Issue 100: Our 100th Issue, and Conversion, Part 1

Our 100th Issue

• From the Readers: What InterfaithFamily.com Has Meant to Me
  By Our Readers
• From the Editor: Looking Back... and Looking Ahead
  By Ronnie Friedland
• From the Publisher: Interfaith Families Raising Jewish Children
  By Edmund Case

Conversion: My Personal Story

• From Our New Colleague: Coming Full Circle
  By Kathy Bloomfield
• Respecting Judaism, but Choosing Not to Convert
  By David Jeffrey

Conversion: Dialogue and Debate

• My Opinion: Ethnicity is Not Judaism
  By David Essex

Conversion: Professional View

• The Conversion Hot Button
  From the Jewish Outreach Institute

Conversion: News

• Jewish Roots Permeate Music of Honored American Composer Despite Family History of Conversion
  By Ruth Gruber

Conversion: Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Night Reading: A Still Small Voice - The Mystery of Religious Conversion
  By Eugene L. Pogany

InterfaithFamily.com in the News

• Same House, Different Faiths
  By Cathy Lynn Grossman

Holidays

• It's Time to Employ Judaism to Speak for the World's Trees
  By Richard H. Schwartz

Issue 101: Conversion, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Admiring My Parents' Religious Tolerance
  By Jim Morgan
• Tested through Conversion: A Tale of Sibling Love
  By Elaine Markowitz
• Learning Tolerance and Compassion from My Husband
  By Nina Amir
• Converting Our Adopted Daughter to My Husband's Religion
  By Karen Loftus

News

• Do Russian Emigres Want Liberal Conversions?
  By Jessica Steinberg
• A First in San Francisco: Celebrating Bat Mitzvah at Glide
  By Ronnie Caplane
• Newest Jewish Member of the House Makes an Impact His First Day on the Job
  By Eli Kintisch
• From Celluloid to Synagogue: Do Film Fests Build Jewish Identity?
  By Joe Berkofsky

InterfaithFamily.com in the News

• Reform Rabbis Protest Cuts to Outreach
  By Nacha Cattan
• Reform Cuts Outreach Programs
  By Julie Wiener

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• God Is Great, I'm Not: A Review
  By Ronnie Friedland
• A Conversation with Filmmaker Pascale Bailly
  By Ronnie Friedland
• Diversity of Color Shines Through Black and White Photo Exhibit
  By Soshana Hebshi-Holt

Issue 102: Conversion, Part 3

My Personal Story

• The Support of My Congregation
  By Catherine S. Fischer
• Keeping the Faith: Why I Have Chosen to Maintain My Christian Religion in My Jewish Family
  By Jim Keen
• My Journey to Judaism
  By Shira Aliza

Professional View

• Dear Rabbi: Conversion and Intermarriage
  By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

News

• U.S. Jews Memorialize Ramon as Link between Stars and Earth
  By Rachel Pomerance
• News of Candidate's Jewish Roots Adds Another Flavor to Campaign
  By Peter Ephross
• Obituary of Nell Carter, A Jew-by-Choice
  By Naomi Pfefferman
• French Jews Fewer, Older and Intermarried - Yet Leaders Relieved
  By Philip Carmel
• Intent on Bringing Judaism to the Jews of Germany, the Conservative Movement Has Sent an Umprobably Rabbi to Lead the Way
  By Haim Shapiro

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Diamant Finds a Harbor: The Best-Selling Author Says Her Latest Book Is Not "The Red Tent" Revisited
  By Naomi Pfefferman
• Who Is Jewish? A Personal Reflection on a Theme in "God Is Great, I'm Not"
  By Louise Levesque Lopman

Holidays

• Mother-Daughter Team Rises Up to Bake a Bunch of Hamantashen: Plus Some Delicious Recipes
  By Linda Morel

Issue 103: Conversion, Part 4

My Personal Story

• From Fundamentalist Christianity to Judaism
  By Tasha Greer
• Converting for the Wrong Reasons in the Sixties
  By Jeanne Olmsted

Professional View

• Converting after a Second Marriage in Her Sixties
  By Elaine K. Markowitz
• Dear Rabbi: Conversion and Non-Jewish Family
  By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
• Dear Gil, I'm Thinking of Becoming a Christian
  By Gil Mann
• The Biblical Story of Ruth
  By Rabbi Marjorie Slome

