When my husband read an early draft of this essay, he asked, "Why doesn't her partner have to support our daughter? After all, they agreed to raise children as Jews." What does it mean to raise a Jewish child?
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If the Book of Ruth, text customarily studied on Shavuot, were written with today's interfaith couples in mind...
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What were you taught about your LGBTQ heritage? Kick off Boston Pride Week with a retelling of the story of LGBTQ liberation using the Passover Seder model. June 1st, Boston, MA.
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Supporting rabbis and cantors looking to engage interfaith couples and families in their communities and help them make a stronger connection with Judaism.
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Go To BlogsPersonal narrative about a grandparent who chooses to accept her children’s choices and make the best of it.
Date: 12-05-2006Personal narrative from a Jewish woman recalling her thoughts and feelings when her son informed her that his children would not be raised as Jews.
Date: 12-06-2006Professional view on how to be "the Jewish grandparents" of children from an interfaith family, including sending holiday treats, watching Jewish-themed movies, and doing special projects.
Date: 12-05-2006Personal narrative from an intermarried man whose Jewish identity came through his bubbie’s (grandmother’s) Yiddish songs and culture, and when she died, he and his non-Jewish wife founded the Dora Teteilboim Center for Yiddish Culture.
Date: 11-21-2006Personal narrative by the mother of an intermarried son expressing her love and thanks to him and his wife for their religious decision to raise their two daughters as Jews.
Date: 12-05-2006Personal narrative from a Jewish grandma who was nonobservant but wants her intermarried daughter to have her kids bar mitzvahed.
Date: 11-27-2006Personal narrative from a Jewish grandma describing her grandsons’ quesions about God.
Date: 12-06-2006Personal narrative by the mother of an intermarried son, describing her love and appreciation for the couple’s choice to raise a Jewish family.
Date: 12-06-2006Personal narrative about a woman who was intermarried (and is since divorced), who raised her children as Jews, describing her anxiety about her intermarried daughter’s decision "not to decide" which religion to teach her ow
Date: 12-06-2006Personal narrative by a grandma who feels lucky that though two of her sons intermarried, both families are raising Jewish children.
Date: 12-06-2006
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