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Web Magazine Issue 209 - Babies

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Web Magazine

Babies

Issue 209: May 22, 2007

FEATURED ARTICLES

Going Nuclear

By Michael Brent

Twins turn a couple of DINKS (double income, no kids) into a Jewishly involved interfaith family.

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Challah and Rice Cakes

By Tracy Hahn-Burkett

An intermarried couple held a Jewish baby-naming for their adopted Korean daughter on Friday, and a Korean first-birthday party on Saturday.

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Does Circumcision Reduce the Risk of Contracting HIV?

By Rabbi Donni C. Aaron

The head of the Reform movement's mohel program investigates.

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

More Articles on Babies

Baby Talk
By Sarah Sookman

While contemplating her future with children, a woman with a Jewish father and Protestant mother wonders: should she convert?

A Secular Welcoming
By Rabbi Miriam S. Jerris

In Humanistic birth ceremonies, the family's values, philosophy and feelings are paramount.

Books

Hipster Dad in Yuppieland
By Alizah Salario

Are youth and fatherhood two mutually exclusive terms?

From Le Thi Hong to Rivka Shoshanah
By Cheryl Coon

A new children's book on a family's adoption of a Vietnamese baby is wise beyond its years.

News

Will Sarkozy's Jewish Roots Impact France's Policies?
By Raanan Eliaz

The mother of France's new president comes from one of Greece's oldest Jewish families.

Survey Shows High Level of Satisfaction with InterfaithFamily.com
By Micah Sachs

What do you think of us?

Country Cheder Aims to Turn Sunday School Into Family Time
By Aaron Leibel

Alef-bet isn't just for the kids anymore.

Shavuot

Shavuot Lesson: Jews Must Champion Cause of Strangers in a Strange Land
By Rabbi Jill Jacobs

Have Jews lost sight of their history as immigrants?

Arts and Entertainment

Interfaith Celebrities: Paul Wolfowitz's Arab Girlfriend and The Naked Brothers Band
By Nate Bloom

More on the interfaith relationship that's bringing down the head of the World Bank, plus a rumored romance between George Soros and Queen Noor, the Naked Brothers Band and Newhart's first wife.

The Hebrew alphabet, of which alef and bet are the first two letters. Braided bread, over which the Motzi (blessing recited before meals) is said, usually on Shabbat and holidays. The person trained to perform ritual circumcision. Spiritual leader and teacher. Typically, but not always, leads a congregation. A holiday commemorating the receiving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, it is also known as the Feast of Weeks, as it comes seven weeks after Passover begins.
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