Issue 52: Israel and Interfaith Families

My Personal Story

• Israel and Us
  By Deborah Fineblum
• Israel - Still a Sticky Subject in Interfaith Families Like Mine
  By Marlena Thompson

Professional View

• Why January 1 is Special: Even Jesus was Circumcised on the Eighth Day
  By Bruce Kadden

News

• A New Deal: FDR's Greatgrandson is a Rabbi-in-progress
  By Robert Leiter

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• French Version of Manhattan's Garment District Portrayed in New Film with Interfaith Love Theme
  By Ronnie Friedland

Dear Dr. Paula

• Dear Dr. Paula
  By Dr. Paula Brody

Issue 53: Adoption and Interfaith Families

My Personal Story

• Cheese Blintzes: An Adoptee Discovers Her Jewish Roots
  By Dina Beach Lynch
• Our Special Angel: Adopting Chloe
  By Debra Berger
• Raising a Jewish-Guatemalan Child
  By Debra Berger

Professional View

• How to Talk to Your Kids about Adoption
  By Kathy Brodsky, CSW, LCSW

Dialogue and Debate

• An Intermarried Perspective on The Jew Within
  By Ed Case

News

• Growing Up Jewish ... With Christian Parents: A Compelling Story of Loss, Love and Faith
  By Elyssa Mosbacher

Columns

• Taking the First Step: Realizing I'm Lucky to Have to Explain Why Judaism Is Important to Me
  By Julie Slotnik
• My Jewish Journey: Our Marathon
  By Julie Gardner

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Portrait of a Young Woman in Search of Her Authentic Self: Review of Rebecca Walker's "Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self"
  By Marlena Thompson
• Translating Between Two Worlds: An Interview with Rebecca Walker
  By Judith Bolton-Fasman

Issue 54: Adoption and Interfaith Families, Part 2

My Personal Story

• With CHAI You Get Eggroll: Raising a Jewish-Chinese Daughter in America
  By Marlyn Kress
• The Dilemmas and Delights of Raising Lilly
  By Robin Sedman

Professional View

• A Jewish Rainbow: Transcultural and Transracial Adoption
  By Shelly Kapnek Rosenberg, Ed.D.
• Gay Adoption
  By Jane Calem Rosen

Dialogue and Debate

• A Reply to Ed Case's Review of The Jew Within
  By Arnold M. Eisen

News

• Ner Tamid Disaffialiated by Conservative Movement
  By Robin Friedman

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Old and New Approaches to Emerging Developments in the Jewish Family: A Review of "Adoption and the Jewish Family: Contemporary Perspectives"
  By Richard Shevitz

Dear Dr. Paula

• Dear Dr. Paula
  By Dr. Paula Brody

Dispatches from the Institute - NEW

• Dispatches from the Institute
  By The Jewish Outreach Institute

Issue 55: Conversion and Interfaith Families

My Personal Story

• Choosing to Convert, Yet Hesitant
  By Marlane Press

Professional View

• The Household of Israel is Built Up by Jews by Choice
  By Rabbi Helen T. Cohn
• Teaching About Conversion in Our Religious School
  By Rabbi Mark Shapiro
• In Observance Fanaticism?
  By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

Columns

• My Jewish Journey: Passages
  By Julie Gardner

Dialogue and Debate

• Love Means Never Having to be Proactive
  By Egon Mayer

News

• Now Intermarriage is Funny?
  By Gil Mann

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• People of the Book: A Review of" Embracing Judaism", by Simcha Kling, revised by Carl M. Perkins
  By Rabbi Helen T. Cohn

Issue 56: Conversion and Interfaith Families, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Is Conversion Necessary for Acceptance? Choosing to Participate in an Interfaith Havurah
  By Andrea G. Baran
• I Chose a Non-Jew - And the Non-Jew Chose Judaism
  By Lyssa Friedman

Professional View

• Preparation, Standards and Ceremonies Involved in Reform Conversion in the Boston Area
  By Rabbi Henry A. Zoob

Columns

• Takin the First Step: Introduction to Judaism - The Tenth Session Meets the Ten Plagues
  By Julie Slotnik

