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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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Interfaith Weddings
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When Life Gets in the Way of Planning a Wedding
By Faye Rapoport DesPresPersonal narrative of a Jewish woman who remarried a French Canadian man in her 40s, and the personal obstacles they faced in putting the wedding together.
Date: 06-18-2007 -
Whose Life Is It Anyway?: Officiating at an Intermarriage
By Rabbi Paul H. LevensonProfessional view by rabbi presenting a typical scenario that occurs when an interfaith couple approaches him asking that he marry them.
Date: 08-17-2006 -
Counseling Interfaith Couples Who Want Me to Marry Them
By Rev. Yvonne V. SchaudtProfessional 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: 11-14-2006 -
Once Was Not Enough: Why We Had Three Weddings
By Bonni GoldbergPersonal 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: 07-18-2006 -
On Becoming a Justice of the Peace
By Elise KleinPersonal 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: 06-23-2006 -
Beyond the December Dilemma: I Do!
By Howard LovyPersonal narrative in which engaged couple negotiates over what kind of ceremony and officiant to have. She, an agnostic, wants no mention of God. He, a Jew, wants a rabbi and a Jewish wedding ceremony. They find a "Humanist-leaning rabbi"
Date: 07-18-2006 -
Picture This: Old Photographs, New Life
By Heather SubbaPersonal narrative from a Jewish woman reflecting on her Jewish past and her interfaith future with her Nepalese Hindu husband.
Date: 06-18-2007 -
Rabbi Takes an Inventive Approach to Intermarriage
By Judie JacobsonReprint 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: 08-11-2006 -
Our Most Challenging Interfaith Topic: What Religion Would Our Children Have?
By Jim KeenPersonal narrative article about the process a couple went through after getting engaged, for two years before they married, trying to decide in what religion to raise their children.
Date: 07-18-2006 -
From My Perspective: How Joining a Parents of Interfaith Children Group Helped Me
By Bobbie FriedmanPersonal narrative about how a support group helped a parent deal with her mixed feelings about her daughter’s engagement. The group helped her feel she was not alone and strengthened her communication with her daughter. Date: 11-14-2006
