2006

Issue 175: Grandparenting, Part 2

January 17, 2006

Featured Articles

• Keeping "From Generation to Generation" Open for ALL Grandparents
  By Eve Coulson
• When Your Child Intermarries
  By Phoebe F. Kerness
• Thoughts on Being a Bubbie
  By Mae Tupa

Columnist

• By the Waters of Babylon
  By Andi Rosenthal

News and Opinion

• The Pain of the Outsider
  By Rabbi Elias Lieberman
• Opposition to Mission to Bring Non-Jewish Spouses into Fold
  By Jacob Sugerman
• Enlisting Day School Grads in Outreach to "Cultural" Jews
  By Rabbi Yehuda Sarna

Arts and Entertainment

• Spielberg's War on Terror Begins in Munich
  By Michael Fox 
• Ambitious Illuminated Casts Poignant Light
  By Michael Fox

Issue 176: Divorce

January 31, 2006

Featured Articles

• Our Blended Family: A Religious Spectrum
  By Ellen S. Glazer
• What a Blessing: My Re-marriage and Our Interfaith Family
  By Barbara A. Miksch
• Handling Religion in Our Blended Family
  By Paula Hellman

Columnist

• Dear Wendy: My Intermarried Son Is Getting Divorced
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer

News and Opinion

• Overlapping Faiths: High Intermarriage Rates, High Divorce Rates--What Happens When They Mix?
  By Leisah Namm
• Appeals Court Backs Jewish Dad's Bid in Custody Battle
  By Enid Weiss
• Argentine Custody Battle over Religion
  By Florencia Arbiser
• Caught Between Two Faiths
  By Stewart Ain

Arts and Entertainment

• San Francisco's Jewish Leftist Tradition Reemerges in Documentary
  By Michael Fox 

Issue 177: Interfaith Families and Jewish Summer Camps

February 14, 2006

Featured Articles

• Culture Strengthens My Religious Identity at a Jewish Summer Camp
  By Wendy Viola
• Jewish Camping for Me and My Interfaith Children
  By Jill Simon Miskanic
• Welcoming Interfaith and All Kids to Our Inter-Denominational Jewish Summer Camp
  By Ken Kramarz

Another Camper's Experience

• Canteens, Bug Repellant, and an Interfaith Identity
  By Joelle Asaro Berman

More Intermarried Parents on Their Kids' Jewish Camp Experience

• Have Faith in the Camping Experience
  By Jodi Matson
• Progressive Politics and Jewish Camp, Combined
  By Theo Forbath

More Directors on Kids from Interfaith Families in Their Camps and Summer Programs

• Building Jewish Souls One Smile at A Time
  By Jordan Dale
• A Twist of Faith
  By Johanna Karasik

Issue 178: Teaching Jewish Values

February 28, 2006

Featured Articles

• Teaching Jewish Values to Your Children
  By Rabbi Lev Baesh
• Is Every Value a Jewish Value?
  By Alina Adams

More Teaching Jewish Values Articles

• Raising Children with Jewish Values
  By Lois Shenker
• Jewish Values Are Everyone's Values
  By Gary Goldhammer
• My Daughter's Religious Questions Drew Us to Synagogue
  By Joanne Catz Hartman

Columnist
Star/Crossed: Jewish Stories from an Interfaith Life

• Havdalah
  By Andi Rosenthal

Arts and Entertainment

• Solo Loeb Seeks a Duet--on Camera
  By Naomi Pfefferman

Newsmaker

• Turin Games Provide Another Home for "Wandering" Jewish Hockey Star
  By Chanan Tigay

News and Opinion

• Reinventing Ritual: Nonprofit Steers Unaffiliated Through Maze of Jewish Options
  By Sue Fishkoff & Alexandra J. Wall

Purim Falls on March 14 This Year

• Purim Recipes: How Food Can Help a Jewish Girl Land Both a Mensch and a King
  By Linda Morel

Issue 179: The Outreach Debate

March 14, 2006

Featured Articles

• The Next Big Thing Is Now: Outreach to the Intermarried
  By Edmund Case
• Real Realism on Intermarriage
  By Jack Wertheimer and Steven Bayme