Dialogue and Debate

• On Patrilineal Descent: An Informed Reform Jew's Lament
  By Robert Lappin

News

• Conversions Emerging as Major Issue Facing Adoptive Jewish Parents
  By Johanna Ginsberg
• You Don't Have to Be...
  A Forward Editorial
• Despite "Limitations," Population Study Will Be Released
  By Joe Berkofsky

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Three New Films Focus on the Holocaust: "Amen", "Blind Spot", and "God is Great, I'm Not"
  By Tom Tugend

Save Reform Outreach

• Reform Rabbis Launch Campaign to Restore Cut Outreach Positions
  By Joe Berkofsky

Issue 104: Multicultural and Multiracial Families, Part 1

My Personal Story

• Cultural Differences and Value Similarities: How We Deal with It All
  By Judi Brooks
• Navigating Culture and History
  By Karen Engels

Professional View

• The I Do's and Don'ts of Intercultural Marriage
  By Rebecca R. Kahlenberg

News

• "Lost Tribe" Emigres from India Adjust to Life after Making Aliyah
  By Jessica Steinberg

Dispatch from the Institute

• It's a Small World, After All... Intercultural Interfaith Marriage
  By Amy Perlin Posner

Save Reform Outreach

• Reform Rabbis Asking Temples to Fund Outreach Jobs
  By Forward Staff

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Tangled Roots: A Review
  By Ronnie Friedland
• A Conversation with Filmmaker Heidi Emberling
  By Ronnie Friedland

Issue 105: Multicultural and Multiracial Families, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Lily's Bat Mitzvah
  By Daniel Bender
• Bringing Home the Melting Pot
  By Peggy Dorf
• How a Church Organist Finds Harmony in an Interfaith Marriage
  By Teresa McMahon

News

• Finding Their Voice: Jews of Color Are Slowly Putting Their Concerns on the Communal Agenda
  By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
• Expanding the Face of Jewish Education
  By Elana Kahn-Oren
• 500 Years after the Inquisition, Spaniards Find Way back to Judaism
  By Jerome Socolovsky

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A New Book to Help Your Interfaith Marriage: Review of "Making a Successful Jewish Interfaith Marriage"
  By Jim Keen
• Far From Heaven
  By Naomi Pfefferman
• The Identity Dance: Actress Michelle St. John Used Personal Experiences as a Jewish Indian for Her Latest Role
  By Melissa Minkin

Issue 106: Passover and Easter

Passover

• Five Passover Readings You Can Add to Your Hagaddah
  By Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael
• Passover Seder Helpers: Grandchildren of Interfaith Families Pitch In
  By Zell Schulman
• Happy Passover... The Bible Never Happened!
  By Gil Mann

Easter

• My First Easter
  By Neal Cohen
• How to Transmit My Greek Orthodox Heritage, without Confusing My Jewish Daughter
  By Tanya Keith
• "Who Knows What Easter Means?"
  By Charlotte Honigman-Smith

Passover Reprints

• Ten Tips to Enliven the Seder: Ways to Delay That Fifth Question
  By Ron Wolfson
• Passover Recipes from the Eclectic Jewish Community in Australia
  By Linda Morel
• How One Observant Family Prepares for Passover: Plus a Chametz Bag Passover Craft for Kids
  By Rebecca Kotkin

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• In Dreams Begin Responsibility: A Review of "Girl Meets God"
  By Judy Bolton-Fasman

Resources

• Interfaith Marriage: A Compilation of Supportive Resources
  By Frances Kaufmann

Issue 107: Jewish-Muslim Relationships, Part 1

My Personal Story

• Oasis: An Arab-Jewish Romance in the Negev Desert
  By Loolwa Khazzoom
• Not Interfaith, Our Faith
  By Ara Katz

Professional View

• Embracing the Identity of "Mixed Family"
  By Nora Murad

Dispatch from the Institute

• So You Think You've Got Problems?
  By Hannah Greenstein

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A Trumpet in the Wadi
  By Ronnie Friedland

News on Jewish-Muslim Relationships

• Making Peace Personal: Jews, Muslims and Christians Reach Out and Discover "the Enemy Has a Face"
  By Nafeesa Syeed
• Sulha Dismantles Religious Walls, Co-Founder Says Here
  By Alexandra Wall

