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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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Interviews and Profiles
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Ben Feldman's Jewish Background Aids Acting Career
By Eric FingerhutInterview with actor Ben Feldman, son of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother.
Date: 06-18-2007 -
Interfaith Celebrities: Dancing with the Stars of David
By Nate BloomNate 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: 12-11-2007 -
Converts On The True Colors Of The Jewish Community
By Aliza HausmanSome 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: 08-11-2008 -
Profile of Alicia Silverstone--Daughter of Scottish Mom and Jewish Dad
By Ivor DavisProfile 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: 02-21-2007 -
A Conversation with Rob Schneider
By Naomi PfeffermanInterview with film star Rob Schneider about his life and his new film.
Date: 06-18-2007 -
Rabbi With A Pedigree: Reconstructionist Rabbinic Student Is a Direct Descendant of FDR
By Gabrielle BirknerReprinted news article about FDR’s great-grandson, a child of interfaith parents, who is in Reconstructionist rabbinical school.
Date: 07-27-2006 -
Never Again? An Interview with Susan Schwartz Senstad, Author of Music for the Third Ear
By Rebecca E. KotkinInterview 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: 02-21-2007 -
Do the Jews "Need" Geraldo?
By Joe BerkofskyProfile 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: 02-18-2007 -
Israeli-Born Natalie Portman Stars
By Dan BaronInterview 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: 02-20-2007 -
In Prime, Streep's Jewish Mother Frets over Her Son's Interfaith Dating
By Amy KleinInterview with Meryl Streep about her new film Prime, about a mother dealing with her son’s interdating.
Date: 06-18-2007