Dialogue and Debate

• Are Converts Treated as Second Class?
  By Gil Mann

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Interview with Eugene L. Pogany and Review of his "In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith After the Holocaust"
  By Judith Bolton-Fasman

Dispatches from the Institute - NEW

Issue 57: Raising Children as Jews in Interfaith Families

My Personal Story

• Raising My Children as Jews
  By Annie Modesitt
• Raising Our children Jewish in Our Interfaith Family
  By Staci Kennedy

Professional View

• So You Want to be a Jewish Mother, but You're not Jewish?
  By Rabbi Barbara Penzner
• My Responses to Questions Christian Mothers Have Asked Me About Raising Their Children Jewishly
  By Rabbi Gary Mazo

Columns

• Dear Dr. Paula
  By Dr. Paula Brody
• Dear Rabbi Guaranteeing Jewish Identity
  By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

News

• New Coalition Formed To Fight Intermarriage
  By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Helping Love to Conquer All
  By Rebecca E. Kotkin

Issue 58: Passover and Easter

My Personal Story

• Easter Seders and Passover Bunnies
  By Jeri Zeder
• Easter Story
  By Ronnie Caplane
• Happily Celebrating Both Passover and Easter, in Our Own Special Way
  By Marlena Thompson

Professional View

• When a Seder Meets Good Friday: Challenges During the Easter and Passover Holidays
  By June Andrews Horowitz

Dialogue and Debate

• Let's Not Promote In-marriage Without Promoting Outreach to the Intermarried
  By Edmund Case

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Passover Seders Made Simple: A Helpful Cookbook
  By Ronnie Friedland
• An Alternative to the Traditional Hagaddah for Your Interfaith Seder
  By Marlena Thompson

Dispatches from the Institute

• Passover Optimism
  By The Jewish Outreach Institute

Issue 59: Birth Ceremonies

My Personal Story

• Choosing a Birth Ceremony and Telling My Parents
  By Ruth Goldberger

Professional View

• Is Heaven Denied to an Unbaptized Child?
  By Fr. Walter
• Is Avoiding Birth Ceremonies Really a Good Option?
  By Ruth Goldberger
• Where to Have a Circumcision: At the Hospital or at Home?
  By Rabbi Terry Bard

Column

• Dear Dr. Paula
  By Dr. Paula Brody

Dialogue and Debate

• Working with Interfaith Couples and Families: Emerging Themes
  By Marion L. Usher

News

• Cry for Change
  By Michael Paulson

Reviews, Interviews and Profiles

• Pollock
  By Ronnie Friedland
• Gwenyth Paltrow Talks About Her Interfaith Family

Issue 60: Birth Ceremonies, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Our Son's Naming Ceremony
  By Rena Mello
• Samantha Caitlyn Kennedy's Jewish Baby Naming
  By Staci Kennedy
• I Have to Admit, I'm Glad We Had Girls
  By Jim Keen

Professional View

• Choosing Your Child's Name
  By Paula Brody

Column

• I Wish I May, I Wish I Might...
  By Julie Gardner

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Faithless: A Riveting, but Flawed Film
  By Ronnie Friedland

Dispatches from the Institute

• What's In a Name? Maybe Too Much!
  By The Jewish Outreach Institute

Issue 61: Divorce and Step-Families

My Personal Story

• Divorced, Remarried, and Discovered Judaism
  By Paula Hellman
• Divorced, Traditional Mother of Two with a Non-Jewish Boyfriend
  By Jennifer Pasquette
• When My Jewish Father Became Involved with a Born-Again Christian
  By Tracy Boriskin
• Celebrating Holidays in an Interfaith Step-Family
  By Jeffrey Greenhut

Professional View

• When an Intermarriage Doesn't Work Out
  By Sanford Seltzer

Column

• Dear Dr. Paula
  By Dr. Paula Brody

Dialogue and Debate

• Why the Jewish Community Needs to Change Its Approach to Intermarriage
  By Charlotte Honigman-Smith

News

• S.F. Interfaith Effort Successful, Study Shows
  By Alexandra Wall and Kamet Silver Ghent

