Merissa Nathan Gerson: Arlene, a Filipino, met her Israeli man in the Philippines. “He was traveling, a photo-journalist. He likes to talk. His life was open at once to me,” she said.
“So you fell in love?” I asked.
“Yeah, more or less. It was the right age, the right time. We married two years ago in a civil wedding in the Philippines because we weren’t sure where we would live.
“I don’t plan to convert,” she added. “I am not a practicing Catholic, but I don’t plan to be a practicing Jew either.”