When my husband read an early draft of this essay, he asked, "Why doesn't her partner have to support our daughter? After all, they agreed to raise children as Jews." What does it mean to raise a Jewish child?
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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 are the ethical and spiritual messages in Judaism? What are we supposed to learn? And who is Derek Eretz anyway?
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NEXT: A Division of Birthright Israel Foundation connects Birthright Israel trip alumni and their peers with meaningful Jewish living and learning opportunities nationally, locally and in Israel.
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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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A great way for Jewish professionals and volunteers who work with and provide programming for people in interfaith relationships to locate resources and trainings to build more welcome into their Jewish communities; connect with and learn from each other; and publicize and enhance their programs and services.
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Check out all the news posts by the G-dcast team! But don't forget to stop by the Network blog (written by InterfaithFamily staff) and the Parenting Blog too!
Go To BlogsPersonal narrative from an intermarried Jewish woman who says her Jewish identity is in her religious practice, it’s in her salivary glands, her genes, her brain and her temperament.
Date: 08-01-2012News story about the complications following interfaith divorce.
Date: 07-27-2007Personal narrative about an intermarried couple who have created and raised a culturally Jewish family.
Date: 08-01-2012The challenges we faced finding a religious home as a gay interfaith couple made us committed to raising children with a unified religious identity.
Date: 10-22-2008A news article about the interracial, multi-cultural Jewish families that participated in Camp Tawonga’s Mosaic Multiracial Family Weekend.
Date: 06-18-2007The personal narrative of a woman who renewed her wedding vows with her husband on their 18th anniversary in a traditional Jewish ceremony.
Date: 06-15-2007Personal narrative by a Chrsitian intermarried woman who is raising Jewish children, describing her monthly book group meeting which, coincidentally, also has become an interfaith marriage theraphy session.
Date: 06-14-2007Reprinted news article about a dispute in a divorce case over whether the children should be raised Catholic, going to CCD, or Jewish, going to Hebrew school.
Date: 07-26-2007Personal narrative from a Jewish man married to a Christian woman. They both practice Judaism at their Reconstructionist synagogue, but his sister doesn’t accept them.
Date: 11-07-2006The personal narrative of a man who works for the Jewish Outreach Institute and plans to use his experience with the organization to raise children with a knowledge of their mother’s Japanese heritage and their father’s Jewish-American roots.
Date: 06-18-2007
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