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1. The official reason for this practice: the tenant of Matrilineal descent exists to ensure that the line of Jewish heritage isn’t broken because you always know who the mother of the child is while the identity of the father can be a bit wishy washy. It also means that Jewish men are more in demand in the community (and outside of it, most of societies male sex symbols like Paul Rudd or Zelensky are Jewish while Jewish women are largely seen as undesirable and the subject of fetishizing, not unlike what you see in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African societies) and the men have to put more effort into staying loyal to the tribe if they don’t want to be excluded. Hell, you can see this very dynamic play out on the Netflix show "Nobody Wants This" which is an autobiographical account of a young Reform (aka the least strict denomination of Judaism) Rabbi that fell in love and married a very blonde, white woman who later converted, much to the chagrin of the Ethnic Jewish woman at the synagogue. Remember, Jews still come from the Middle East and a lot of the dynamics within that community reflects that heritage. In fact, you would find Israel is an incredibly Middle Eastern country if you ever bothered to visit because that’s what happens when Jews are able to develop their own society separate from everyone else (along with the fact that the majority of Jews there are not Ashkenazic either).