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Parenting in Interfaith Families Resources

Are you raising children with a partner of another faith? Are you trying to figure how much--if any--religion to share with your children? Learn about a wide variety of approaches to this great challenge from the articles, resources and links on the InterfaithFamily.com website.

Helpful Interfaith Parenting Documents

• Tips for Parents of Children Who Are Intermarrying

Day and Religious School Information:

• Directory of Jewish Day Schools Welcoming Children of Interfaith Families (pdf)
• Report: What We Learned from the Interfaith Families and Religious Schools Survey
• Press Release: Survey Finds That Religious Education is Important to Interfaith Families and That Growing Numbers Send Their Children to Jewish Day Schools

Recommended Articles on Parenting in Interfaith Families

• Considering Religion: How Will You Raise Kids? by Lisa A. Goldstein
• Teaching Jewish Values to Your Children by Rabbi Lev Baesh
• The Lifecycle of an Interfaith Relationship: Raising Teenagers by S. Courtney Nathan
• So You Want to Be a Jewish Mother, but You're Not Jewish? by Rabbi Barbara Penzner
• "But Josh Isn't Religious. Why Should We Raise Our Children as Jews?" by Roberta Calderone

For many more helpful interfaith parenting articles, click on these links to access our archives:

• Parents and Interfaith Weddings
• Adoption
• Growing Up in an Interfaith Family
• Divorce and Step-Family issues
• Raising Children in Interfaith Families
• Teaching about Other Religions
• Talking about God In Interfaith Families
• Extended Family Relationships
• Telling Parents about Religious Decisions for Your Children
• Multiracial and Multicultural Families

For previous Web Magazine issues on interfaith parenting, click on the links below:

• Issue 215 (August 2007) - Parenting
• Issue 209 (May 2007) - Babies
• Issue 199 (January 2007) - Preschools
• Issue 184 (May 2006) - Babies and Parenting
• Issue 141 (August 2004)
• Issue 140 (August 2004)
• Issue 57 (March 2001)
• Issue 31 (March 2000)
• Issue 29 (February 2000)
• Issue 1 (November 1998)

Interfaith Parenting Discussion Boards

• Parenting
• Growing Up in an Interfaith Family
• Extended Family Relationships

Additional Resources on Parenting in Interfaith Families

Websites

Visit our partner MyJewishLearning.com for more information on parenting:

• Overview: Parent/Child Relationships
• Parenting: A View from Jewish Sources
• Battling Stereotypes of the Jewish Mother
• Mixed Families, Jewish Choices

Lifelong Jewish Learning for Parents -- This resource from the Union for Reform Judaism includes information on bedtime rituals, holidays for children and other resources.

Modern Jewish Mom -- A website that demonstrates how Jewish traditions can be wonderful parenting tools.

PJ Library -- Sends Jewish-content books and music on a monthly basis to families with children through age 7.

Books

• Friedland, Ronnie and Case, Edmund, ed. The Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life: An InterfaithFamily.com Handbook. Jewish Lights, 2001. Read a review.
• Abramowitz, Yosef I., and Silverman, Rabbi Susan. Jewish Family & Life: Traditions, Holidays, and Values for Today's Parents and Children Golden, 1998.
• Diamant, Anita, with Cooper, Howard. Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today's Families. HarperCollins, 1996.
• Diamant, Anita and Kushner, Karen. How to Be a Jewish Parent: A Practical Handbook for Family Life. Schocken, 2000. A comprehensive guide that covers all aspects of raising children Jewishly.
• Keen, Jim. Inside Intermarriage. URJ Press, 2006. Read our review. (A 15% discount is available to InterfaithFamily.com subscribers if you purchase the book through the URJ Press website. If you sign up today, you will receive the discount code in your confirmation email.)
• King, Andrea. If I'm Jewish and You're Christian, What Are the Kids?: A Parenting Guide for Interfaith Families: A Parenting Guide for Interfaith Families. UAHC, 1993. Read our review.
• Mogel, Wendy. The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children. Penguin Group, 2001. Read our review.

If you know of other interfaith parenting resources--or if you'd like to see additional resources on a particular aspect of interfaith parenting--please email us at network@interfaithfamily.com and let us know what you'd like us to provide.

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