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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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Jews Looking Outside Synagogues for New Rituals and Life-Cycle Events
By Sue FishkoffA news article about phenomenon of Jews looking outside of synagogues for p
Date: 06-07-2007 -
Making the World a Better Place Unites Interfaith Couples and Communities
By Rabbi Lev BaeshA rabbi discusses how social action can unite interfaith families with each other and with the Jewish community.
Date: 06-12-2007 -
An Interview with Kirk Douglas
By Golda ShiraProfile of Kirk Douglas at the time of his most recent film about a Jewish family, It Runs in the Family.
Date: 02-18-2007 -
Seeking Acceptance
By Edward Zachary AbleserThe personal narrative of a man in an interfaith family who had planned to get confirmed in his mother’s Catholic Church and become a Bar Mitzvah in his father’s Jewish faith until both ceremonies called off after his rabbi and priest suggeste
Date: 07-20-2007 -
Profile: Novelist and Poet Marge Piercy
By Rahel MusleahProfile of Marge Piercy, a Jewish Renewal writer and poet whose most recent works are featured in The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems With a Jewish Theme.
Date: 02-21-2007 -
Developing a Vision of the Future of Asian-Jewish Families
By Hedi MolnarA new study of intermarriage between Jews and Asians prompts an examination of the status of Asian Jewish families.
Date: 05-27-2009 -
Untitled for Now
By Hana DaleyThe personal narrative of a young woman who learned, after years of studying Judaism and becoming a Bat Mitzvah, that she was not considered Jewish by her Conservative/Orthodox synagogue because her mother wasn’t Jewish.
Date: 07-23-2007 -
Conservative Synagogues Are Welcoming Homes to Interfaith Families
By Ruth Shaw GrossReprinted personal narrative by a Southern Protestant intermarried woman who is raising Jewish children and participating wholeheartedly in a Conservative synagogue community in Eastern Massachusetts
Date: 11-27-2006 -
Intermarried French Comic-Book Writer Creates "The Rabbi's Cat" and Other Wonders
By Lauren ElkinProfile on an intermarried French comic-book writer whose Jewish parents emigrated from Algeria and who uses the comic books he writes to educate Algerians in France about the many years of Jewish-Arab co-existence back in Algeria.
Date: 06-18-2007 -
John Kerry's Jewish Brother
By Sharon LuckermanInterview with Cam Kerry, presidential hopeful John Kerry’s brother, who converted from Catholicism to Judaism and married a Jewish woman.
Date: 02-20-2007
