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Growing Up in an Interfaith Family

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  • A Family Blessing With Sprinkles on Top

    By Michelle Effron Miller

    Daughter of an interfaith marriage, she is raising her children as Jews, but her brothers are not.

    Date: 08-22-2008
  • Preservation

    By Sam Jacobs

    His peers persuaded him to make the rule against interdating, because they were confused about their identity. Then he broke his own rule.

    Date: 10-09-2009
  • Laker Jordan Farmar shoots for Middle East coexistence

    By Gil Hoffman

    Jordan Farmar, the only Jewish player in the NBA, plays basketball for peace with Israeli and Palestinian children.

    Date: 08-14-2008
  • Joining Traditions

    By Benjamin A. Maron

    We tend to dwell on what it's like for parents when their children intermarry. What about what it's like for children whose parents enter a second, interfaith marriage?

    Date: 02-12-2010
  • This Is Not Your Mother's Synagogue

    By Rachel Mauro

    This child of an interfaith family is choosing a different kind of Jewish community than her parents did.

    Date: 08-21-2008
  • Sinai At Sea

    By Andi Rosenthal

    She was happy to take her recently widowed mother on a cruise, but did it have to be on such a meaningful Jewish holiday?

    Date: 06-09-2008
  • A Sukkah of Our Own

    By Charlotte Gordon

    We were proud of our sukkah. Even though it didn't adhere to the rabbis' rules, I knew we had come near the spirit of the law.

    Date: 10-21-2008
  • Excerpts from Surviving

    By Akira Ohiso

    He hadn't known that his maternal grandfather had been a silent Jew. Now he was in love with a Jewish woman and working as a social worker with Holocaust survivors.

    Date: 02-24-2009
  • Comforting Mourners in Interfaith Families

    By Lois Rubin

    Jewish mourning practices can be psychologically helpful to people who have lost parents, even when those parents aren't Jewish.

    Date: 04-30-2010
  • Neil Diamond, Sugar Cookies And Shiny Plastic Dreidels

    By Emily Savage

    I've realized that this is my religion, or at least a major part of it--my family, and our own traditions--the meshugah life of a Jew who wholeheartedly celebrates Christmas.

    Date: 12-02-2008

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