Issue 199: Preschools

January 4, 2007

Featured Articles

• Toddlers as Teachers?
  By Martha Kimes
• The Big Decision
  By Abby Spotts
• Get 'Em While They're Young: Preschools Get First Crack at Families
  By Sue Fishkoff

More Articles on Interfaith Families and Preschool

• Our Braided Heritage
  By Debbie Popiel White
• Growing Number of Non-Jews Teach the Aleph-Bet at Preschool
  By Sue Fishkoff

From Our Article Archive

• When Children Raise Jewish Parents
  By Christina Pertus Hendelman
• Kapler Looking to Rejuvenate Career
  By Jeff Goodman

News

• Get 'Em While They're Even Younger: Groups Reach Out to Babies, Too
  By Jacob Berkman
• Conservative Day Schools to Admit Patrilineals?
  By Sue Fishkoff

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: For Peet's Sake
  By Nate Bloom
• All-Ages Music: Entertainer Dan Zanes Performs for Adults and Children Alike
  By Suzanne Chessler
• Picture This: A Children's Book with a Message of Interfaith Healing
  By Cheryl Coon

Issue 200: Our 200th Issue and Fifth Anniversary

January 16, 2007

Featured Articles

• The History--and Future--of InterfaithFamily.com
  By Micah Sachs
• "They Are Us": Interview with Anita Diamant
  By Ronnie Friedland
• The Best of InterfaithFamily.com: Our Picks
  By the staff of InterfaithFamily.com

The Best of InterfaithFamily.com: Your Picks

• Intermarriage is Good for the Jews
  By Susan Ardell
• Activism is an Aphrodisiac
  By Joelle Asaro Berman
• Final Steps into Synagogue Life
  By Cheryl Coon
• Cheese Blintzes: An Adoptee Discovers Her Jewish Roots
  By Ellen Glazer
• A Kiwi on the Seder Plate
  By Jim Keen
• IFF Network Blog
  By Julie Wiener
• The Road Taken and Confessions of a Non-Jewish Insider
  By Lynne Wolfe

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: The Jewish Mermaid
  By Nate Bloom

Issue 201: Latino-Jewish Relationships and Hispanic Jews

January 30, 2007

Featured Articles

• The Lonely Journey of a Puerto Rican Jew
  By Franklin Velazquez
• Salt Cod on Shabbat
  By Rachel Rockenmacher
• When the Families Meet
  By Monica Sandoval-Sapherstein

Additional Articles on Latino-Jewish Relationships and Hispanic Jews

• Interfaith Questions Faced by a Jewish-Puerto Rican Couple
  By Sheryl Santiago
• What We Can Learn from Cuban Jews
  By Ruth Nemzoff
• Grupo Hispano Celebrates a Buen 5767
  By Roberto Loiederman
• Klezmer with a Side of Salsa
  By Larry Luxner

News

• The ABCs of Interfaith: Parents in Mixed Marriages Sending Kids to Bay Area Jewish Day Schools
  By Dan Pine

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Why Pink is a Mixed Bag
  By Nate Bloom
• Degrassi Actor Says Being Different Made Him Stronger
  By Harrison Jordan

Books

• How Hungry Are You?
  By Ron Lux

Recipes

• Cooking: Malanga and Mangoes with a Cuban Minyan
  By Tina Wasserman

Issue 202: Interdating

February 13, 2007

Featured Articles

• The Piece That Remains
  By Lia M. Del Sesto
• The Family Business
  By Zack Kushner
• The Beastie Boys, Jesus and Me
  By Ezra Werb

Resource on Interdating

• Tips for Talking to Your Children About Interdating
  By the Staff of InterfaithFamily.com

Additional Articles on Interdating

• The Elephant in Our Relationship
  By Rhonda Moskowitz
• Going to Temple: A BYOJB Affair
  By Andrea Lavinthal
• One Jew or Two? The "Continuity Crisis" Hits Home
  By Melanie Weiss
• More Than a Succubus: Confessions of a Shiksa
  By Whitney Campbell
• My Date with Chris
  By Orit

News

• Latest Salvo in Intermarriage Debate Suggests a Split in Jewish Community
  By Sue Fishkoff

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Of Hip Hop, Heroes and the Oscars
  By Nate Bloom
• Not Crazy About Goy Crazy
  By Lynn Melnick
• Interfaith Romance Warms Up Flannel Pajamas
  By Michael Fox

