Mission & Activities

InterfaithFamily.com, Inc. is the online resource for interfaith families exploring Jewish life and the grass-roots advocate for a welcoming Jewish community. This resource is for everyone touched by interfaith relationships where one partner is Jewish, on every topic of interest to them, and for everyone who works with and cares about them.

 Listen to President and Publisher Ed Case explain the Mission and Activities 

Mission

InterfaithFamily.com empowers interfaith families to make Jewish choices for themselves and their children, and encourages the Jewish community to welcome interfaith families. We believe that maximizing the number of interfaith families who find fulfillment in Jewish life and raise their children as Jews is essential to the future strength and vitality of the Jewish community. Through our website, and other programs, we provide useful educational information and resources, connect interfaith families to each other and to local Jewish communities, and advocate for inclusive attitudes, policies and practices.

History

The online magazine InterfaithFamily.com was launched in November 1998 by Jewish Family & Life!, a leading provider of Jewish media. Edmund Case became the publisher of the magazine in May 1999. In 2001 Ed acquired the magazine and founded the independent non-profit InterfaithFamily.com, Inc. to better serve the needs of interfaith families. Following the acquisition, the website was expanded to offer additional resources and an advocacy membership association was created.

Activities

Content and Resources

InterfaithFamily.com produces the only Jewish resources and content in the world, either online or in print, that reach out directly to interfaith families. We deliver helpful, non-judgmental information and a warm welcome that can be accessed privately, at any time convenient to the user. Prior to November 2007, when we started publishing content on a daily basis, we published nearly 200 issues of a bi-weekly web magazine and our Article Archive contains more than 1,600 articles. We also conduct surveys and offer tips for handling various situations, downloadable guides to life-cycle ceremonies, directories and other resources. InterfaithFamily.com also produced the first-of-its-kind anthology, The Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life: An InterfaithFamily.com Handbook (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2001), to offer much-needed resources for interfaith families seeking to explore Jewish life. We also provide resources for outreach professionals through our Resource Center for Program Providers.

Resource Page: interfaithfamily.com/resources

Articles: interfaithfamily.com/ix.php

Connections

InterfaithFamily.com makes connections between interfaith families, outreach professionals, programs and rabbis in a variety of ways. The Connections In Your Area section of our website lists current, updated information about more than 340 programs and organizations in local Jewish communities throughout North America that welcome the participation of interfaith families. Our online discussions allow readers to support and inform each other by sharing their experiences.

Connections in Your Area: interfaithfamily.com/connections

Discussion boards: interfaithfamily.com/discussions

Advocacy

The InterfaithFamily.com Network is a grass-roots advocacy association working to foster a Jewish community that is genuinely open, welcoming and inclusive--one that understands, and is sensitive to, the realities of intermarriage and today's interfaith families, and encourages their Jewish choices. The Network advocates for attitudes, policies and practices that Jewish organizations and leaders can use to engage and include interfaith families within the Jewish community.

www.interfaithfamily.com/network