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Web Magazine Issue 171 - How Social Action Can Unite Interfaith Families, Part 2

Web Magazine

How Social Action Can Unite Interfaith Families, Part 2

Issue 171: November 15, 2005

FEATURED ARTICLES

 

Activism as an Aphrodisiac

By Sue Eisenfeld

Our daily negotiations about social issues--the products we buy, the companies we invest in--are all part of what keeps our fire lit.

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Working Together on a Social Justice Project Strengthened Our Marriage

By Edie Mueller

Through this joint effort our marriage was strengthened by seeing that we can work together on issues over which we disagree!

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Social Action--Passed From One Generation to Another

By Sandra Anderson

Tikkun olam, repairing the world, was a value my non-Jewish husband and I agreed on, and one we passed on to our children.

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

News and Opinion on Social Action

Tribal vs. Covenantal Jewish Identity
By Sidney Schwarz

The Jewish community would do well to soften its boundaries.

Justice Program Builds on Teshuvah to Help Young Offenders Change Ways
By Sue Fishkoff

The Progressive Jewish Alliance trains volunteers to mediate in cases forwarded by local law enforcement and juvenile courts.

Dialogue and Debate

We Must Integrate Interfaith Families into Community
By Rabbi Avis D. Miller

Segregation of intermarried families may function to reinforce and perpetuate that status, and undermine efforts at conversion.

Interfaith Families Need Exclusive Programs
By Marion L. Usher

The Jewish community should provide programming specifically for interfaith families and couples.

Other News

English, French and Hebrew Spoken in French Shul
By Lauren Elkin

Where in the world can you find a synagogue whose members are not necessarily Jewish; that holds services in English, French, and Hebrew…

Arts and Entertainment

In Prime Streep's Jewish Mother Frets over Her Son's Interfaith Dating
By Amy Klein

But at its core Prime is also a movie about the not very cinematic subject of religion--and the threat of intermarriage.

Uma, Non-Jewish Goddess in Prime
By Amy Klein

She's sort of agnostic, probably a WASP, non-religious, and he comes from a strong Jewish background and heritage…

Spiritual leader and teacher. Typically, but not always, leads a congregation. Place of Jewish worship, referring to both the room where it occurs and the building where it occurs. Colloquially referred to as "temple." "Repairing the world" in Hebrew. Tikkun olam is a goal of the Jewish covenant with God.
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