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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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Date: 08-14-2006A Dominican-American convert to Judaism discusses people's disbelief over her marriage to a white Jewish man.
Date: 07-21-2008Personal narrative from a Jewish man whose parents wouldn’t attend his Jewish wedding to his non-Jewish Hawaiian bride--but did attend his second, secular ceremony.
Date: 06-23-2006A white Jewish woman discusses the ways that she and her African-American Christian husband have negotiated differences to form a close family.
Date: 06-18-2007Article on Asian children growing up in Jewish families and the challenges they face reconciling their dual identities.
Date: 11-20-2006Personal narrative in which an American Jewish man recounts the religious, historical, and cultural tensions of dating and marrying a German Protestant woman.
Date: 11-27-2006Reprinted news article about the last remaining (intermarried!) Jew in the Lithuanian town of Plunge, and his dedication to memorializing the Jewish communities who perished in the Holocaust
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