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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.
Go To LGBTQ RelationshipsProfile of Adam Gopnik, the intermarried writer for the New Yorker.
Date: 06-15-2007When her mother-in-law died, Faye turned to Jewish culture to find a way to comfort her non-Jewish husband.
Date: 01-22-2009Review of Divine Intervention, about three Israelis bound by love but separated by borders and checkpoints.
Date: 05-21-2007Review 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: 02-17-2007A 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: 01-09-2007She 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: 08-01-2012Review 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: 08-01-2012Review 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: 06-18-2007Review of The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth, a work of fiction about American Jews during the Holocaust era.
Date: 01-13-2007Review 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