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    Going Home Again

    By Heather Subba

    Though nervous her husband would be seen as 'different' or 'other' in a synagogue setting, finding a synagogue home community became important for one interfaith family.

    Date: 05-29-2013

    Supporting Our Partners: Shifting Perceptions of Raising Jewish Kids

    By Edie Mueller

    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?

    Date: 05-17-2013

    Parenting and the Joy for Jewish

    By Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy

    An intermarried couple's parenting philosophy, when it comes to religion and finding one's own identity.

    Date: 11-07-2012

    Celebrating Shabbat at an Italian Summer Camp

    By Andrea Pigey

    A mother's view of her daughters experience at a camp in Italy, and how the staff handled diversity, inclusion and arranged to let her kids celebrate Shabbat.

    Date: 08-30-2012

    Lasagna and Hamantashen

    By Beverly Asaro

    An Italian Catholic woman celebrates her success in raising Jewish children in a home that reflects both her and her husband's cultural traditions.

    Date: 08-01-2012

    How to Talk to Your Kids about Jesus

    By Debra B. Darvick

    Advice on how Jewish parents, or interfaith parents raising their children Jewish, can answer their children's questions about Jesus.

    Date: 08-01-2012

    Jewish Values Are Everyone's Values

    By Gary Goldhammer

    The personal narrative of an intermarried man and his opinions that Jewish values are everyone's values, that all religions have the same values but differences in faith.

    Date: 08-01-2012

    My Childhood Versus My Children's

    By Jim Keen

    A man describes the differences between his Protestant upbringing and the Jewish upbringing of his two daughters.

    Date: 08-01-2012

    How to Act Jewish to Raise a Jewish Child--The Intercultural Communications Approach

    By Deanna Shoss

    This is not about my spouse becoming Jewish. It's about unambiguous support from both of us that our child is Jewish, regardless of what we practice individually.

    Date: 08-01-2012

    Kosher Dairy Lunch or What I learned in Preschool

    By Nancy Thompson Brown

    I was sold on this dream of a teacher with a clean, clean, clean preschool and a staff of four who were like leaving your child with your mother and your mother-in-law… but without the baggage, if you know what I mean

    Date: 08-01-2012

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