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By Jesse Tisch
Review of Judith Seid’s God-Optional Judaism: Alternatives for Cultural Jews Who Love Their History, Heritage, and Community, a book that eloquently makes the case for Secular Humanistic Judaism.
Date: 05-02-2007
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By Matthew E. Berger
Interview with Howard Dean that focuses on his intermarriage, his knowledge and practicing of Jewish culture and rituals, and the local Jewish community’s response.
Date: 02-20-2007
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By Gina Hagler
Personal narrative from a Jew-by-choice who shares her advice from a stressful year of planning her son’s bar mitzvah.
Date: 06-23-2006
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By Rebecca Gopoian
Personal narrative from the child of an interfaith Armenian/Jewish home, who is distrustful of religion despite her Christian husband’s strong faith in God.
Date: 03-27-2007
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By Daniel Siegel
Professional advice from rabbi who explains how his policies toward non-Jewish families regarding Bar or Bat Mitzvah and other matters have changed as he has gotten to know non-Jews who are committed to the Jewish identity of their children.
Date: 08-01-2012
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By Jim Keen
Personal narrative by an intermarried Protetant man describing his parents’ active participation and appreciation in his wife’s and children’s Judaism.
Date: 11-21-2006
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By Shelli Liebman Dorfman
A news article about Jewbilation, a philosophy that incorporations many Jewish traditions and is designed for interfaith families.
Date: 06-07-2007
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By Rabbi Samuel N. Gordon
Reprinted professional view Rosh Hashonah sermon from a rabbi trying to quel distress over high intermarriage rates; he describes the Jews as an "ever dying people" with intermarriage built into the Jewish identity.
Date: 07-31-2006
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By Brigitte Dayan
Opinion piece from a managing editor of a Chicago Jewish paper explaining how rituals, like the bris, are what connects people to Judaism, not universal values.
Date: 07-24-2007
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By Joe Berkofsky
Reprinted news article about a contentious essay written by Rabbi Paul Menitoff predicting the disappearance of the Conservative movement in a matter of decades because of the polarization of American Jewry, and the movement’s "opposition to in
Date: 11-27-2006