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I Chose a Non-Jew--and the Non-Jew Chose JudaismBy Lyssa Friedman
A personal narrative of a woman whose partner converted to Judaism while she remained conflicted.
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It's Chrismukkah Time... Again
By Cheryl F. CoonReview of Chrismukkah: Everything You Need to Know to Celebrate The Hybrid Holiday, Ron Gompertz’s new book on blended rituals for interfaith families.
Date: 12-18-2006 -
The Autograph Man: A Novel about Growing Up with a Jewish Mother and a Chinese Father
By Susan Katz MillerReview of Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man: A Novel about Growing Up with a Jewish Mother and a Chinese Father, about a child of interfaith marriage that struggles with a multiracial and multicultural identity.
Date: 12-21-2006 -
High Holiday Children's Books for Interfaith Families
By Abby SpottsReview of several children's books for the High Holidays.
Date: 09-04-2007 -
Profile of Anita Diamant
By Rahel MusleahProfile of Anita Diamant, author of The Red Tent and how she perceives her female characters in this now-famous novel.
Date: 02-21-2007 -
Peeking Behind the Church Doors
By Cheryl F. CoonReview of the following children’s books: What You Will See Inside a Catholic Church, What You Will See Inside a Mosque, What You Will See Inside a Synagogue and What You Will See Inside a Hindu Temple.
Date: 09-26-2006 -
Portrait of a Young Woman in Search of Her Authentic Self: Review of Rebecca Walker's Black White and Jewish
By Marlena ThompsonReview of Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker, a memoir about her mult-racial and interfaith upbringing.
Date: 01-18-2007 -
The Whys and Wherefores of Being Jewish: Review of The Jewish Book of Why
By Marlena ThompsonReview of The Jewish Book of Why, by Alfred J. Kolatch, a compendium of questions and answers regarding Jewish customs, culture, and spirituality.
Date: 01-20-2007 -
Will America's Loving Embrace Lead to the End of Judaism?
By Jonathan GronerReview of Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry by Samuel G. Freedman, a recent history of the fall of the ethnic Eastern-European collective Jewish identity, and what Judaism looks like in America today.
Date: 01-20-2007 -
Hipster Dad in Yuppieland
By Alizah SalarioReview of Alternadad, Neal Pollack’s irreverent memoir on finding a balance between staying hip and being a good dad.
Date: 05-18-2007 -
Judaism and Christianity: A New Framework for Mutual Understanding
By Marlena ThompsonReview of a book that looks at differences and similarities between Christianity and Judaism.
Date: 09-21-2006
