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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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Bar and Bat Mitzvah
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Bar & Bat Mitzvahs For The Interfaith Family
This beautiful booklet will explain the wonderful milestone marking adulthood, the bar mitzvah (for a boy) or bat mitzvah (for a girl), a life cycle event taking place at the age of 13.
Date: 05-29-2012 -
A Secular Humanist Bat Mitzvah in Israel
By Rabbi Nardy GrunHow one American family celebrated their daughter's bat mitzvah in Israel, found meaning and connected to history.
Date: 08-16-2012 -
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 -
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 -
Shuls Face Hard Questions about Non-Jews
By Ami EdenA news article about the role non-Jewish members of interfaith families are playing at many of today’s Conservative synagogues.
Date: 06-12-2007 -
The Best of InterfaithFamily.com: Our Picks
By InterfaithFamilyCompilation of InterfaithFamily.com's staff's selections for their favorite articles from 1998-2006.
Date: 07-17-2007 -
Rabbis Grapple with Interfaith Inclusion
By Debra Nussbaum CohenA news article discussing the roles of non-Jewish parents in their child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah at Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist synagogues.
Date: 08-22-2007 -
Making From Generation to Generation Meaningful for ALL Grandparents
By Eve CoulsonPersonal narrative about a grandparent who supported her daughter's choice to not only raise her children in a different religion (Judaism), but also to choose Judaism for herself.
Date: 08-17-2006 -
On Patrilineal Descent: An Informed Reform Jew's Lament
By Robert LappinOpinion piece from a Reform congregant who is upset over new Reform guidelines that define a Jew not by lineage, but rather by life cycle events and Jewish communal participation.
Date: 07-25-2006 -
Lily's Bat Mitzvah
By Daniel BenderA man’s personal narrative about the Jewish community in Honolulu and on his daughter’s two-part Bat Mitzvah-- one in Hawaii with flower leis and Japanese drummers and the other in Maine with bagels and lox.
Date: 06-18-2007