Profiles

• Profile of Anita Diamant
  By Rahel Musleah

Issue 62: Interdating

My Personal Story

• We Have Similar Personalities, Passions and Beliefs, but Different Religions
  By Sarah Smith
• I'm Catholic and She's Jewish, yet I'm Optimistic about Our Future
  By Joseph Smith
• Interdating and Our Families
  By Michael Heafitz
• Look Who's NOT Coming to Dinner
  By Scott Egolinsky
• Interdating in a Foreigh Land
  By Marylin Green

Professional View

• Choose Wisely: One Family's Approach to the Topic of Interdating
  By Mark and Marjorie Sokoll
• What I Tell My Children About Interdating
  By Linda Krauss

Column

• Taking the First Step: The Introduction to Judaism Course Is Full of Surprises
  By Julie Slotnik
• Dispatches from the Institute: Shavuot, a Celebration of Choice
  By The Jewish Outreach Institute

Dialogue and Debate

• Discouraging Intermarriage Doesn't Work
  By Edmund Case

News

• Some "Ominous" News for Continuity, says Group
  By Julie Wiener

Reviews

• A Tale of Jerusalem - From Three Religious Perspectives
  By Marlena Thompson

Issue 63: Growing Up in an Interfaith Family

My Personal Story

• Growing Up Jewish with an Irish-Catholic Father
  By Charlotte Honigman-Smith
• J.A.C.K.: Jewish-American-Chinese Kid
  By Jonathan Chao Burnston
• Growing Up in an Interfaith Family
  By Melanie Leher
• My Choice
  By Tara Remick

Professional View

• The Horse's Mouth: Ask the Adult Children How to Raise Interfaith Kids
  By Robin Elizabeth Margolis
• An Intermarriage and a Struggling Teen
  By Gil Mann

Column

• My Jewish Journey: Expectations
  By Julie Gardner

News

• An Acquired Taste
  By Stuart Schoffman

Reviews

• Catholics and Jews: A Review of "Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews", by James Carroll
  By Eugene Pogany

Issue 64: Interfaith Weddings

My Personal Story

• Introducing the Parents
  By Ed Olhava and Phoebe Lewitt
• Finding the Balance
  By Erin Bernau
• The Shrinking Crucifix
  By Elaine Markowitz
• My Son's Intermarriage
  By Raquel Stabinski-Leib

Professional View

• Why We Call them Intercultural Weddings: a Secular Humanistic Jewish Approach
  By Miriam Jerris
• Reflections on Marrying Interfaith Couples
  By Rabbi Leslie Keiter Rannenwald

Column

• Taking the First Step: Learning about Anti-Semitism in Our Intro. to Judaism ClassBy Julie Slotnik

Dispatches from the Institute

• What Rabbis Think and Do about Interfaith Wedding Ceremonies
  By The Jewish Outreach Institute

News

• Pollsters Take off the Gloves
  By Ami Eden
• Chief Rabbi Assures Burial
  By Haim Shapiro and Allyn Fisher-Ilan

Reviews

• Brother Born Again: a Review
  By Ronnie Friedland

Issue 65: Interfaith Relationships

My Personal Story

• The Strength of Our Interfaith Marriage
  By Annie Modesitt
• In a Heartbeat
  By Jeri Zeder

Professional View

• The Invisible Parent
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer
• The Delicate Balance: On the Importance of Good Communication in Interfaith Marriages
  By Sue Stettner

Column

• Beyond the December Dilemma: Can We Incorporate Buddhist Philosophy into Our Life Together?
  By Heidi Rehak and Howard Lovy

News

• North America's Reform Rabbis Adopt Comprehensive New Conversion Guidelines, Welcoming Converts to Judaism with 'Joy and Encouragement'
  By The Central Conference of American Rabbis

Reviews, Interviews and Profiles

• Mixed Blessings: Creating Positive Interfaith, Interracial, and Interethnic Relationships
  By Marlena Thompson
• Joe Bologna and Renee Taylor Talk About their Interfaith Weddings