Issue 203: Differences in Interfaith Issues Through the Life Cycle

February 27, 2007

Featured Articles

• May You Live Until 120!
  By Rosalyn Shafter
• Behind the Wheel
  By Paula Yablonsky
• Marriage within Marriage
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer

More Articles on Differences in Interfaith Issues Through the Life Cycle

• From "Half-Jewish" to Rabbi
  By Julie Wiener
• Illness in an Interfaith Family
  Audio interview with Courtney Nathan
• Advice for Intermarried Couples Facing Life Cycle Events
  By Jeanette Bergelson
• Rhythm of Life
  By Sandy Anderson

Purim

• Purim: When You Can Throw a Sponge at the Rabbi's Face
  By Jim Keen

Opinion

• Stop Looking at Intermarriage Through Rose-Colored Glasses
  By Steven M. Cohen
• Don't Write Off the Intermarried: A Case for Community Outreach
  By Edmund Case and Micah Sachs

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Britney and Christina
  By Nate Bloom
• Jefferson Airplane Guitarist Searches for His Jewish Soul
  By Jacob Berkman

Books

• When Mom Marries, Fortunes Change for a Single Woman
  By Rachel Sarah
• A Bad Decision
  By Lynn Melnick

Issue 204: The Threat of Messianic Judaism

March 13, 2007

Featured Articles

• What's the Big Deal?
  By Rabbi Carl Perkins
• Avoiding Spiritual Deception
  By Rabbi Michael Skobac
• On Revelations and Close Encounters of the Messianic Kind
  By Janet Silver Ghent

More Articles on the Threat of Messianic Judaism

• Star-Crossed Missionaries: Valley Sees "Wave" of Messianic Proelytizing
  By Debra Morton Gelbart
• Jews, Christians and an Ex-Messianic Attend a Lecture by Anti-Missionary Expert, Rabbi Kravitz, at CSU
  By Susan Schaibly
• Missionaries Set Messianic Sights on Russian Jews in Germany
  By Toby Axelrod
• As Jews for Jesus Hits New York, Jews for Judaism Is Out in Force
  By Rachel Silverman

Opinion

• Intermarriage Studies May Be Right; Community's Fearful Response Isn't
  By Gary A. Tobin

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: On Jake Gyllenhaal's Jewish-ishness and Robert Downey Jr. the Jubu
  By Nate Bloom
• The Falafel Truth
  By Tom Tugend

Books

• Book Reveals Secrets from the Patriarchs of Punk: CBGBs Was Really Heebie Jeebies
  By Marc Ballon
• An Academic Dialogue Seeks to Break Down Religious Walls
  By Helene Dunbar

Issue 205: Passover/Easter

March 22, 2007

Featured Articles

• Our First Seder
  By Faye Rapaport DesPres
• Is There Room for God in Our Relationship?
  By Rebecca Gopoian
• What We Learned from the 2007 Passover/Easter Survey (also in PDF)
  By Micah Sachs

More Articles on Passover and Easter

• A Sticky Situation
  By Kia Silverman
• Making Passover Work in an Interfaith Home
  By Abby Spotts
• The Reluctant Son-in-Law
  Interview by Ronnie Friedland
• Passover in Interfaith Families: Three Essays from InterfaithFamily.com, with Discussion Guide, Tips, Recommended Resources and Activities for Children (also in PDF)
  By InterfaithFamily.com

Recipes

• Gremchelich and Easter Eggs: Recipes for a Dutch Seder
  By Judith van Praag

From Our Article Archive

• Sharing the Passover Seder with Guests of Other Faiths, Plus Recipes
  By Jayne Cohen

Special Report

• The Truth About Matrilineal Descent
  By J.R. Wilhelm

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Play Ball!
  By Nate Bloom

Books

• The Four Questions Meet the Four Noble Truths
  By Louise Crawford
• Jewish Holidays 101: A Book About Jewish Holidays for Non-Jews
  By Tracy Hahn-Burkett

Issue 206: Death and Mourning

April 10, 2007

Featured Articles

• Death in the Interfaith Family
  By Lisa Friedman
• From Joy to Grief
  By Pam Chernoff
• Who Is the Funeral for: The Dead or the Living?
  By Johanna Karasik

More Articles on Death and Mourning

• Saying Kaddish at My Mother's Christian Memorial Service
  By Kathy Miller
• Making Peace with the Dead
  By Milly Dawson
• The Family Plot
  By Terry McGrath
• A White Shroud
  Interview by Ronnie Friedland

