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 RelationshipsA news article about new policy in a Reform synagogue in Dayton, Ohio, that allows interfaith marriages to take place in the sanctuary as long as the rabbi, who will not perform intermarriages, approves the ceremony, and as long as no non-Jewish symbol
Date: 07-05-2007Professional view by rabbi presenting a typical scenario that occurs when an interfaith couple approaches him asking that he marry them.
Date: 08-17-2006Professional view by a minister discussing how she immediately hurls the hard questions--conversion and children--at interfaith couples who want her to marry them because she believes that these questions are essential to work out before
Date: 11-14-2006Personal narrative in which intermarried woman describes her three weddings: one before a judge, with no guests, one with her family, and one with their friends.
Date: 07-18-2006Personal narrative from a director of an outreach program about how she became a justice of the peace and officiated at a moving wedding between an Orthodox Jewish man and an Irish-Catholic man.
Date: 06-23-2006News article about a decision by Washington Hebrew Congregation, the country’s third-largest Reform synagogue, to allow its rabbis to officiate at intermarriages.
Date: 11-15-2006Reprint news article about a rabbi who agrees to allow certain others to perform intermarriages in his synagogue, under certain conditions, even though he himself won’t perform them.
Date: 08-11-2006A personal narrative from a Catholic woman who felt so at home in her Reconstructionist synagogue that she decided to convert.
Date: 02-26-2007Reprinted news and general information article about the frustrations of liberal and secular Israelis at Israel’s stringent marriage laws. There are no civil unions in Israel, and only Orthodox ceremonies constitute legal marriages,
Date: 11-27-2006News article on the difficulties faced by Reform rabbis who won’t officiate at intermarriages when trying to find a pulpit.
Date: 08-24-2007