Issue 66: Teaching about Other Religions in Religious Schools

Professional View

• Is There a Place for Jesus in Our Religious School Curriculum?
  By Sheila Goldberg
• Teaching about Other Religions at Sukkat Shalom
  By Rabbi Sam Gordon
• Teaching About Judaism within the Roman Catholic Tradition
  By Susan Murphy
• Should We Teach Judaism by Belief or by Rituals?
  By Rabbi David Wolpe

Dialogue and Debate

• Between Intermarriage and Conversion: Finding a Middle Way
  By Rabbi Steve Greenberg

News

• Wedding on the Wall
  By Allen Salkin
• Reform Allows Hebrew Schools to Hire Intermarried Teachers
  By Ami Eden

Dispatches from the Institute

• Comparative Religion - But for Real This Time!
  By The Jewish Outreach Institute

Reviews, Interviews and Profiles

• Will America's Loving Embrace Lead to the End of Judaism?
  By Jonathan Groner
• Dr. Dale's Life Issues: Is There One Right Way to Raise Children In Interfaith Families?

Issue 67: Interfaith Family Travel

My Personal Story

• More Than Just the Architecture
  By Marylin Green
• A Jew-by-Choice Visits His Daughter in Israel
  By Jim Ball
• Seeing Disney World Through My Daughter's Almond-Shaped Eyes
  By Marlyn Kress
• Cork's Jewish Community: Small in Size, Grand in Spirit
  By Marlena Thompson

Column

• Beyond the December Dilemma: I Do!
  By Heidi Rehak and Howard Lovy

Dialogue and Debate

• On Integrating My Love and Commitment to Judaism and Jewish Community with My Love and Commitment to a Man Who Is Not Jewish
  By Sarah Tauber

News

• An 'Alien' Solution to Intermarriage Dilemma
  By Ami Eden

Interviews

• Cokie and Steve Reveal the Secrets of Their Happiness
  By Cindy Sher

Issue 68: The Jewish High Holidays

My Personal Story

• A Distillation of Life: "Reflections on Our First High Holidays"
  By Elisha Aharon
• Grandparenting for the High Holidays
  By Zell Schulman
• How My Non-Jewish, Atheist Husband Helps Celebrate the Jewish Holidays
  By Staci Kennedy
• Handling the High Holidays: Strategies Interfaith Families Use
  By Ronnie Caplane

News

• Interfaith Advocates Say It's Time to Move Toward Encouragement
  By Janis Siegel

Dispatch from the Institute

• One for Your High Holidays Check List: "Welcoming the Stranger"
  By Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky

Reviews, Interviews and Profiles

• An Excellent Reference: But Not for 'Dummies'
  By Marlena Thompson
• Dr. Dale's Life Issues: Dr. Dale Interviews Interfaith Couples

Issue 69: Religious Journeys, Part 1

My Personal Story

• Coming Back after Twenty-Five Years
  By Robert Podel
• Finding My Way after Growing Up Christian with a Jewish Mother
  By Allison  Harper
• Jewish Spirituality from an Unlikely Source
  By Edie Aronowitz Mueller

Column

• Beyond the December Dilemma: Writing Wedding Vows
  By Heidi Rehak and Howard Lovy

News

• Strangers in Your Midst
  Editorial from "The Forward"

Reviews, Interviews and Profiles

• The Interracial, Interfaith Love Affairs in Secret Love
  By Sue Katz Miller
• The 92nd Street Y Presents: An Interfaith Dialogue

Issue 70: Religious Journeys, Part 2

My Personal Story

• My Sense of Being an Outsider Changed One Day in September
  By Teresa A. McMahon
• Seeking Comfort
  By Paula Lee Hellman
• An Interfaith Sweater
  By Annie Modesitt
• Questioning God, but Not My Identity as a Jew
  By Rachel Baruch Yackley

Column

• Dear Dr. Paula: I Want to Change My Mind over My Promise to Raise My Child in Another Faith
  By Dr. Paula Brody, LICSW, Ed.D.

