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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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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Go To BlogsPersonal narrative from a Jewish-Protestant intermarried couple who wanted to raise their children with some religion, and found the only reasonable compromise in the Unitarian church, because of what the Jewish partner sees as the "rigidity&quo
Date: 11-27-2006Professional view by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, who explains his approach to interfaith marriage--create "an entirely new wedding ceremony for marriages between a Jew and a member of another spiritual community"--and describes and explains the ce
Date: 08-14-2007Personal narrative from a Jew-by-choice who shares her advice from a stressful year of planning her son’s bar mitzvah.
Date: 06-23-2006Professional 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: 08-01-2012A reported feature on a young woman who maintained her Jewish identity after her mother and Jewish stepfather weren't together.
Date: 08-07-2007General information about how interfaith couples and ceremonies are handled by the Secular Humanistic Jewish movement.
Date: 05-02-2007Personal narrative about a lesbian Jewish woman, her Christian (lifelong) partner, and their daughter who they are raising as a Jew.
Date: 01-08-2007A news article about Jewbilation, a philosophy that incorporations many Jewish traditions and is designed for interfaith families.
Date: 06-07-2007A rabbi’s opinion that synagogues should welcome interfaith families that wish to explore Judaism, even if they aren’t committed to the faith.
Date: 06-12-2007Reprinted 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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