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5. On paper, anyway. I know his mom pretty well, but I've never met him.

If he's as "Jewish" as his mom, he won't take it all too seriously, but there is a big family involved, so that may not necessarily hold. The dynamic of a big extended family can get involved. I know there was a rabbi at their wedding, but that may have been for the benefit of some of the family members. I guess it's possible he "got religion" in the meantime, and maybe he's had it all along, but like I said, I've never met him.

I have been to exactly one "interfaith" wedding where the groom was of Jewish ancestry and the bride was Catholic. The priest talked for a tolerable five minutes, and the rabbi talked for about 45 minutes, and was so boring that I think that half the audience was ready to convert to Catholicism just to get him to shut up. I was best man, so I know the groom was ready to scream "shut up already!"

When I got married, it was a double wedding with my atheist parents, my wife's Catholic parents, and my brother's Shinto Buddhist in-laws. We had the wedding on neutral ground (a Unitarian church in Arlington, VA), and no harsh words were heard anywhere. Not bad, when you consider that forty years prior to the wedding, they would have been following orders by shooting at each other.