Leaving the Fold: Intermarriage

Nisson Wolpin

1984

[Introduction]

The Torah views the defection of one single Jewish soul from Judaism as the ultimate tragedy, for is not “one solitary Jewish life an entire world”? And an intermarriage is nothing short of a full-fledged defection—jumping fully into an alien life: “And you will marry their daughters…and worship their gods” (Shemos XXVII, 17). The…

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Nisson Wolpin

1932–2017

Nisson Wolpin was born and raised in Seattle. He was a rabbi and editor of the Jewish Observer, the monthly journal of Agudath Israel of America, exploring the world of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Wolpin edited a number of volumes containing collections of articles from this journal.

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