Relationships
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 RelationshipsCatching up with Amanda Peet and her husband, David Benioff, and checking in with Tobey McGuire.
Date: 11-24-2009Ivanka Trump chose Judaism, true love and a Vera Wang wedding gown. President Obama's Jewish half-brother chose to write a novel about his life. Joshua Bell chose to help Warsaw's Jewish Museum.
Date: 11-10-2009Adam Lambert didn't win the American Idol contest, but he has made a name for himself as a singer, and spoken to the Jewish press about his interfaith family.
Date: 10-27-2009If your friends have been buzzing about how much they love the TV show Glee, you'll enjoy sharing with them that you have something in common with the actors and characters who share an interfaith family background.
Date: 10-13-2009Taylor Mays, a college football player who learned athleticism from his bar mitzvah, Julianne Margulies on a her new show, and Christine Lahti, an actress we admire.
Date: 09-30-2009The 2009 Emmy Award nominees include some actors and directors with a lot of interfaith interconnections--including Kevin Bacon.
Date: 09-15-2009Tarantino's alternate history of World War II is almost as exciting as the real history of Jewish refugees from interfaith families who fought for the US.
Date: 09-01-2009It has been 40 years since the great music festival in the Catskills, and all the Jewish participants are looking back and writing memoirs.
Date: 08-19-2009Tom Arnold is funnier than people think, his ex-wife Roseanne Barr, less funny than she thinks. Richard Nixon was never funny.
Date: 08-05-2009Dan Radcliffe is proud of his Jewish heritage--not so much of his poetry. Ivanka Trump is over the moon about her fiancee and Amy Winehouse is splitting with her man.
Date: 07-21-2009Michael Jackson's death has prompted the reopening of custody issues with his Jewish second wife, Deborah Rowe. Also, Michael Douglas' happy family turns out for a lifetime American Film Institute Award.
Date: 07-08-2009