Save Reform Outreach

• Letter to Congregational Rabbis and Presidents
  From Rabbi Eric Yoffie

News

• Agency Raps Chief Rabbinate Over Conversion Policy
  By Noga Tarnopolsky

InterfaithFamily.com in the News

• Answer to a Prayer: More Synagogues Welcome Interfaith Families to Judaism
  By Cara Nissman

Issue 108: Jewish-Muslim Relationships, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Subtle Parenting Choices in Our American-Palestinian, Jewish-Muslim Family
  By Nora Murad
• Avoiding Bicultural Schizophrenia
  By Soshana Hebshi-Holt
• Sikh and Jew: East Meets West
  By Dan Koch
• A Star of David in the Land of The Crescent
  By Miriam Emons

Professional View

• Lessons Learned from Israel's Jewish/Muslim/Christian "Peace Village," Neve Shalom
  By Joseph L. Andrews
• Synagogue community in New Hampshire Offers a Helping Hand to Muslims in Its Midst
  By Rabbi Lev Ba'esh

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian Intermarriages in Israel: Romeo and Juliet Revisited
  By Robin Margolis
• Israeli Arab Stirs the Pot with Absurdist Film on Middle East
  By Tom Tugend

News

• Report: Intermarried Will Soon Be Majority
  By Joe Berkofsky
• Candidate with a Jewish Family Reaches Out to Potential Voters
  By Matthew Berger
• How to Be a Bar/Bat Mitzvah Guest: Now That You've Been Invited, A Guide to the Synagogue Service
  By Rabbi Daniel Kohn
• After Long Path, Female Rabbi Installed in German Community
  By Toby Axelrod

InterfaithFamily.com in the News

• Intermarriage, The Contest
  By Julie Wiener

Issue 109: Interdating, Part 1

My Personal Story

• A Journey in Faith and Love: The Struggles of an Interfaith Relationship
  By Lia del Sesto
• A Family, Not a Statistic
  By Neal Cohen
• Growing Up Orthodox and Coming to Terms with Interfaith Dating
  By Yoni Samlan

Professional View

• Phase One - The Dating Game
  By S. Courtney Nathan
• Choosing Judaism after an Interfaith Upbringing That Did "Both"
  By Ilene Springer

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A New Book to Help Your Interfaith Relationship
  By Catherine Fischer

Dialogue and Debate

• We Should Learn From Esther, Who Married Outside Her Community to Save Her People
  By Sarah Flicker

News

• Family Matters: Mixed Families, Jewish Choices
  By Amy Bluemfeld

Issue 110: Interdating, Part 2

My Personal Story

• A Parent's Job Is to Give "Roots and Wings"
  By Sandy Anderson
• A Jewish Mother's Advice
  By Miriam Weinstein

Professional View

• Can I trust That My Interfaith Partner Will Really Raise the Kids Jewish?
  By Rabbi Julie Greenberg

Dispatch from the Institute

• Interdating: Our First Conversation
  From the Jewish Outreach Institute

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• An Interview with Kirk Douglas
  By Golda Shira and Pauline Yearwood
• A Conversation with Jason Biggs
  By Naomi Pfefferman
• Do the Jews "Need" Geraldo?
  By Joe Berkofsky

Holidays

• Use Lots of Fruit at the Table to Harvest the Perfect Shavuot Meal
  By Linda Morel

Issue 111: Gay Interfaith Relationships, Part 1

My Personal Story

• Reconciliation: Embracing a Gay Interfaith Relationship
  By Daniel Seymour
• Adventures in Gay Interfaith Marriage
  By Leslie Lavine

Professional View

• What's Different about Gay Wedding Ceremonies?
  By Rabbi Miriam Jerris
• Lessons from the Margins
  By Karen Erlichman

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Lost No More: Director Lea Pool Explores Bias, Using Star-Crossed Lesbian Lovers
  By Naomi Pfefferman
• Former Political Hand Embraces Kid's Conversion
  By Ross Schneiderman

Dialogue and Debate

• When Jewish Is Too Jewish
  By Gary Wexler

Issue 112: Gay Interfaith Relationships, Part 2

My Personal Story

• In Between
  By Eric Pilner
• Gay Interfaith Parenting
  By Cynthia Kalish
• Negotiating Identities: Queer Interfaith Couples Share Their Stories
  By Rachel Barenblat

