Izzy Feldman, Israeli-American IT specialist, speaks about the attitudes towards intermarriage that he inherited from his family, who would hypothetically sit shiva (mourning after a family member has died) if one of the children married a non-Jew, and passed on to his children. It may not be rational, he explains, but after a history of oppression and violence, Jewish continuity is a main concern for him.

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