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Web Magazine Issue 165 - Interdating, Part 2

Web Magazine

Interdating, Part 2

Issue 165: August 16, 2005

FEATURED ARTICLES

A Jew-by-Choice's Perspective on Her Teenage Daughter's Interdating

By Paula Yablonsky

Through dating, she will learn whether or not a Jewish partner is important to her.

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I'm Jewish, but What Difference Does That Make about Whom I Date?

By Sandra Anderson

My father made interfaith dating a battleground, yet four of his five children are intermarried.

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

More Interdating Articles

Grown Up Love Is Complicated
By Amy Elkes

In other ways, being part of an interfaith relationship--our particular interfaith relationship--is also much easier than I anticipated.

A Choice
By Rabbi Julie Greenberg

But some situations involve either/or choices. You can't raise your children as Christians and not raise your children as Christians.

Star/Crossed: Jewish Stories from an Interfaith Life

The Only Starfish
By Andi Rosenthal

"Even if you convert, I still won't see you as Jewish.  I don't think I ever will."

News and Opinion

Study of Interfaith Kids Upends Ideas of Identity
By Jennifer Siegel

Young adult children of intermarried couples maintain strong cultural ties to the Jewish community, despite low levels of religious identification.

Welcoming the New Jews
A Forward Editorial

Can the Jewish community make room for the many types of Jews who want to join?

InterfaithFamily.com In the News

New Guidebook Serves as a Road Map to Innovation in the Jewish Community
By Rachel Pomerance 

Slingshot--a new guidebook to the 50 most innovative Jewish groups in North America--includes InterfaithFamily.com.

No "Easy" Answer
By E.B. Solomont

"I wish that more rabbis would officiate at intermarriages," Case said.

Arts and Entertainment

Interesting Times: Boy, What a Catch!
By Saul Singer

Is it anti-Semitic to write an ode to Jewish men, while advising non-Jewish women on how to attract them? A review of Boy Vey!: The Shiksa's Guide to Dating Jewish Men.

Talking Peace: A Moving and Provocative Documentary
By Cheryl F. Coon

The film challenges us to see that in any dispute there "is right on both sides, probably more than wrong on both sides."

Spiritual leader and teacher. Typically, but not always, leads a congregation.
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