Professional View

• Bridging Differences in Gay and Lesbian Interfaith Partnerships
  By Rabbi Amber Powers

Dispatch from the Institute

• Challenges in Outreach to GLBT Interfaith Couples
  By Jeff Scheckner

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A Brilliant Exploration of the Spiritual Font of Three Faiths: A Review of "Abraham"
  By Marlena Thompson

News

• Locked Doors
  By Vered Levy-Barzilai
• Jerusalem of Pink
  By Jenny Hazan
• Jewish, Arab MKs Slam Order to Deny Citizenship to Children of Israeli-Palestinian Couples
  By Dan Izenberg

Issue 113: Interfaith Divorce Issues

My Personal Story

• Keeping the Interfaith, for My Dad
  By Wilson E. Baer
• Single, and Together at Last: The Story of Kay Harris
  By Debra B. Darvick
• Interfaith Peace During Our Marriage, Hell After
  By Carol Churgin

Professional View

• Interfaith Divorce, a Life Passage That It Is Possible to Do Well
  By Rabbi Julie Greenberg
• Interfaith Divorce in an Imperfect World
  By Judith Erger

Dialogue and Debate

• Ruth's Inspiration
  By Hillel Halkin

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• "Boy Meets Goy" Vexes "Sex" As Show Enters Final Season
  By Lisa Keys
• Former Teen Heartthrob Finds Peace in Academia after Years in Hollywood
  By Buzzy Gordon

News

• Interfaith Couples Get Help Navigating Sticky Situations
  By Joe Mullin
• "Who Is a Jew" Redux: A Forward Editorial
  A Forward Editorial
• "Who's a Jew" Battle Flares In Jerusalem
  By Elli Wohlgelernter

Issue 114: Interfaith Step-Family Issues

My Personal Story

• Mixing without Blending
  By Peg Schweitzer
• Dolphin Skins in the Desert and the Making of a Miraculous Bar Bitzvah
  By Beth Gilbert
• American as Apple Pie
  By Susan C. Richards
• Hybrids Aren't Just Roses
  By Carolyn Weiss Rubel

Dispatch from the Institute

• Divorce and the Interfaith Couple
  By Gail Quets

Dialogue and Debate

• Do We Want to Be Who We Really Are?
  By Gary Tobin

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Research for cookbook Leads Italian Author to Jewish Roots
  By Ruth Gruber

News

• Where Lamaze Meets L'Chaim
  By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Issue 115: Weddings

My Personal Story

• Marrying Off a Daughter As a Values Clarification Exercise
  By Ruth Nemzoff
• Have You Heard the One about the Priest and the Rabbi?
  By Teresa McMahon
• My Big Fat Non-Jewish Wedding
  By Bryna Lee Bass

Professional View

• God Loves Love: Why I Officiate and Co-Officiate at Interfaith Marriages
  By Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn
• The Best Gift for Your Unborn Children
  By Rabbi Julie Greenberg

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A New Book To Guide Interfaith, Intercultural Wedding Celebrations
  By Cathering Fischer
• Kapler Hoping to Rejuvenate Career
  By Jeff Goodman

News

• The Do-It-Yourself Ethos of "I Do"
  By Lisa Keys
• Wedding Customs: Old, New, and "Renovated"
  By Marlena Thompson

Dialogue and Debate

• Applying the Lessons of the Torah to Today
  By Rabbi Ismar Schorsch

Issue 116: Interfaith Relationships

My Personal Story

• Working Out Our Wedding Ceremony Led to Working Out Our Marital Issues
  By Mindy McMahon
• Interfaith Curveballs: Issues I Hadn't Anticipated
  By Jim Keen
• The Road to Acceptance
  By Abby Spotts
• The Gift of God: How My Relationship with My Daughter Led Me to Religious Observance
  By Nina Amir Lacey

Professional View

• A Rabbi's Perspective on the Subtle Issues That Can Arise in an Interfaith Marriage
  By Rabbi Elias Lieberman

Dialogue and Debate

• An Unorthodox View of Who's Orthodox
  By David Suissa

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A Novel about Three Secular Jewish Friends and Their Non-Jewish Wives
  By Susan Katz Miller
• An Interview with Adam Herz, Screenwriter (American Pie Series)
  By Naomi Pfefferman

