Relationships
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 RelationshipsReview of Average Joe: Adam Returns, about a pool of women vying to win over a Jewish bachelor.
Date: 02-15-2007Profile of Jewish screenwriter John Hamburg who wrote Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, and Along Came Polly, and who is currently in an interfaith relationship.
Date: 02-20-2007Our celebrity columnist loves the new schlub comedies of Judd Apatow and John Hamburg, and is surprised that Lindsay Lohan seems interested in conversion to Judaism.
Date: 03-16-2009Nate Bloom's column on celebrities with interfaith connections looks at Madonna, Shia LaBeouf (again!), Julianna Margulies and Scott Schoeneweis.
Date: 12-21-2007Review of Late Marriage, a film by Dover Kosashvili, which explores relationships between men and women, parents and children, and Georgian and Algerian Jews in Israel.
Date: 02-13-2007Profile of Mare Winningham, actress best-known for her role in St. Elmo’s Fire, singer and Jew-by-choice.
Date: 08-13-2007Review of Guiding Light, a daytime drama that tells the ongoing story of a pair of interfaith lovers--a Jewish woman and a non-Jewish man.
Date: 02-15-2007Reprinted news article about the film The Passion of the Christ and how it was received by different groups in various European countries.
Date: 07-20-2006Review of the Israeli film A Trumpet in the Wadi about a romance between a Christian-Arab woman and a Jewish man.
Date: 01-22-2007Interview with Bonnie Burt, director of documentaries A Home on the Range: The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma and Song of a Jewish Cowboy.
Date: 05-03-2007