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 BlogsTips for parents of children who are intermarrying, compiled from InterfaithFamily contributors.
Date: 01-08-2013When dating, how do you answer the questions 'how Jewish are you?' and 'does he need to be Jewish?'
Date: 11-12-2012Professional advice to interdating couples: be sure to have those difficult discussions about family, religion, culture, and expectations for the future before you marry. Article gives some suggestions of important information to share with
Date: 08-01-2012She 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: 08-01-2012Personal narrative by a Jewish man who is engaged to a Christian woman about how "the strength of a relationship cannot be measured by how deep or shallow those differences are, but how they’re dealt with."
Date: 08-01-2012Personal narrative from an Orthodox-raised college student describing how he and his friends are reacting to and trying to sort out their own convictions about interfaith dating at college.
Date: 08-01-2012Personal narrative about woman in serious interdating relationship who has run into some complications due to religion but feels they have many more shared values than differences.
Date: 08-01-2012A personal account of how two partners, both of whom are committed to their own religions, benefited from a course on dialogue and communication for interdating/intermarried couples.
Date: 01-12-2012An essay and video monologue on the lesson that comes with the author's struggle to accept who she is and where she came from. multi-cultural, mixed, heritage, Jewish, monologue, video, ethnicities, interfaith dating, interfaith, interdating,
Date: 12-27-2010It does not bother me whether she IS Jewish, as long as she DOES Jewish things with me. I trust that our still-hypothetical kids will grow up in a far more Jewish environment than I did.
Date: 06-30-2010
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