News

• We Don't Need No Stinkin' Religion: A New Cultural Center Caters to the Secular Members of the Tribe
  By Brad Pilcher

Issue 117: The Winners of the InterfaithFamily.com Network Essay Contest

Announcing the Contest Winners

• The Winners of the InterfaithFamily.com Network Essay Contest
  From the InterfaithFamily.com Network

Lessons from the Contest

• What We Can Learn From the InterfaithFamily.com Network Essay Contest
  By Edmund Case

News

• A Snapshot of American Jewry
  By Joe Berkofsky

Contest Grand Prize

• Hadassah
  By Andi Rosenthal

Claiming My Jewish Roots

• First Prize: I Am Not a Crisis
  By Anna Mills
• Second Prize: The Battle for My Soul
  By Nick Zaller
• Third Prize: My Glass House
  By Johanna Karasik

Raising Jewish Children

• First Prize: The Letter
  By Gary Goldhammer
• Second Prize: The A-B-C's of Interfaith Parenting
  By Wendy Harris
• Third Prize: How Can You Raise Your Daughters Jewish?
  By Rosemary DiDio Brehm

Engaging in Jewish Life

• First Prize: Out on the Porch
  By Annie Modesitt
• Second Prize: In Between
  By Eric Pilner
• Third Prize: On the Doorposts of Our House
  By Ellen S. Glazer

Loving Jewish Grandchildren

• First Prize: Beatles Wisdom
  By Amy Elkes
• Second Prize: A Mother's Feelings on Intermarriage
  By Zelma Sharff Schulman
• Third Prize: The Unbroken Chain
  By David Weintraub

Under Age 15

• Special Prize: Keeping the Interfaith, for My Dad
  By Wilson E. Baer
• Special Prize: Chrewish
  By Jackson Davidow

Issue 118: The Jewish High Holidays

My Personal Story

• Finding a Home
  By Rachel Barenblat
• Creating Holiday Traditions for Your Family
  By Ruth Nemzoff
• Anticipating My First High Holy Days as a Widow
  By Ronnie Caplane
• Spending the High Holidays with The Interfaith Community
  By Julie Slotnik Sturm

Professional View

• Welcoming a Non-Jewish Person into the Family
  By Rabbi Julie Greenberg

Dialogue and Debate

• Community Service as an Expression of Fundamental Jewish Values
  By Jerry Levine

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Conservative Jews and Intermarriage: A New Resource
  By Judith Bolton-Fasman

News

• Survey Shows Conservative Judaism's Numbers Dropping
  By Nacha Cattan

Dispatch from the Institute

• How to Make the NJPS a Success
  By Paul Golin

High Holiday Recipes

• Creating a Rosh Hashanah Dinner Tradition
  By Jayne Cohen
• Yom Kippur Ends and a New Day Begins
  By Zell Schulman

Issue 119: Longterm Interfaith Relationships

My Personal Story

• Ten Tips to Avoiding Conflict in an Interfaith Marriage
  By Jim Keen
• Interfaith or Intercultural?
  By Sue Feder
• Shabbat Brought Us Together
  By Cheryl Coon
• Thirty-One Intermarried Years Later
  By Jacqueline Martins

Dialogue and Debate

• Beyond Interfaith Marriage
  By Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
• Rabbi's Message: Reach Out to Interfaith Families
  By Rabbi Carl Perkins
• A New Model for Jewish Identity
  By Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Raising Self-Reliant Children
  By Rabbi Bruce Kadden

InterfaithFamily.com in the News

• Mixed Families, Mixed Messages
  By Joe Eskenazi

Issue 120: The Importance of a Warm Welcome: Special for the Reform Movement Biennial

My Personal Story

• Our Journey to Judaism
  By Kathy Miller
• Our Oy Goy Boy
  By Mark Young
• Our Interfaith Family: Blessed with Love
  By Jane Young
• Intermarriage Spurs Renewal of Faith
  By Keren McGinity

Dialogue and Debate

• Turning Swords into Plowshares
  By Rabbi Jane Litman
• The Real Truth about the 1990 Population Survey: How Individual Lives Were Affected
  By Rabbi Sam Gordon