News

• After Death Do Us Part?
  By Sue Fishkoff
• A Tale of Two Cities' Cemeteries: Embracing Change vs. Keeping the Law
  By Sue Fishkoff
• Billboard Mystery Ends with Interfaith Twist
  By Adam Wills
• Grave Challenges: Jewish Synagogue Policies Vary on Burying Interfaith Couples
  By Arlene Fine

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Shia the Mensch
  By Nate Bloom

Books

• A Book on Kabbalah for "Dummies" Like Me
  By Rebecca Gopoian

Issue 207: Communication in Interfaith Relationships

April 24, 2007

Featured Articles

• Perfecting the Art of Arguing: Jewish Women and Their Non-Jewish Mates
  By Sue Eisenfeld
• Communicating Across the Cultural Divide(s)
  By Alex Goldfein
• Does OK Really Mean OK?
  By Julia Gutman

More Articles on Communication in Interfaith Relationships

• A Look Inside the Communication Gap
  By Jane Blumenthal Martin
• Who Needs Conflict?
  By Jason Feifer
• When Love is a Casualty of War
  By Joshua Gross
• Love at First Sight
  Interview by Ronnie Friedland

News

• Temple Professor Works to Create Center on Afro-Jewish History
  By Rachel Silverman

Opinion

• "In the Mix": The Intermarried Inbox
  By Julie Wiener

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: The Long Line of Interfaith Indianas
  By Nate Bloom
• A Bridge Too Far? The Namesake and the Intermarriage Question
  By Suzanne Koven
• The Jew Who Loved a Nazi
  By Alizah Salario

Books

• A Weak Attempt at Biblical Feminism
  By Jasmin Singer

Issue 208: Secular Judaism

May 8, 2007

Featured Articles

• Can You Raise a Child Without God?
  By Ken Burk
• Of Shalom and Om
  By Heather Lazar
• Interfaith Families and Secular Judaism
  By Cantor and Rabbi Judith Seid

More Articles on Secular Judaism

• Our Secular Humanistic Seder
  By Deborah Freeman
• "Mazel Tov" Instead of "Oy Vey"
  Interview by Ronnie Friedland

Books

• Judaism, Please. Hold the Deity.
  By Jesse Tisch
• Avoiding Jewish "Nothingness"
  By Michael Felsen

News

• Is the Popularity of Jewish Culture Sustainable?
  By Chanan Tigay
• Rabbi Field Embraces "Jews on the Edge"
  By Andrea Jacobs

From Our Article Archives

• Why We Call Them Intercultural Weddings: A Secular Humanistic Jewish Approach
  By Rabbi Miriam Jerris

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Five Beautiful Women, A Violinist and One Caveman
  By Nate Bloom

Issue 209: Babies

May 22, 2007

Featured Articles

• Going Nuclear
  By Michael Brent
• Challah and Rice Cakes
  By Tracy Hahn-Burkett
• Does Circumcision Reduce the Risk of Contracting HIV?
  By Rabbi Donni C. Aaron

More Articles on Babies

• Baby Talk
  By Sarah Sookman
• A Secular Welcoming
  By Rabbi Miriam S. Jerris

Books

• Hipster Dad in Yuppieland
  By Alizah Salario
• From Le Thi Hong to Rivka Shoshanah
  By Cheryl F. Coon

News

• Will Sarkozy's Jewish Roots Impact France's Policies?
  By Raanan Eliaz
• Survey Shows High Level of Satisfaction with InterfaithFamily.com
  By Micah Sachs
• Country Cheder Aims to Turn Sunday School into Family Time
  By Aaron Leibel

Shavuot

• Shavuot Lesson: Jews Must Champion Cause of Strangers in a Strange Land
  By Rabbi Jill Jacobs

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Paul Wolfowitz's Arab Girlfriend and The Naked Brothers Band
  By Nate Bloom

Issue 210: Coming Out About Your Interfaith Relationship

June 5, 2007

Featured Articles

• Tips for Telling Your Parents About Your Interfaith Relationship
  By Carol Targum
• "You Have Shamed Us"
  By Marina Budhos
• Coming Out to My Co-Workers
  By Rachel Rockenmacher

More Articles on Coming Out About Your Interfaith Relationship

• The Blessing of Two Mothers
  By Peggy Dorf
• "In the Mix": Coming Out as Intermarried
  By Julie Wiener
• The Accidental Intermarriage
  By Abby Spotts

From Our Article Archives

• Overcoming Our Religious Differences
  By Madhavi Kushner

Opinion

• Can Intermarriage Be a Form of Outreach?
  By Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky

