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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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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 -
Taking the Gloss Off of "Shiksa Toes"
By Dan FriedmanA personal narrative about female converts to Judaism feeling forever as outsiders, and specifically about the prevalent use of the sexist, prejudiced word "Shiksa", which Jews often use to refer to non-Jewish women.
Date: 06-11-2007 -
Finding Their Voice: Jews of Color Are Slowly Putting Their Concerns on the Communal Agenda
By Debra Nussbaum CohenThe story of African-American Jews-by-choice and the prejudice they often receive from people in the Jewish community.
Date: 06-18-2007 -
Enough is Enough
By Micah SachsEdmund Case and Micah Sachs respond to Eric Yoffie’s call for conversion and Sylvia Barack Fishman’s flawed study on converts.
Date: 04-05-2007 -
How Marrying A Protestant Minister Made Me A Better Jew
By Emily BlankThe personal narrative of a woman who became a cantor after deciding to learn more about Judaism when she began dating a man studying to be a minister.
Date: 06-07-2007 -
Confessions of a Non-Jewish Insider
By John BlumersThe personal narrative of a Presbyterian man who chose to embrace the plan of raising his children Jewish by searching for what made Judaism meaningful to him.
Date: 07-19-2007 -
Ger Toshav - Sources for Contemporary Application: A Proposal for Intermarried and other Allies in our Midst
By Rabbi Geela Rayzel RaphaelProfessional view supporting the resurrection of the concept of ger toshav--an in-between title that non-Jews who are active and committed Jewishly, yet who do not want to convert, could study and achieve.
Date: 07-28-2006 -
Welcoming Non-Jewish Spouses and Converts to Judaism
By Rabbi Eric YoffeProfessional view from rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, saying that the Reform movement needs to both honor non-Jewish partners raising Jewish children and to invite them to convert.
Date: 07-26-2006 -
What Leads Children of Intermarriage to Identify as Jews?
By Ron LuxNews story on the factors that lead adult children of intermarriage to identify as Jews.
Date: 07-09-2007 -
We Should Learn From Esther, Who Married Outside Her Community to Save Her People
By Sarah FlickerReprinted personal narrative about a young Jewish woman whose Buddhist boyfriend felt uncomfortable in traditional Jewish institutions, so she started her own, "The Progressive Jewish Circle" in Toronto, which is "welcoming, creat
Date: 07-31-2006
