Article Archive

Bar and Bat Mitzvah

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  • Jews Looking Outside Synagogues for New Rituals and Life-Cycle Events

    By Sue Fishkoff

    A 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 Baesh

    A 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 Shira

    Profile 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 Ableser

    The 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 Musleah

    Profile 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 Molnar

    A 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 Daley

    The 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 Gross

    Reprinted 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 Elkin

    Profile 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 Luckerman

    Interview with Cam Kerry, presidential hopeful John Kerry’s brother, who converted from Catholicism to Judaism and married a Jewish woman.

    Date: 02-20-2007

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