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While there is evidence that interfaith marriage has existed since biblical times, the Jewish solution to “marrying out” has long been conversion of the non-Jewish spouse. As Jews acquired more rights, both through post-Enlightenment emancipation and through colonization of the Americas, more Jews began to marry non-Jews, a move which was part of an assimilation into the dominant culture. When, in the late twentieth century, interfaith marriage rates began to climb at unprecedented rates, the Jewish community began serious outreach to interfaith couples, though that outreach often reflected communal concerns more than the needs of the couples.