More Articles on The Outreach Debate

• Letters to the Editor of the Forward
  By Edmund Case, Sherry Israel, and Kerry Olitzky and Paul Golin
• Between the Lines: Let The Outreach Debate Be Heard
  By Gary Rosenblatt
• Welcoming Non-Jewish Spouses and Converts to Judaism
  By Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie
• Revisiting and Promoting Conversion
  By Steven Bayme and Jack Wertheimer
• Letter to the Editor of The Jewish Week
  By Edmund Case
• When Intermarriage Hits Home
  By Gary Rosenblatt

Outreach News

• Conservative Synagogues Join Forces to Welcome Interfaith Families
  By Johanna Ginsberg
• European Jewish Leaders Confront Questions of Apathy, Intermarriage
  By Dinah A. Spritzer 

Today (March 14) is Purim

• Purim and Intermarriage
  By Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael

Issue 180: Passover and Easter

March 28, 2006

Featured Articles

• From Easter Eggs to Afikomen, Hunting for a Deeper Meaning
  By Brianne Kruger Nadeau
• A Secular, Blended Passover
  By Michael Felsen
• Trying to Keep the Tradition Alive
  By Marlene Beach

More Passover Articles

• Five Interfaith Passover Readings You Can Add to Your Hagaddah
  By Rabbi Rayzel Raphael
• Dear Wendy: A Passover Question from a Mother-in-Law to Be
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer 
• Passover in Paris: Plus Recipes
  By Jayne Cohen
• My First Seder
  By Alice C. Waugh
• The Holiday Gift of Music
  By Rabbi Julie Greenberg
• A Multicultural Passover, a Solemn Easter, and a Celebration of Spring
  By Rabbi Miriam S. Jerris, Ph.D.
• A Kosher-for-Passover Crisis
  By Danielle Freni
• Sharing Passover with Guests of Any Religion
  By Danielle Stillman

Issue 181: Interfaith Families and the Holocaust

April 11, 2006

Featured Articles

• Where Do We Come From? Do We Know Where We Are Going?
  By Sol Levin
• Seeking the Light: A Child of Holocaust Survivors Reclaims Judaism
  By Hedi Molnar
• Visiting Auschwitz: The Unexpected Aftermath
  By Alex Romano

More Holocaust articles

• Holocaust Stories
  By Amy Elkes
• Night Rider
  By Josh Fischel
• My Generation and the Holocaust
  By Shana Franklin 

Holocaust News

• In Study, Youth See Holocaust and Jewish Culture as Keys to Identities
  By Sue Fishkoff

Holocaust Resources for Families of Holocaust Survivors

• Online Resources for Families of Holocaust Survivors
  By The InterfaithFamily.com Staff

Columnist
Star/Crossed: Jewish Stories from an Interfaith Life

• Jewish Geography
  By Andi L Rosenthal

Arts and Entertainment

• Judaism and Christianity--A New Framework for Mutual Understanding
  By Marlena Thompson

Issue 182: The Conversion Controversy

April 25, 2006

Featured Articles

• Enough is Enough
  By Edmund Case and Micah Sachs
• I Am A Jew
  By Ellen Bernstein
• True Confessions from a Convert's Wife
  By Bonni Goldberg

More Conversion Articles

• A Jew-by-Choice's Thoughts on the Reform Movement's Initiative to Invite Conversion, Plus Interviews with Others
  By Gina Hagler
• A Service of Welcoming and Inclusion: Welcoming a Jew-by-Choice without Alienating Non-Jews
  By Rabbi Lev Baesh
• Opening Our Gates and Arms: Adopting Judaism, Adopting Jews
  By Miriam Jerris
• The Turning Point
  By Elaine K. Markowitz

Conversion News and Opinion

• Letter to the Editor of the New Jersey Jewish News, Responding to Edmund Case
  By Steven M. Cohen
• The Hour: Open a Secular Door to Judaism
  By Leonard Fein
• New Study Raises Key Questions: How to Promote Active Converts?
  By Rachel Silverman
• Open Orthodox Conversion to Intermarried Couples, Urges Group
  By Larry Luxner

Issue 183: Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and Interfaith Families

May 9, 2006

Featured Articles

• How My Non-Jewish Father Embraced My Interfaith Family's Bar Mitzvah
  By Sue Repko
• Leading the Way through Unfamiliar Terrain: The Bar Mitzvah Year
  By Gina Hagler
• To Become or Not to Become a Bar Mitzvah
  By Laurie Biundo

