While I'?m glad that the Rabbi pierced the PC template of the Today Show, there are PLENTY of marriages around that survive and flourish when the husband "is one thing", the wife "is another thing"?, and hence the child or children
are "a third thing". In those cases the entire family becomes "the third thing". The key to ALL of it is whether the religious backgrounds held by the parents are the be-all and end=all of personal and family life. OF COURSE it wouldn't work if the Christian husband and Jewish wife, (or vice-versa) are perfectly settled with compromising their faiths with one another, but choose to use the child as a battleground for exacerbating what they thought were comfortably compromised issues held by one another. The rabbi, of course, finds all these questions TERRIBLY IMPORTANT IN AND OF THEMSELVES, as I DO NOT. So maybe that'/s the real problem. OF course, the REAL problems are trying to combine ISLAM with just about anything else.
The rabbi really didn't say interfaith marriages don't work. He objected to the idea of raising a child to think he was both religions, which he rightly rejected, IMO, as being illogical.