Is a child Jewish, if the mother marries a Christian? How acceptable is this type of marriage among Jews?

I saw a website where they only considered a person Jewish, if they had two sets of Jewish forefathers. It had to be grandparents and great-grandparents.Is a child Jewish, if the mother marries a Christian? How acceptable is this type of marriage among Jews?
In Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism, the child is considered jewish if either parent is Jewish and the child is raised Jewish.





In most other sects, the child is considered Jewish if the mother is Jewish. For the mother to be Jewish, she must either be a formal convert or have also been born of a Jewish mother. As well, she must not be in apostasy (that is, she must not be engaged in the worship of false deities other than the G-D of whom it is said, Sh'ma YIsrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad -- Hear O Israel, The L-RD is G-D, The L-RD is One). Such apostasy renders any person to be outside the Jewish community.





Inter-religious marriage is strongly frowned upon in ALL sects, though the more liberal sect, the less intense the disapproval will be. Amongst ultra-orthodox and even some orthodox, such a marriage is grounds for exclusion from the community, especially if the children are raised in the other parent's religion. There is a strong historical awareness that those who marry outside the Tribe, as it were, often fall away from their Jewish roots, and the children are often raised in such a way that they do not hold to their Jewish roots.Is a child Jewish, if the mother marries a Christian? How acceptable is this type of marriage among Jews?
Not sure. I'm not familiar enough with Jewish culture to answer that. Having no reason to doubt Adrian's knowledge of Jewish culture, and knowing how frowned on inter-religious marriage is, I would consider he is likely correct.

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No, typically if the mother is Jewish, then the child is Jewish, regardless of the father, even in most orthodox communities.





Many congregations also recognise a child to be Jewish if their father is Jewish, if that child is raised with a Jewish identity. Nearly all mainstream Judaism are also open to serious converts.





Traditionally, it is also the stance that once you are Jewish, either through birth or conversion, regardless of conversion to another religion or atheism you remain Jewish; though American Reform Judaism maintains that someone who has converted to another religion is no longer a Jew.
According to the Jewish law, called Halacha, a child is Jewish if the mother was Jewish at his birth. So, if the mother converted to Judaism before the birth, the child is born Jewish.





A ';marriage'; between a Jewish and a non-Jewish is not considered a marriage.

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