Arts and Entertainment

• Baby on Board: A Review of Knocked Up
  By Alizah Salario
• Interfaith Celebrities: Amy Winehouse's Non-Jewish Husband and Nicolas Sarkozy's Half-Jewish Wife
  By Nate Bloom
• Drawn Together: R. Crumb's Beloved Aline Kaminsky
  By Ilana Arazie

Issue 211: Weddings

June 19, 2007

Featured Articles

• Fit to Print?
  By Micah Sachs, with reporting by Millie Dawson
• The "PG"--Preacher's Girlfriend
  By Magin McKenna
• The Blogging Bride
  By Julie Daneman

Updated Resource on Interfaith Weddings

• Guide to Weddings for Interfaith Couples (PDF) (Also available as Word document.)

More Articles on Weddings

• My Jewpanese Wedding
  By Paul Golin
• When Life Gets in the Way of Planning a Wedding
  By Faye Rapoport DesPres
• Picture This: Old Photographs, New Life
  By Heather Lazar
• Our Non-Religious Jewish Wedding
  By Naomi Rockler-Gladen

News

• InterfaithFamily.com Hires Rabbi
  By JTA Staff
• To Officiate or Not?
  By Nancy Fromson

Arts and Entertainment

• Pearls' Ordeal Makes for a White-Knuckle Docudrama
  By Michael Fox
• Truth of Pearl
  By Michael Fox
• Interfaith Celebrities: Brittany Murphy's "Rabbi" Husband and "American Idol's" Jewish Judges
  By Nate Bloom
• Doctor, Doctor, There's a Joke in My Judaism!: A Conversation with Adam Gopnik
  By Susan Freudenheim

Issue 212: Growing Up in an Interfaith Family

July 10, 2007

Featured Articles

• What Leads Children of Intermarriage to Identify as Jews?
  By Ron Lux
• Better Left Undefined
  By Jasmin Singer
• What Am I If Not Jewish?
  By Judith van Praag

More Articles on Growing Up in an Interfaith Family

• Chicken Soup Theology
  By Felice Indindoli Bochman
• Born Without a Name
  By Tiffany Collins
• Chillin' with My Faux Jew 'Fro
  By Keenan Steiner
• A Half-Chinese, Half-Jewish Kid Conquers the Free Birthright Trip
  By Jon Block

News

• "In the Mix": From "Half-Jewish" to Rabbi
  By Julie Wiener
• Faces of Change
  By CampusJ.com

Arts and Entertainment

• She's the Man: A Q&A with Amanda Bynes
  By Nate Bloom
• Interfaith Celebrities: Kyra Sedgwick, Baseball's Braun-y Interfaith Rookie and a Jewish Maori Director
  By Nate Bloom
• Emerging Canadian Star is a Happy "Half-Breed"
  By Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf
• Won't You Be My Neighbor?
  By Suzanne Koven

Issue 213: Divorce

July 31, 2007

Featured Articles

• Advice to Separated Interfaith Couples
  By Rabbi Arthur Nemitoff
• The Ex Factor
  By Laurie Nodie
• The Child's Dilemma
  By Dawn Kepler

• Why Aren't We More Like Tevye?
  By Felice Indinoli Bochman

More Articles on Divorce

• Interfaith Utopia
  By Alizah Salario
• Pray It Again, Kid: Blessings from a Precocious Child
  By Janet Silver Ghent
• After Divorce: Will the Children Still Be Raised Jewish?
  By Ellen Schur Brown
• Jewish Life After the Split
  Interview by Ronnie Friedland

News

• Should Rabbis Say "I Do" to Interfaith Weddings?
  By Julie Wiener
• Humanistic Disciples Mourn Their Founder Killed in a Car Accident
  By Ben Harris

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Becks and "Sex"
  By Nate Bloom
• Just an Ordinary Jew?
  By Suzanne Koven

Books

• Making a Godly Mess
  By Ron Lux
• Anti-Semitism Undertow
  By Tracy Hahn-Burkett
• 147 Ways to Be Jewish
  By Jesse Tisch

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Issue 214: Conversion

August 14, 2007

Featured Articles

• Those Hard-to-Grasp Nuances of Judaism
  By Gina Hagler
• Do I Look Jewish?
  By Danielle Freni
• Why I Am Not Converting
  By Kim Tornberg

More Articles on Conversion

• The Late Bloomer
  By Elaine K. Markowitz
• A Spark from Sinai
  By Amy Klein
• Gay-by-Birth, Jews-by-Choice
  By Nick Street