News

• Conservative Body Extends Hand to the Intermarried
  From "The Forward"

Dispatch from the Institute

• When The Journey Is The Goal
  By The Jewish Outreach Institute

Reviews, Interviews and Profiles

• Profile: Myla Goldberg
  By Rahel Musleah
• Dr. Dale's Life Issues: Interfaith Dating

Issue 71: Relations with In-Laws

My Personal Story

• Family Secrets and Tensions
  By Nina Amir Lacey
• Helping My Christian Parents Understand Their Grandchildren's Judaism
  By Jim Keen

Column

• Dear Dr. Paula: Do I Need to Tell My Parents about Our Religious Choice for Our Children?
  By Dr. Paula Brody, LICSW, Ed.D.

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A Christian's Primer: A Harvard Professor Delves into the Beauty That Is Judaism
  By Robert Leiter
• Never Again? An Interview with Susan Schwartz Senstad, Author of "Music for the Third Ear"
  By Rebecca E. Kotkin

Issue 72: Relations with In-Laws, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Creating Our Own Religious Traditions and Helping Our Parents Adjust
  By Rena Mello
• Of Crucifixes, Latkes, and Overcoming Stereotypes
  By Jennifer Paquette
• Preventing Difference from Adding to Distance
  By Teresa A. McMahon

Dialogue and Debate

• Judaism's Attitudes Toward Half-Jews Harms Only Itself
  By Rose Shuman

News

• New Study Shows Intermarriage Still Rising
  By Julie Wiener
• Is Wanting To Share a Jewish Partner's Religious Commitment a Sufficient Basis for Conversion?
  A Survey from Moment Magazine

Dispatch from the Institute

• Warm Welcome to Judaism Works!
  By The Jewish Outreach Institute

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• TV Series Looks at Family Life of Secular Jew Who Married A Jew-by-Choice: The Education of Max Bickford
  By Ronnie Friedland

Issue 73: Thanksgiving

My Personal Story

• Thanksgiving: The Interfaith Family's "Holiday" from Holiday Religious Issues
  By Jim Keen
• Thanksgiving, 2001
  By Paula Lee Hellman
• The Humbling
  By Jennifer Schulman

News

• Jewish Outreach Goes to the Mall: Programs Look for Those Who Shop til They Drop
  By Julie Wiener
• Conservative Doors May Open Wider to Intermarrieds
  By Helen Teitelbaum

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Interview with Anita Diamant: Author of "Good Harbor"
  By Ronnie Friedland

Issue 74: Hanukkah and Christmas

My Personal Story

• Passage to India
  By Carol Kort
• To Tree or Not to Tree
  By Staci Kennedy

Column

• Dear Dr. Paula: How Do I mourn as a Jew-by-Choice?
  By Dr. Paula Brody

News

• Study: Jewish Outreach to Intermarried Works
  By Julie Wiener

Dispatch from the Institute

• The January-through-December Dilemma
  By The Jewish Outreach Institute

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A New Film Focuses on Anti-Semitism in the 1940s
  By Ronnie Friedland

Issue 75: Hanukkah and Christmas, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Journeying in and out of Christmas
  By Ronnie Caplane
• Interfaith Holidays at the Office
  By Lyssa Friedman

Column

• Interdating and Kids: When You Do What You Do - and Not What You Say
  By Ilene Springer

News

• In Study, Reform Takes Stock of Outreach to Intermarrieds
  By Julie Wiener

IFF In The News

• Solving December's "Dilemma": Authors Tackle Interfaith Issues
  By Azell Murphy Cavaan

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Doing It by the Book
  By Teresa McMahon

Issue 76: What Non-Jewish Partners Raising Jewish Children Need for Themselves

My Personal Story

• Our Interfaith Dialogue Evolves, But Never Ends
  By Sheila McIntosh
• If I Can't Play Santa Claus, at Least I Can Be the Tooth Fairy
  By Jim Keen

Column

• What Do I Do about My Commitment to Raise My Child Catholic?
  By Dr. Paula Brody
• A Moment of Truth for Your Family, Every Week
  By The Jewish Outreach Institute

News

• Facing Interfaith Issues in December and Beyond
  By Deborah Fineblum Raub

IFF In The News

• Negotiation and Accommodation in Mixed Marriages
  By Daniela Martin
• Many in Mixed-religion Marriages Struggle with How to Observe the December Holidays
  By Elyssa Andrus

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Profile of Sam Osherson: A "Good-Enough" Jew
  By Ronnie Friedland