It's impossible to stop being Jewish even if you marry a Hindu, or for that matter a Church of England ordinand.
The rules in Judaism aren't enforced, you follow them because you think they are the Right Thing to Do. As with anything, there may be informal social sanctions if you don't follow the rules but, depending upon what jewish communities you move in, even those can be pretty weak and can be avoided by keeping what you're doing secret. For most Christians and Jews there isn't much of a Big Brother (other than G@d) checking what they're doing. For example, no one's checking whether Alec and I have sex, most of our friends probably think we're already at it like rabbits, but it's important to Alec to try to work out whether G@d wants him to have sex. Similarly, many gay Christians and Jews want to come to an honest opinion about whether G@d wants them to have sex and try to follow it. I think this is something that non-religious people sometimes have trouble understanding.
This isn't so true with clergy. Currently CofE clergy have to agree to follow the Windsor report that says that clergy are allowed to have same sex partners as long as the a celebate (a leave exactly what that means open to interpretation). CofE clergy are allowed to have non-Christian partners but have to get special permissio to marry a divorcee.
Currently there are no rabbinic colleges that will accept candidates with non-Jewish partners. Generally most rabbinic colleges expect their students to abide by roughly what their movement thinks a Good Jew should be doing, presumably because their supposed to be setting an example.
I think you've got mixed up between rabbis and cohenim. Rabbis are the people shepherding congregations. Cohenim are the people who would be preists in the temple if we still had a temple. I think the rules about who cohens can marry are mainly based upon some kind of idea that cohens should only marry virgins and divorcees and converts are assumed to not be virgins.
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The rules in Judaism aren't enforced, you follow them because you think they are the Right Thing to Do. As with anything, there may be informal social sanctions if you don't follow the rules but, depending upon what jewish communities you move in, even those can be pretty weak and can be avoided by keeping what you're doing secret. For most Christians and Jews there isn't much of a Big Brother (other than G@d) checking what they're doing. For example, no one's checking whether Alec and I have sex, most of our friends probably think we're already at it like rabbits, but it's important to Alec to try to work out whether G@d wants him to have sex. Similarly, many gay Christians and Jews want to come to an honest opinion about whether G@d wants them to have sex and try to follow it. I think this is something that non-religious people sometimes have trouble understanding.
This isn't so true with clergy. Currently CofE clergy have to agree to follow the Windsor report that says that clergy are allowed to have same sex partners as long as the a celebate (a leave exactly what that means open to interpretation). CofE clergy are allowed to have non-Christian partners but have to get special permissio to marry a divorcee.
Currently there are no rabbinic colleges that will accept candidates with non-Jewish partners. Generally most rabbinic colleges expect their students to abide by roughly what their movement thinks a Good Jew should be doing, presumably because their supposed to be setting an example.
I think you've got mixed up between rabbis and cohenim. Rabbis are the people shepherding congregations. Cohenim are the people who would be preists in the temple if we still had a temple. I think the rules about who cohens can marry are mainly based upon some kind of idea that cohens should only marry virgins and divorcees and converts are assumed to not be virgins.