More Bar/Bat Mitzvah Articles

• How Kosher Is Christy's Bat Mitzvah?
  By Cantor Ron Li-Paz

Interfaith Families and the Conservative Movement

• Reaching Out to Interfaith Children
  By Rabbi Jerome Epstein
• Schorsch: "Patrilineal" OK for Ramah Campers
  By Doug Chandler

More on Conversion

• Wanting Daddy to Be Jewish, Too
  By Joanne Catz Hartman
• "In the Mix": Conversionary Tactics
  By Julie Wiener

Opinion

• Not Really Jewish?
  By Rachel Sarah

Columnist

• Dear Wendy: Confused About Role of Religion in My Life and My Future Children's
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer 

Books

• Everything You Need to Know to Avoid Awkward Moments in Other People's Religious Ceremonies
  By Marlena Thompson

Issue 184: Babies and Interfaith Families

May 23, 2006

Featured Articles

• Parenting for a Positive Jewish Identity
  By Josh Segal
• At Last Becoming a Parent, with the Support of My Congregation
  By Pam Chernoff
• In This "Opt In, Opt Out" World," It's Hard to Remain a Jew
  By Dan Pine

More Articles on Babies/Parenting

• "In the Mix": A Rosenblum by Any Other Name...
  By Julie Wiener
• A Journey of Faith: Step by Step, Beginning with the Birth of Our First Child
  By Sallie W. Gotoff
• Joys of Chavurah (AKA, "The Jewish Party Thing")
  By Joanne Catz Hartman
• Making the Transition to Parenting Easier: A Review of The New Jewish Baby Book
  By Cheryl F. Coon

Columnist

• Star/Crossed: Jewish Stories from an Interfaith Life: Sisters, Set in Stone
  By Andi Rosenthal

More on the Conversion Controversy

• Conversion is Not an Outreach Strategy
  by David Ellenson and Kerry Olitzky

More on the Conservative Movement and Intermarriage

• Reaching Out to the Intermarried
  By Rabbi David Booth
• Lessons on Intermarriage from Abraham
  by Rabbi Dr. Barry Leff

Issue 185: Multicultural Interfaith Families

June 6, 2006

Featured Articles

• Waiting Outside the Promised Land
  By Lesley Williams
• Nuclear (Family) Fusion: Seeing the World through Another's Eyes
  By Alina Adams
• The Challenge of Being Me
  By Kyra Davis

More Articles on Multicultural Interfaith Families

• Being "Both": Claiming Dual Identity as a Biracial Jew
  By Lisa W. Rosenberg
• She Wants Revenge's Justin Warfield: A Profile in Black and White
  By Karla S. Blume
• Finding Answers in Judaism: D.C. Author/Educator Celebrates Dual Identities
  By Jacqueline Sternberg
• Common Values Shared between a Jew and a Muslim
  By Esther Meyers

News and Opinion

• Bowing to Reality, Conservative Shuls Do More to Reach Out to the Intermarried
  By Sue Fishkoff
• A Rabbi's Response to Eric H. Yoffie's Conversion Message
  By Rabbi Sam Gordon

Columnist

• Dear Wendy: Giving Our Future Children a Faith
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer

Issue 186: Accepting Our Children's Choices/Weddings

June 27, 2006

Featured Articles

• What Is a Parent to Do?
  By Carol S. Targum
• We Have the Bride and Groom--All We Need Are the Parents
  By Hal Schneider
• When Our Kids Get Married
  By S. Courtney Nathan

More Articles on Weddings

• Our Wedding: A Personalized Jewish-Catholic Interfaith Ceremony
  By Jennifer Kellogg
• What's a Wedding without Elephants?
  By Zack Kushner
• To Officiate or Not? Mixed Marriage on Agenda at Reform Rabbis' Parley
  By Sue Fishkoff
• Preventing Interfaith Problems
  By Rabbi Julie Greenberg
• Embracing Interfaith Couples Only Strengthens Congregations
  By Rabbi Lawrence Raphael
• On Becoming a Justice of the Peace
  By Elise Klein

Additional Weddings Resource

• Tips for Parents of Children Who Are Intermarrying
  By InterfaithFamily.com Staff

Arts and Entertainment

• Avoiding Heartbreak No "Petite" Feat
  By Naomi Pfefferman

Issue 187: Travel

July 11, 2006

Featured Articles

• A Year without Questions
  By Amy Elkes
• Destination Europe
  By Steven Michalove
• This Land Is My Land, but Maybe Not Your Land
  By Faye Rapoport