News

• Lustiger Was a Bridge and a Puzzle to Interfaith World
  By Ben Harris
• Unique Obstacles for Patrilineal Converts
  By Sue Fishkoff

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Chelsea's Jewish Boyfriend, Winona and the Two Coreys
  By Nate Bloom
• Battle of the Dolls
  By Lisa Keys
• Singing the Jewish Gospel: A Profile of Mare Winningham
  By Curt Schleirer

Movies

• Three Stars for The Ten
  By Bill Wine
• Goya's Ghosts: The Politics of Portraiture
  By Andi Rosenthal
• Can This Romance Last? New York's Upper West Side Meets Paris' West Bank
  By Jesse Tisch

Issue 215: Parenting

August 28, 2007

Featured Articles

• Learning from Our 5-Year-Old
  By Tanya Keith
• Don't Do "Nothing": Advice for Intermarried Parents
  By Dawn C. Kepler
• My Daughter is Going to Jewish Camp: Am I Ready?
  By Jim Keen

More Articles About Parenting

• "In the Mix":"You're a Jew, Dad, Right?"
  By Julie Wiener

News

• Is Officiation a Litmus Test for Hiring?
  By Steve Lipman
• We're Here, We're Half-Jewish, Get Used to It!
  By Sue Fishkoff
• Religious Rights on Trial as Circumcison Case Reaches Oregon's High Court
  By Jennifer Siegel

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Scarlett, Gwyneth and Goat Cheese
  By Nate Bloom

Books

• Funny, You Don't Look Tlingit
  By Suzanne Koven
• An Indispensable Guide to Living a Jewish Life
  By Lynn Melnick
• The Million-Dollar Question: What Makes Someone a Jew?
  By Rabbi Adam Chalom

Issue 216: High Holidays

September 6, 2007

Featured Articles

• Skipping Services
  By Zack Kushner
• The September Dilemma
  By Jane Ulman
• Taking Candy from a Bubbe
  By Samantha Facciolo

More Articles on The High Holidays

• The Worst Time of the Year to Be Introduced to the Jewish Religion
  By Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
• The High Holidays Without the One on High
  by Michael Felsen
• To Affiliate or Not?
  By Tom Friedland

Recipes

• High Holiday Desserts for Vegans, the Lactose-Intolerant, Kosher-Keepers and Other Weirdos
  By Linda Morel

News and Opinion

• Pay to Pray? Synagogues Are Rethinking the Old High Holidays Formula
  By Sue Fishkoff
• "In the Mix": Holy Moses! When Biblical Heroes Intermarry
  By Julie Wiener

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: CNN's Intermarried Beauties and E!'s Interfaith Ingenue
  By Nate Bloom

Books

• Can the Reform Movement Build a Better Prayer Book?
  By Rabbi Adam M. Morris
• High Holiday's Children's Books for Interfaith Families
  By Abby Spotts
• A Good Sense of Taste
  By Tracy Hahn-Burkett

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Issue 217: Grandparenting

September 25, 2007

Featured Articles

• When Faiths Diverge, Seek the Ties That Bind
  By Janet Silver Ghent
• Sharing Secrets With My Grandson
  By Milton Davis
• Tradition! Tradition?
  By Joan Millman

More Articles on Grandparenting

• The Grandparent Clause
  By Julie Wiener
• Making Your Home a Place Where Your Children's Children Want to Go
  By Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky and Paul Golin

History

• Forbidden Love: Anti-Semites who Loved Jews...And the Jews who (Sometimes) Loved Them Back
  By Mandy Katz

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: The Jewing of Ryan Braun and Amanda Bynes' Yom Kippur Premiere
  By Nate Bloom

Books

• Kalooki Nights' Unhealthy Obsession
  By Helene Dunbar
• Memories of the Wall
  By Alizah Salario

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Issue 218: Relationships with the Extended Family

October 9, 2007

Featured Articles

• The Invisible Woman
  By Laurie Biundo
• Can Stereotypes Be Helpful?
  By Edie Mueller
• When Being Yourself Is Not All in the Family
  By Dan Pine

More Articles About Relationships with Extended Family

• Kaddish at St. Joseph's
  By Julie Wiener

Humor

• When Jewish David Met Irish Eileen: Intermarriage, '70's-Style
  By Eli Valley

Arts and Entertainment

• Interfaith Celebrities: Interfaith NFL-ers and Cole Hauser's Impressive Pedigree 
  By Nate Bloom
• Eytan Fox Pops Tel Aviv's Bubble
  By Michael Fox
• Love in the Time of Depression
  By Jesse Tisch