News

• Reform Conversions in Israel on the Increase among Russian Immigrants
  By Abigail Radoszkowicz
• Demographic Solutions
  By Rabbi Michael Boyden

InterfaithFamily.com in the News

• Learning from Interfaith Families
  By Edmund Case
• Rabbi Ronne Friedman's Interview of Edmund Case

Issue 121: Growing Up in Interfaith Families

My Personal Story

• Feeling Jewish, and Also Enjoying My Christian Cultural Heritage
  By Marissa Green
• Coming Home
  By Jessica Oudin
• Searching for My Jewish Self
  By Dara Suchke
• To Max, from Santa
  By Max Reusing
• Unwrapped Gifts
  By Samie Facciolo

News

• Reform Approaches Convention with Mix of Tradition and Creativity
  By Joe Berkofsky
• Yoffie Calls for Greater Links among Reform Jews
  By Joe Berkofsky
• What's in a Name? Reform Change Makes "Judaism" Front and Center
  By Joe Berkofsky

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Interfaith Romances Blossom on TV
  By Benjamin Friedland

Dialogue and Debate

• How Jewish Are We?
  By Rabbi Stephen Pearce

InterfaithFamily.com in the News

• Intermarriage Conference: Expert Calls Intermarriage Key Issue for U.S. Jews
  By Robert Wiener

Issue 122: Patrilineal Jews: Growing Up in Interfaith Families with Jewish Fathers

My Personal Story

• Untitled for Now
  By Hana Daley
• The Gift of Being Jewish
  By Paul Frankle
• My Religion, My Choice
  By Tracy Feinstein
• my choice/my identity/my struggle
  By Loolwa Khazzoom

News

• In a Russian Industrial Metropolis, Reform Community Turns Chabad
  By Adam B. Ellick

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Conversations with the Producer, the Screenwriter and the Star of "The Human Stain"
  By Naomi Pfefferman
• 35 and Single? Put on a Push-Up Bra and Market Yourself, Author Says
  By Alexandra J. Wall

Issue 123: The December Holidays

My Personal Story

• Turning the Dilemma into a Tradition
  By Jemi Kostiner Mansfield
• Not Your Typical Jewish Family
  By Johanna Karasik
• December Holiday Issues
  By Nancy Laufer
• Jewish Plus Christmas
  By Brianne Nadeau

Professional View

• Talking about Baby Jesus
  By Rabbi Julie Greenberg

Hanukkah Celebrations Plus Recipes

• Family Hanukkah Celebrations: Plus Recipes
  By Jayne Cohen
• Hanukkah - Passing On This Grandmother's Traditions: Plus Recipes
  By Zell Schulman

InterfaithFamily.com in the News

• Interfaith Families Raising Jews Still Wrestle with Role of Christmas
  By Joe Berkofsky
• Circle Complete for Jewish Convert
  By Joe Berkofsky

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• How Children's Books Can Help Intermarried Families Handle the December Holidays
  By Cheryl Coon
• Chrismukkah: O.C.'s Answer to the December Dilemma
  By Cheryl Coon

Dialogue and Debate

• Nuances of Hanukkah Story Should Be Kept Alive - and Changed
  By Rabbi Brad Hirschfield

News

• Giving Hanukkah Gifts Despite It All
  By Jane Ulman

Dispatch from the Institute

• Sukkah Building at Home Depot
  By Paul Golin

Issue 124: Extended Family Relationships, Part 1

My Personal Story

• Flexibility is Key
  By Nancy Laufer
• An Email Conversation between Father and Daughter
  By Gail Wertheimer
• The Clash of Religion: A Sister's Point of View
  By Marie Bello

Professional View

• Living Well in the Extended Interfaith Family
  By Karen Kushner

Dialogue and Debate

• Love and Intermarriage: Why I Won't Sit Shiva If My Children Marry Gentiles
  By Vanessa Ochs

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Something's Gotta Give: A Conversation with Director and Screenwriter Nancy Meyers
  By Naomi Pfefferman
• Interfaith Couples and Relationship Issues in "Angels in America"
  By Ronnie Friedland

News

• NJPS Findings on Jewish Students Drive Debate about Interfaith Future
  By Joe Berkofsky
• Chanukah Outreach Event in Prague Draws Miraculous Number of People
  By Magnus Bennett
• Coming Clean about Yule Tunes
  By Linda Bachmann