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By Carla Haimowitz
A professional view/advice article on the benefits of being in an interfaith relationship-- including exposure to culture and greater appreciation of one’s religion.
Date: 06-15-2007
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By Eleanor Jaffe
Professional view from a social worker facilitating interfaith couples’ workshops describing the comments of interfaith couples and their parents, and explaining, in general terms, the generational gap.
Date: 06-15-2007
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By Sarah R. Heilbronner
A young Jewish woman considers whether she would marry a non-Jew, creating an interfaith family like the one in which she grew up.
Date: 07-23-2007
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By Ronnie Friedland
Review of Thunder in Guyana, a documentary about the life of Janet Roberts Jagan, a white Jewish woman married to a Guyanese man, and who was elected president of Guyana.
Date: 02-16-2007
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By Johanna Karasik
The personal narrative of a young woman who was raised in by interfaith parents but chose Judaism and remains unsure if growing up in an interfaith family will affect her decision to marry someone Jewish or raise her children Jewish.
Date: 07-20-2007
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By Suzanne Koven
Review of The Namesake, about a young Indian-American man’s search for identity and love, and how it relates to the issue of intermarriage in the Jewish community.
Date: 06-18-2007
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By Rabbi Michael Boyden
Reprinted news article about one rabbi’s plan of action to prevent intermarriage and interfaith marriage in Israel from becoming a serious problem: education, accessibility to conversion, and outreach to the non-Jewish populations of Isreal.
Date: 07-27-2006
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By Julie Wiener
The author thought that the term shiksa had fallen into disuse, but it's still around.
Date: 04-16-2009
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By Monica Sandoval-Sapherstein
Personal narrative from a Chilean-American from Queens who dated--and married--a Jewish man from suburban New Jersey.
Date: 01-26-2007
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By Heather Subba
Personal narrative from a Reform Jewish woman whose Orthodox friend strongly disapproved of her relationship with a non-Jew.
Date: 06-06-2007