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 RelationshipsReserch of the Jewish Outreach Institute which shows that being in interfaith relationships often sends people on their spiritual journeys.
Date: 06-07-2007Resolution from California Reform rabbis group criticizing the national Reform movement’s decision to cut outreach budgets and staff in 2003.
Date: 08-30-2007News story about how multicultural Jews are using Facebook as a way to connect.
Date: 08-20-2007No one else is addressing the issues. Our interfaith groups are covering topics other synagogue groups are not, so in-married families also attend.
Date: 04-16-2010Why doesn't the Jewish community reach out to us in the same way that it reaches out to interfaith couples? My story--and the story of the Half-Jewish Network-- may hold some clues.
Date: 09-19-2008A multicultural and multiracial Jewish group in Washington, D.C. offers its first Rosh Hashanah services in the restored century-old Sixth and I synagogue building.
Date: 10-29-2008An opinion/editorial article discussing what makes a couple "interfaith" and how their children should be taught religion.
Date: 06-12-2007Jewish mourning practices can be psychologically helpful to people who have lost parents, even when those parents aren't Jewish.
Date: 04-30-2010Dr. Dale speaks with intermarried couples about the issues they had to solve before they married and she speaks with a rabbi who works with many interfaith couples.
Date: 08-07-2007News story about the PJ Library, a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation that sends Jewish children's books to families with young children.
Date: 11-28-2007