By Andi Rosenthal
The story of Ruth is so often used to show that welcoming "strangers," converts, is ingrained in Jewish text. This test also includes the story of Orpah, however, who turned back and did not join the Jews.
Date: 04-15-2013
By Andi Rosenthal
Personal narrative from a Jew-by-choice who sometimes feels more Catholic than Jewish, especially when the High Holidays remind her of elements of Catholicism that bothered her.
Date: 08-01-2012
By Andi Rosenthal
Her relatives didn't realize that they had invited her to witness their marriage in church on the Day of Atonement.
Date: 10-08-2008
By Andi Rosenthal
She was happy to take her recently widowed mother on a cruise, but did it have to be on such a meaningful Jewish holiday?
Date: 06-09-2008
By Andi Rosenthal
Her father had jettisoned his Judaism; she converted to reclaim it. Now he was dead--how would she mourn him?
Date: 04-30-2008
By Andi Rosenthal
A young adult novel describes a 12-year-old child of interfaith marriage coming to terms with the death of her Jewish grandmother.
Date: 03-13-2008
By Andi Rosenthal
Review of Goya’s Ghosts, about a woman jailed during the Spanish Inquisition for suspicion of being a "judaizer."
Date: 08-13-2007
By Andi Rosenthal
The personal narrative of a politically active woman of interfaith families who attributes her activism to the values both parents taught her and links those values to Judaism.
Date: 08-09-2007
By Andi Rosenthal
The personal narrative of a woman trying to choose a Hebrew name for her conversion, while honoring both her Jewish and non-Jewish family.
Date: 08-08-2007
By Andi Rosenthal
The personal narrative of a woman who ran into difficulties due to inaccurate inferences based on her last name.
Date: 07-23-2007
By Andi Rosenthal
The personal narrative of a woman who was raised Catholic, but had a Jewish father, and her experience taking classes about the Holocaust during college.
Date: 06-14-2007