"Faith does not 'need to expand'." Sorry, let me clarify: I'm not calling for the Jewish faith to proselytize around the world and try to seek converts. Judais

"Faith does not 'need to expand'." Sorry, let me clarify: I'm not calling for the Jewish faith to proselytize around the world and try to seek converts. Judaism doesn't need to go viral. Rather, I'm saying that Judaism's numbers have historically been threatened, and strict bans on (or at least strong stigmatization of) marriage outside the faith is self limiting. If I'm a Jewish man and I want to marry a gentile woman, why shouldn't my children be considered Jewish, provided I raise them in a Jewish tradition, culture, and set of values? Why should we intentionally threaten the preservation of the worldwide Jewry by placing such a limitation on organic growth? When I say "growth," I'm not talking about expansion, per se; I'm talking about being able to maintain the numbers at a rate faster than they can decline. "That's why there are few Jews, but they own the world." I'm not going to touch this sort of comment, sorry.