IFF Network

The InterfaithFamily.com Network is a unique advocacy membership association working to build community for interfaith families and to foster a Jewish community that is genuinely open, welcoming and inclusive of interfaith families. For details of the following highlights, visit The Latest News and Advocacy.

• For the third consecutive year, InterfaithFamily.com was named one of North America's most innovative non-profits in Slingshot, a guidebook published by a division of The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies. We are also very pleased to report that we are the recipients of one of eight grants given to Slingshot honorees by a new fund created by young philanthropists. The (New York) Jewish Week  covered the recent announcement.

• Rabbi Lev Baesh and the Resource Center for Jewish Clergy was featured in an article in The (Boston) Jewish Advocate.

• President and Publisher Ed Case was quoted in Reaching Out to Interfaith Families in Ha'aretz, an Israeli daily newspaper.

• "Consider Yourself Part of the Family," an op-ed by Online Managing Editor Micah Sachs, was published in the New Jersey Jewish News. Sachs was also quoted in a story on a Jewish dating service in The (Charleston, S.C.) Post & Courier.

• We are very pleased to welcome Rabbi Lev Baesh as the first director of our Resource Center for Jewish Clergy. Read more in JTA's story. Rabbi Baesh started Monday, July 9.

• We are grateful to The Skirball Foundation for a new $100,000 grant for general operating support payable over four years.

• "8 Tips for Planning and Inclusive Interfaith/Multi-Cultural Wedding," by Micah Sachs, was published in the June 2007 issue of New England Bride. Also, JTA's brief on our hiring of Rabbi Lev Beash was published by the (Minneapolis) American Jewish World, Washington Jewish Week, j., the Jewish news weekly of northern California, and the (Providence, R.I.) Jewish Voice & Herald, among other publications. President and Publisher Ed Case was also featured in a Q&A with the Connecticut Jewish Ledger.

We welcome your input by email to network@interfaithfamily.com.