Posted in IFF in the news on Dec 13th, 2007
Allow us to gloat: a week after making the New York Times, we were featured in a front-page story in the Boston Globe. Philanthropic Shift: Young Jewish donors go beyond traditional groups, by Sacha Pfeiffer, focuses on efforts by 20- and 30-something Jewish philanthropists to give money to different causes and organizations than their parents […]
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 Interfaith identity, Outreach, Popular culture, IFF in the news on Nov 30th, 2007
So I have to apologize for the long layoff. Thanksgiving, combined with site overhaul business and preparing our report on the 2007 December holidays survey, has kept me away from the blogosphere for several weeks. I make no promises of a return to daily blogging until 2008, but here’s a grab bag of goodies that […]
Posted in Passover, IFF in the news, Statistics on Apr 9th, 2007
I was going to write about some other things today–namely, a new JTA article on the conversion of patrilineal Jews–but when your organization gets mentioned in the New York Times, everything else becomes a second priority.
Sam Freedman, author of Jew vs. Jew, wrote a column about an interfaith couple where both partners are committed […]
Posted in Passover, Parenting/raising children, IFF in the news on Mar 27th, 2007
Sue Fishkoff calls it “April aggravation.” We call it the “spring situation.” Whatever you call it, there’s something to it. It’s the annual conflict between Easter and Passover in interfaith families, and the JTA’s Fishkoff has written a story about our survey of interfaith families juggling the two holidays.
The survey specifically looked at interfaith families […]
Posted in IFF in the news on Jan 19th, 2007
Amy Klein has a terrific article in the current edition of the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles that features InterfaithFamily.com and some of our writers. The title, “Jewish parent + Christian parent = Jewish kids,” expresses our organization’s mission better than we’ve been able to do ourselves! Along with Julie Wiener’s (New York) […]
Posted in IFF in the news on Jan 12th, 2007
On Tuesday of next week, we’re publishing the 200th issue of our Web Magazine. It also happens to coincide almost exactly with our fifth anniversary as an independent non-profit. For a history of the organization–and an explanation of the differences between the anniversaries–here’s the article we’re going to run next week on our history and […]
Posted in Popular culture, IFF in the news, Intermarriage on Jan 8th, 2007
Chabad has a story on its website arguing that despite the recent studies showing the American Jewish population has grown, Steven Cohen’s recent study on intermarriage demonstrates that Jews should do everything they can to prevent intermarriage.
While many people in the organized Jewish community are suspicious of Chabad, I am quite sympathetic to their approach, […]
Posted in December holidays, Parenting/raising children, IFF in the news on Dec 19th, 2006
For the first time in the three-year history of doing our December holidays survey, JTA has done an entire story about the survey! Frankly, I can’t say enough about what a terrific piece of reporting Sue Fishkoff did. It presents the survey results in a balanced, nuanced, contextual light, and is clear about the survey’s […]
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, […]
