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Interfaith Travel

By Amy Elkes

Japan: The land where nobody cares that you're in an interfaith relationship.

By Steven Michalove

Europe: Where a non-Jewish spouse wants to visit historical Jewish sites, but her husband finds it too painful.

By Faye Rapoport

Israel: A second homeland is hard to visit when your fiancé is afraid of flying.

Memoirs of a Pizza Bagel By Joelle Asaro Berman
A Jewish-Italian-American sets out to determine which feels more like home: Sicily or Israel. Game on.
Everything Old is New Again By Zack Kushner
Jerusalem just isn't the same for a young Jew visiting with his secular non-Jewish wife.
Krakow's Resurgent Jewish Culture Enjoyed by Jews and Non-Jews Alike By Carolyn Slutsky
No Jews? No problem. In Krakow, Poles are lining up for Yiddish theater and klezmer concerts.

	Isn't Half-Jewish Better Than Not Jewish at All? By Lila Hanft
Laurel Snyder has compiled an anthology of stories from interfaith children with the message, "We're here, we're half, get used to it!"
	Half Holy, Wholly Half By Anthony Hecht
In an essay from Half/Life, the son of a Catholic mother and Jewish father explains his curious relationship to religion.
	Pride, Prejudice and Much More: Reflections on Growing up in Interfaith Families By Marlena Thompson
Half/Life is an important and profound new book by the children of interfaith families.

Israel's Top Rabbinate Rejects Orthodox Conversions as Well By Chanan Tigay
Orthodox Jews converted in foreign lands find it increasingly difficult to be recognized as Jewish in Israel.