More Articles on Travel

• Memoirs of a Pizza Bagel
  By Joelle Asaro Berman
• Everything Old Is New Again
  By Zack Kushner
• Krakow's Resurgent Jewish Culture Enjoyed by Jews and Non-Jews Alike
  By Carolyn Slutsky

Focus on Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes

• Isn't Half-Jewish Better Than Not Jewish at All?
  By Lila Hanft
• Half Holy, Wholly Half
  By Anthony Hecht
• Pride, Prejudice and Much More: Reflections on Growing up in Interfaith Families
  By Marlena Thompson

News and Opinion

• Israel's Top Rabbinate Rejects Orthodox Conversions as Well
  By Chanan Tigay

Issue 188: Hindu-Jewish Relationships

July 25, 2006

Featured Articles

• Uniting of the Tribes: Our Hindu-Jewish Wedding
  By Jason Jay and Alaka Ray
• Your Daughter Has Something to Tell You...
  By J. Singh
• Seeds
  By Reika Dutta

More Articles on Hindu-Jewish Relationships

• Walking Seven Circles
  By Tony Castleman
• Coming to Terms with My Son's Choices
  By Sallie Teitelbaum Castleman
• From Bollywood to the Sands of Jerusalem
  By Aimee Ginsburg
• A Moment with... Ruth Prawler Jhabvala
  By Nonna Gorilovskaya
• Shooting a Film and Repairing a Complicated Mother-Daughter Relationship: A Review of Shooting Water
  By Sneha Sastry

Columnist

• Dear Wendy: Will My Intermarried Son's Children be Jewish?
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer

From Our Article Archives

• Passage to India
  By Carol Kort

Issue 189: Dealing with Non-Jewish Relatives

August 15, 2006

Featured Articles

• A Grandmother's Gift
  By Ellen S. Glazer
• When a Child Converts
  By Rabbi Diane Cohen
• Homecomings
  By Leona Junguzza

More Articles on Dealing with Non-Jewish Relatives

• Are We Still An Interfaith Family?
  By Esther Schory
• Making the Cut
  By Julie Wiener

From Our Article Archives

• Living Well in the Extended Interfaith Family
  By Karen Kushner

News and Opinion

• Victim Hailed as Dedicated Convert
  By Rebecca Spence
• Lessons in Jewish Ways
  By Frances Grandy Taylor
• Dad, Daughter, Dog and a Talk about God
  By Jim Keen
• Rocking the Cradle: A Mid-Life Conversion Story
  By Carol Weiss Rubel

Arts and Entertainment

• Meeting the Jewish Parents, Spanish-Style
  By Michael Fox

Issue 190: Responding to Negative Comments about Intermarriage

August 29, 2006

Featured Articles

• Interfaith Ignorance is All in the Family
  By Gary Goldhammer
• Tips for Responding to Insensitive Comments about Interfaith Families
  By Sarah Litvin
• A Newfound Love and a Lost Friendship
  By Heather Lazar

More Articles about Responding to Negative Comments about Intermarriage

• Opening Yourself to Danger
  By Zachary Kushner
• Overcoming Our Religious Differences
  By Madhavi Kushner

From Our Article Archives

• An Email Conversation between Father and Daughter
  By Gail Wertheimer

Focus on Inside Intermarriage

• When We First Discover Our Religious and Cultural Differences
  By Jim Keen
• Can It Be Done? New Book Shows How Intermarriage Can Work
  By John M. Blumers
• Q&A with Jim Keen, Author of Inside Intermarriage
  Interviewed by Ronnie Friedland

News and Opinion

• "In the Mix": Looking Beyond the Roadmap
  By Julie Wiener

Print entire issue (PDF)

Issue 191: High Holidays and Ramadan

September 12, 2006

Featured Articles

• Breaking Bread--Three Ways
  By "Anonymous"
• Different Religions, Same Guilt
  By Susan Katz
• "A Good Muslim Wife"
  By Deborah Semel

More Articles on the High Holidays and Ramadan

• When Ramadan and Rosh Hashanah Meet
  By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
• Different Yet the Same: The Journey into an Unfamiliar House of Worship
  By Melissa Feldman
• The High Holidays: New Year, New Traditions
  By Jim Keen
• Make-Ahead Recipes for Yom Kippur
  By Linda Morel

