Posted in Passover, Friends of IFF on Apr 22nd, 2008
Consider this a belated cleaning of online hametz:
Julie Wiener recently wrote about the growth of local Mothers’ Circle chapters for the Wall Street Journal. The Mothers Circle, a program for non-Jewish women raising Jewish children, now has chapters in 26 communities.
Wiener also wrote a great pre-Passover piece for AP on Passover food and how strange […]
Posted in December holidays, IFF in the news, Friends of IFF on Dec 6th, 2007
It’s the first week of December which means only one thing: TV shows and newspapers are flooded with stories on the “December dilemma.”
Yesterday morning, the Today Show had a segment featuring Jewish-Christian couples and advice from Rev. Sherri Hauser, of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, and Rabbi Irwin Kula, best known for his recent book Yearnings: […]
Posted in Friends of IFF on Aug 31st, 2007
We’re based in Newton, Mass., and receive great support from Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston’s Jewish federation. One of our biggest fans is Barry Shrage, executive director of CJP. So admittedly I’m a bit biased, but this article in Ha’aretz about Shrage’s recent sabbatical in Jerusalem shows that Shrage “gets it” in a way that […]
Posted in Friends of IFF on Jul 24th, 2007
JTA published a story today on the death of Sherwin Wine, the founder of Humanistic Judaism.
In many ways, Wine injected an honesty into the practice of Judaism that had been missing prior to his arrival. While many Jews don’t believe in God (certainly more than believe in the Torah as the word of God), the […]
Posted in Friends of IFF on Jul 23rd, 2007
We just found out that Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder of the Society for Humanistic Judaism, died on Saturday in a car accident while on vacation in Morocco. Secular Humanistic Judaism has consistently been an extraordinarily friendly place for interfaith families to explore Judaism.
Our sincerest condolences to his family and loved ones.
Posted in Outreach, Popular culture, Friends of IFF on Jan 17th, 2007
While many critics doubt whether the children of intermarriage will identify as Jewish over the long term, at IFF we constantly run into examples of children from mixed marriages who identify as Jewish.
Two interesting recent examples include:
Ashley Tisdale, who was in the hit Disney film High School Musical. According to the Detroit Jewish News:
Ashley’s Mother, […]
Posted in Parenting/raising children, December holidays, Outreach, IFF in the news, Statistics, Friends of IFF, Intermarriage on Dec 14th, 2006
As we had hoped, the authors of the 2005 Greater Boston Jewish Community Study responded to the op-ed by Steven Cohen, Jack Ukeles and Ron Miller questioning the findings of the Boston study. Their letter in today’s Forward is short and sweet but makes an essential point: unlike the demographic studies of Ukeles and Miller, […]
Posted in Interdating, Friends of IFF, Intermarriage, Conversion on Oct 27th, 2006
Some links for y’all:
Sue Fishkoff’s Hadassah magazine package on converting non-Jewish spouses is now available online. It includes quotes from IFF President and Publisher Ed Case.
For several years, I was a loyal reader of Jewsweek.com, which was founded by Binyamin Cohen. But when Cohen left Jewsweek to help start up Atlanta Jewish Life–which is easily […]
Posted in Interdating, Outreach, IFF in the news, Friends of IFF, Intermarriage, Conversion on Oct 12th, 2006
A little catch-up on some relevant stories from the last two weeks or so:
The j., the Jewish news weekly of Northern California has another great intermarriage-related article. It’s a feature on an interfaith discussion group led by Helena McMahon, who runs Interfaith Connection in San Francisco. Founded 20 years ago, Interfaith Connection is one of […]
Posted in Friends of IFF, Intermarriage on Sep 13th, 2006
It appears that we’re not the only ones interested in Muslim-Jewish relationships.
Ha’aretz recently published this story about the wedding of Hadar Harris, a Jewish human rights lawyer, and Rahim Sabir, a Moroccan Muslim who was one of the United Nations’ first human rights observers in Darfur. This follows a New York Times story about […]
