Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2009
Yesterday a white supremacist walked into the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and shot a security guard, who died of his wounds. This past month, the FBI arrested men who were plotting to blow up synagogues in the Bronx in New York. It feels like a scary time to announce to the world that we […]
Posted in Friends of IFF, Intermarriage, Uncategorized on Apr 28th, 2009
New Voices, the National Jewish Student Magazine published a well-reported story on The Coming of the Intermarried Rabbi, mainly about David Curiel, a friend of ours. Curiel forwarded us the URL to the article. Here’s an excerpt:
His path to rabbinical school was roundabout indeed. It started in 2003, when he met Amberly Polidor, who […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2009
I went to a fascinating “conversation” last night between Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, the president of Hebrew College, and Noah Feldman, the Harvard Law School professor and frequent New York Times contributor. Feldman’s July 2007 New York Times magazine article about the reaction of his modern Orthodox community’s reaction to his intermarriage was the subject of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 2nd, 2009
I posted last week to wish everyone Happy Shrove Tuesday! Happy Mardi Gras! and mentioned the city we all associate with that Catholic holiday, New Orleans. A reader wrote to update me about how things are going in New Orleans from his perspective as member of one of the city’s old Jewish families. I’m going […]
Posted in Shabbat and Other Holidays, Parenting, Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2009
It has been awhile since I blogged about my adventures with my almost 2-year-old son, Ariel. I am happy to report that Ariel and I have been taking a Friday morning class together. We are taking Shabbat in a Box, a class sponsored by the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston’s (JCCGB) PJ Library. The […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2009
I really liked Leyna Krow’s shorter version of my post on the Jew-ish.com blog out of Seattle.
Today, Ha’aretz ran the story that the Vatican spoke officially against Williamson’s Holocaust denial. (Hat tip to Rebecca Lesses.) I think this is going to unfold in some interesting ways for Catholics and Jews.
By a weird coincidence, the day after I […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2009
Today is Martin Luther King Day and I am thinking how amazing it is that tomorrow, a President with an African father and a white mother from the American Midwest will be sworn into office. I have to admit that I am a little bummed out to be in the office this week and not […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2009
There’s a new journal out called The Muslim Jewish Journal. I’m always on the lookout for things that might be helpful to people in interfaith Muslim-Jewish families–let me know whether this is one of those things! Thanks for the hat tip from the blog Jews, Christians and Muslims Working Together.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2008
Ellyn Bache, author of eight novels including Safe Passage, which was made into a movie with Susan Sarandon, sent us an email yesterday. She’s put Holiday Miracles, a novella she wrote about Christmas and Hanukkah in an interfaith family, on the web as a downloadable .pdf file. We put a link to the book at […]
Posted in Popular Culture, The Rest of the World, Musings, Intermarriage, Conversion, Uncategorized on Nov 3rd, 2008
If you are like me, you are getting ready to stay up all night tomorrow, watching the election returns. I do not remember an election in my adult life that seemed as important to the United States’ future.
As Americans debate the politics of the election, some are debating another matter. Some bloggers claimed to have […]
