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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.
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Doctor, Doctor, There's a Joke in my Judaism!: A Conversation with Adam Gopnik
By Susan FreudenheimProfile of Adam Gopnik, the intermarried writer for the New Yorker.
Date: 06-15-2007 -
Finding a Way Through Grief
By Faye Rapoport DesPresWhen her mother-in-law died, Faye turned to Jewish culture to find a way to comfort her non-Jewish husband.
Date: 01-22-2009 -
Israeli Arab Stirs the Pot with Absurdist Film on Middle East
By Tom TugendReview of Divine Intervention, about three Israelis bound by love but separated by borders and checkpoints.
Date: 05-21-2007 -
TV Series Looks at Family Life of Secular Jew Who Married A Jew-by-Choice: The Education of Max Bickford
By Ronnie FriedlandReview of The Education of Max Bickford, a TV show that starred Richard Dreyfus as a skeptical Jewish professor whose ex-wife converted to Judaism and was killed in a car crash.
Date: 02-17-2007 -
A Novel about Three Secular Jewish Friends and Their Non-Jewish Wives
By Susan Katz MillerA review of Club Revelation by Allan Appel, a mediocre novel about two intermarried couples who live together in an apartment building that recalls ’60s-era communes.
Date: 01-09-2007 -
Getting to Know Judaism Without an Agenda
By Sissy BlockShe never imagined she'd date someone who wasn't Jewish. Now she wants to show him what she loved about living in Israel--here in the US.
Date: 08-01-2012 -
147 Ways to Be Jewish
By Jesse TischReview of I Am Jewish, a collection of essays (mostly) by famous people on what being Jewish means, inspired by Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s famous last words.
Date: 08-01-2012 -
San Francisco‘s Jewish Leftist Tradition Reemerges in Documentary
By Michael FoxReview of Following Sean, a documentary about a boy who grew up with hippie parents in the sixties and compares his life to the filmmaker’s life and family of Jewish leftists.
Date: 06-18-2007 -
Could It Happen Here? A Review of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
By Cheryl F. CoonReview of The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth, a work of fiction about American Jews during the Holocaust era.
Date: 01-13-2007 -
Will America's Loving Embrace Lead to the End of Judaism?
By Jonathan GronerReview of Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry by Samuel G. Freedman, a recent history of the fall of the ethnic Eastern-European collective Jewish identity, and what Judaism looks like in America today.
Date: 01-20-2007
