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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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Growing Up in an Interfaith Family
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Starting From Scratch
By Stacey PalevskyHis mother didn't want to burden him with Judaism, but Thomas Karatzas wanted to become bar mitzvah.
Date: 11-13-2008 -
Rabbi Reuben's Ruminations: What Do the Symbols of Passover Mean?
By Rabbi Steven Carr ReubenIf you're trying to figure out what's going on at the Passover seder, tune in to Rabbi Reuben and learn all about it.
Date: 08-01-2012 -
Teens Take On the Jewish Holidays in Short Films
By Lindsey SilkenTeens direct three short films for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival about their complicated families and the Jewish holidays.
Date: 02-10-2009 -
Tickling Leo: A Tale of Love and Loss
By Hedi MolnarFirst time director Jeremy Davidson's film Tickling Leo reaches deeply into the lives of a family of Holocaust survivors.
Date: 09-04-2009 -
Rabbi Reuben's Ruminations: Intermarried, But My Kids Are Interdating
By Rabbi Steven Carr ReubenRabbi Reuben advises parents of children of dating age to think about the values rather than the religious backgrounds they would like potential partners to have.
Date: 09-10-2008 -
Rabbi Reuben's Ruminations: Can't We Do Both Religions?
By Rabbi Steven Carr ReubenOne of the questions that interfaith couples ask me more than any other when it comes to raising children is, "Why can't we raise them as both?"
Date: 08-13-2008 -
The Bat Mitzvah Gift
By Deborah SusserLike most parents, I wanted my daughter to have what I had not. In my case, that meant a sense of being grounded in a particular community and tradition.
Date: 04-19-2010 -
Drake Graham, Black Jewish Hip Hop Star
By Amos BarshadAn African-American Jewish day school graduate starts to make it big in hip-hop, to the delight of his former day-school classmates--who used to call him names.
Date: 06-14-2010 -
Religion and a House Divided
By Julie WienerDivorce entangles children in inevitable conflicts and forces them to shuttle between two different homes and sometimes, two different religions.
Date: 05-21-2010 -
Rabbi Reuben's Ruminations: Create New Interfaith Family Rituals
By Rabbi Steven Carr ReubenBedtime rituals are among those spiritual moments that can work for an interfaith family.
Date: 02-18-2009