From Our Article Archives

• Understanding the High Holidays: A Primer for Non-Jewish Partners
  By Rabbi Jonathan Kraus
• Six Tips for Interfaith Families Facing the High Holidays
  by InterfaithFamily.com

Arts and Entertainment

• A Novel Idea: Two Writers Talk about Their Interfaith Characters
  By Marlena Thompson and Mark London Williams

Print entire issue (PDF)

Issue 192: Attending Services of Another Faith

September 26, 2006

Featured Articles

• A Loving Marriage, A Spiritual Divide
  By Ellen Glazer
• Praying in Our Interfaith Family
  By Jim Keen
• Sharing Services
  By Edith Rye

More Articles on Attending Services

• Similarities and Differences between Catholic and Jewish Worship
  By Laura Thor
• Some Rabbis Use Services to Honor Non-Jewish Congregants
  By Sue Fishkoff
• Peeking behind the Church Doors
  By Cheryl F. Coon
• Sikh Temple Becomes Window into Judaism
  By Joanne Catz Hartman

From Our Article Archive

• How I Prepared My Kids for Their First Mass and Their Aunt's Catholic Wedding
  By Jeri Zeder

Focus on Out of Faith

• From Agony to Acceptance--Documentary Delves into Intermarriage
  By Tom Tugend
• On Out of Faith and Intermarriage: The Producer's Perspective
  By L. Mark DeAngelis
• On Out of Faith and Intermarriage: The Director's Perspective
  By Lisa Leeman

Issue 193: Dealing with Interfaith Identity

October 10, 2006

Featured Articles

• How I Programmed My Life
  By Sarah R. Heilbronner
• What Would Superman Do?
  By Jason Bortnick
• An Interfaith Child Thinks about His (Hypothetical) Interfaith Children
  By Josh Fischel

More Articles on Interfaith Identity

• Mixed Blessings: A Religious Journey That Has Led Nowhere
  By Jennifer L. Gordon
• Untitled
  By Maya Gottfried
• JDate Here I Come...
  By Rachel Sarah
• Interfaith Doesn't Mean Having to Say Goodbye to My Jewish Heritage
  By Joanne Catz Hartman

From Our Article Archive

• How My Italian-American Catholic Mother Strengthened My Jewish Identity: Lessons in Intermarriage
  By Eric Lesser

News

• Study Finds Surprising Facts about Children of Mixed Marriages
  By Alexandra J. Wall

Arts and Entertainment

• Shmoozin' with... Lauren Storm
  By Gerri Miller
• A Jewish, Chinese and Gay Movie Explores Several Identities
  By Oliver B. Pollak

Issue 194: Outreach Success Stories

October 24, 2006

Featured Articles

• Lessons from Three Interfaith Families
  By Sarah Litvin
• The Woman Who Helped a Methodist Join a Synagogue
  By Pam Chernoff
• The Road Taken
  By Hedi Molnar

More Articles on Outreach

• When "Half-Jews" Marry Jews
  By Alexandra J. Wall
• Welcoming Synagogue Led Me to Judaism
  By Lawrence MacDonald
• This Baby Naming Won't Be the Same
  By Julie Wiener

From Our Article Archive

• He Never Gave Up on Anybody
  By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

News

• Interfaith Couples Find Solace in JCCSF Group
  By Angela Priven
• Circle of Friends: Non-Jewish Mothers of Jewish Children Set to Meet
  By Jane Calem Rosen

Arts and Entertainment

• Sex, God, Christmas and Jews
  By Faye Rapoport
• Daniel Pearl Documentary Fails to Live Up to Its Subject's Standards
  By Michael Fox

Print entire issue (PDF)

Issue 195: Adoption

November 7, 2006

Featured Articles

• A Conspicuous Family
  By Gina Hagler
• International Adoption and Interfaith Families
  By Vicki Peterson
• Pizza, Noodles and Latkes
  By Hedi Molnar

More Articles on Adoption

• Does Adoption Make Us An Interfaith Family?
  By Debra A.W. Berger
• A Mother's Pride
  By Susan Freudenheim
• Don't Think of Me as Different--I'm Not
  By Rachel Core

