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 RelationshipsHis mother didn't want to burden him with Judaism, but Thomas Karatzas wanted to become bar mitzvah.
Date: 11-13-2008If 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: 08-01-2012Teens direct three short films for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival about their complicated families and the Jewish holidays.
Date: 02-10-2009First time director Jeremy Davidson's film Tickling Leo reaches deeply into the lives of a family of Holocaust survivors.
Date: 09-04-2009Rabbi 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: 09-10-2008One 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: 08-13-2008Like 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: 04-19-2010An 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: 06-14-2010Divorce entangles children in inevitable conflicts and forces them to shuttle between two different homes and sometimes, two different religions.
Date: 05-21-2010Bedtime rituals are among those spiritual moments that can work for an interfaith family.
Date: 02-18-2009