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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.
Go To LGBTQ RelationshipsInterview with actor Ben Feldman, son of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother.
Date: 06-18-2007Nate Bloom's column on celebrities with interfaith connections looks at Marc Cuban, Jane Seymour, Kirk Douglas and a night of Jewish comedy at a Chinese restaurant.
Date: 12-11-2007Some are children of interfaith families, some fell in love with Jews, but many converts of color felt drawn to the Jewish people and Judaism because it just seemed to fit them.
Date: 08-11-2008Profile of Jewish actress Alicia Silverstone, the daughter of a Jewish father and Jew-by-choice mother, and who starred in Clueless and her newest film, Love’s Labor’s Lost.
Date: 02-21-2007Interview with film star Rob Schneider about his life and his new film.
Date: 06-18-2007Reprinted news article about FDR’s great-grandson, a child of interfaith parents, who is in Reconstructionist rabbinical school.
Date: 07-27-2006Interview with Susan Schwartz Senstad, author of the book Music for the Third Ear, with special attention to Senstad’s own Jewish identity and her real-life inspiration for the war-torn characters in her book.
Date: 02-21-2007Profile of Geraldo Rivera, a child of intermarriage, who claims he is rediscovering his Jewish roots by marrying a Jewish woman who will be his fifth wife.
Date: 02-18-2007Interview with Natalie Portman who stars in an independent Israeli film called Free Zone about an American girl who falls in love with an Israeli and gets caught up in a car deal in the West Bank.
Date: 02-20-2007Interview with Meryl Streep about her new film Prime, about a mother dealing with her son’s interdating.
Date: 06-18-2007