News on Adoption

• "Fulfilling a Mitzvah": As More Jews Adopt, Perceptions of Jewish Identity Change
  By Doug Chandler
• When Jews Can't Multiply: Pain of Infertility Hits Hard for Many
  By Eric Fingerhut
• Jewish Moms, Chinese Daughters
  By Merri Rosenberg
• Interfaith Parents, Chinese Children
  By Merri Rosenberg
• Dual Identity, Double the Questions: It's Not Easy Being Jewish and Chinese
  By Sarah Price Brown

New Birth Ceremonies Resource

• Guide to Birth Ceremonies for Interfaith Families
  By InterfaithFamily.com

Arts and Entertainment

• NPR Host Scott Simon: Riding on Airwaves
  By Jeff Rubin

From Our Article Archive

• Cheese Blintzes: An Adoptee Discovers Her Jewish Roots
  By Dina Beach Lynch

Issue 196: Jewish-Buddhist Relationships and Jubus

November 21, 2006

Featured Articles

• To Make One's Life a Blessing
  By Jonathan Chao Burnston
• Momo and Matzoh: Our Tibetan-Jewish Marriage
  By Julia Gutman
• Moving Beyond Grief
  By Paulette Mann

More Articles on Jewish-Buddhist Relationships and Jubus

• Smartmom: Meditating on My Jewish Identity
  By Louise Crawford
• At Auschwitz, Buddhist Meditation Set Me Free
  By Perry Garfinkel

From Our Article Archive

• Our Interfaith Relationship
  By Steve Ettinger

News and Opinion on the Boston Jewish Community Study

• Investment in Outreach is Paying Dividends in Boston, Study Suggests
  By Sue Fishkoff
• Outreach Miracle?
  By Stewart Ain
• Engaging the Intermarried
  By Ed Case and Kathy Kahn

More News

• Nancy Pelosi's Interfaith Family
  By Jennifer Jacobson
• Expansive Chuppah: Washington Hebrew OKs Officiation
  By Paula Amann

Arts and Entertainment

• Jew-Bu Detective Story Blends Two Cultures
  By Michael Fox
• Happy Ever After
  By Pat Sherman
• Interview with Elinor Lipman
  By Ronnie Friedland

Print entire issue (PDF)

Issue 197: The December Dilemma

December 5, 2006

Featured Articles

• Holiday au Lait
  By Annie Modesitt
• What We Learned from the Third Annual December Holidays Survey
  By Micah Sachs and Edmund Case
• Fearing the Holidays
  By Kim Mortellite
• Fear Not!
  By Dawn C. Kepler and Karen Kushner

More Articles on the December Dilemma

• 'Tis the Season to Be Ironic
  By Jim Keen
• A Magen David on Our Christmas Tree
  By Simon Round

From our Article Archive

• Handling the December Holidays: Ten Tips from InterfaithFamily.com
  By Edmund Case and Ronnie Friedland
• Turning the Dilemma into a Tradition
  By Jemi Kostiner Mansfield
• O' Christmas Tree, O' Christmas Tree--You're So Much More than--Foliage!
  By Marlena Thompson

News and Opinion

• Intermarriage Tipping Point Long Past, But Institions Must Now Catch Up
  By Paul Golin

Arts and Entertainment

• The Nativity Story: Responses of an Interfaith Couple
  By Tracy Hahn-Burkett and Paul Burkett
• Interview with Scott Simon
  By Ronnie Friedland
• A Play that Illumines a Generation
  By Lisa Traiger

Issue 198: Approaches to Christmas

December 19, 2006

Featured Articles

• The Spouse Who Stole Christmas
  By Sue Eisenfeld
• Bringing Christmas Back
  By Gina Hagler
• Don't Bring Christmas Back
  By Dawn C. Kepler
• Learning to Let Go of Christmas
  By Alice Hale

More Articles on Approaches to Christmas

• What Will De About Christmas? (After the Grandparents Are Gone)
  By Suzanne Koven
• Planning "Far Enough"
  By Rosanne Levitt
• The Greatest Game: Playing Dreidel in Iowa
  By Susan Freudenheim
• "In the Mix": (Out of the) Home for Christmas
  By Julie Wiener

News

• Survey: Interfaith Families Raising Jewish Kids Can Negotiate Christmas
  By Sue Fishkoff

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Is Harry Potter Half-Jewish?
  By Nate Bloom
• For Your Consideration Deserves None: One Interfaith Couple's Response
  By Helene and John Dunbar
• The Jews Who Wrote Christmas Songs
  By Nate Bloom
• It's Chrismukkah Time... Again
  By Cheryl Coon