<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Eli Turkel via Avodah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"></span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">Later in history Ezra fought against the prevelant custom of marrying nonJewish women.</span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">see also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith_marriage_in_Judaism" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith_marriage_in_Judaism</a></span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">Eli<br></span></font><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">So was the switch to matrilineal descent from a takana Ezra or before?<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>