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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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Not Crazy About Goy Crazy
Review of Melissa Schorr’s Goy Crazy, a youth novel about a nice Jewish girl with a crush on her hunky non-Jewish neighbor.
Date: 02-09-2007How Hungry Are You?
Review of Questions Christians Ask the Rabbi and Understanding Your Neighbor’s Faith, two interesting but different books that give insight into different religions.
Date: 01-29-2007Klezmer with a Side of Salsa
Profile of Roberto Juan Rodriguez, a Catholic Cuban who grew up among Jews who is fusing klezmer and Cuban salsa.
Date: 01-25-2007God Is Great, I'm Not: A Review
Review of God is Great; I’m Not, about an interfaith relationship that grows rocky when the Catholic girlfriend’s interest in Judaism grows in contrast to her Jewish boyfriend’s identity conflict and personal shame.
Date: 01-22-2007Faithless: a Riveting, but Flawed Film
Review of Faithless, a film about a woman who strays from her interfaith marriage through an affair, a story evoked from the personal life story of Ingmar Bergman.
Date: 01-22-2007Brother Born Again: A Review
A review of Brother Born Again, a film that explores how a child brought up in a secular Jewish environment turns to Christianity after the traumatic death of his father.
Date: 01-22-2007A Trumpet in the Wadi
Review of the Israeli film A Trumpet in the Wadi about a romance between a Christian-Arab woman and a Jewish man.
Date: 01-22-2007"Once and Again": A TV Series about a Divorced, Interfaith Couple
Review of "Once and Again," a television show about a divorced interfaith family.
Date: 01-22-2007"Material Girl" Goes Mystical: Madonna Makes Israel Pilgrimage
Commentary on Madonna’s Kabbalah-inspired visit to Israel.
Date: 01-22-2007Will America's Loving Embrace Lead to the End of Judaism?
Review 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
