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ENGAGING IN JEWISH LIFE, Part 2

By Rachel Pomerance

“We do do Shabbat on Fridays,” Eileen Rockefeller Growald says...[and] shehechianus after the first tomatoes of the season,”

By Cara Nissman

Sharing my heritage with friends and family at home is much more fulfilling than sitting in a large hall with a few friends and more strangers.

Could It Happen Here? A Review of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America By Cheryl F. Coon
What might have happened to American Jews in the twentieth century if certain things had gone differently?

	Non-Jewish Mothers of Jewish Children Face Some Hard Choices By Sue Fishkoff
Case's theory is that a more welcoming Jewish community will lead to less isolation of the non-Jewish spouse, and ultimately to more Jewish choices.
Innovative Program Offers Support to Non-Jewish Moms with Jewish Kids By Sue Fishkoff
Building Blocks is an eight-month educational course for non-Jewish mothers that focuses on the practicalities of creating a Jewish home.
	Courage and Innovation: And at 80, Rabbi Harold Schulweis Plans to Keep Going By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
He broke ground with his interfaith dialogues and by achieving ritual equality for women.
High Court in Israel Accepts Some Non-Orthodox Conversions By Dan Baron
The High Court ordered the state to recognize "leaping converts"--who study in Israel but then convert with Reform or Conservative rabbis abroad--as eligible to immigrate under the Law of Return.

Finding Faith in Intermarriage By Beth Lugo
As I hurry home from work to get ready for Friday evening services, or wake up early on a Saturday morning to take my daughter to Tot Shabbat, I often wonder if I would be this dedicated to Judaism if I had married another Jew.