From Before Birth... Growing the Jewish Identity

By Steven Michalove

Like my father, and his father before him, I started a new synagogue--but this one involved many interfaith couples, and is in Denmark!

When Judaism Isn't Kosher

By David Weintraub

There is a growing acknowledgment that a Jewish practice is just as valid if culturally-based as that which is temple-based.

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Jewish and A Little Bit Christmas
By Joanne Catz Hartman

By not choosing something we were treading water in a swirling current of religions, without a boat to claim our own.

When I am cooking for the New Year and using my grandmother's recipe for kreplach or on Passover when I use her recipe for matzah stuffing, I feel connected to our family tradition.

Fourth in a Series on Books for Christians about Judaism: Review of A Christian's Guide to Judaism
By Cheryl F. Coon

For these and other straightforward questions, Rabbi Lotker's A Christian's Guide to Judaism may be just the book you or a member of your extended interfaith family needs.

“He is going to be as effective, if not more, than John Paul II" in furthering Catholic-Jewish relations. “He's not going to backtrack. I think he's going to be advancing these causes even further."

Pittsburgh Rabbi Met with Future Pope; Jacob Calls Ratzinger Election "Welcomed News"
By Susan Jacobs

Several weeks ago, Rabbi Walter Jacob had a private meeting with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, never suspecting that he was seated in the presence of the next pope.

"Once he learned I had living relatives, he wouldn't condone" the conversion, Berger said.

Kosher Gospel Rocks the House at Seder Celebrating Jewish Diversity 
By Chanan Tigay

The Liberation Seder was imbued with the music and liturgies of several ethnicities.

Who's “Modern”? It's Academic: A Conference Offers a New Definition for a Movement of “Centrists”
By Larry Yudelson

Herzfeld approvingly cited a 19th-century rabbinic ruling concerning a case of intermarriage in America, where a man married to a non-Jewish woman had his son circumcised despite the objections of the local rabbi.