Jewish Dreams For Your Pre-Teen
As this New Year begins, we may have many hopes and dreams about what the months ahead will bring. Maybe you...
Author: Rabbi Ari Moffic
Rabbi Ari Moffic is the former director of the 18Doors Chicago Innovation Hub and is the founder of CoHere.
Hanukkah Can Be Hard!
Here are some of the challenges I hear from interfaith couples about Hanukkah:
Lighting the menorah is too...
Family, Hindu Jewish Wedding, Love, Parenting Stories, Relationships
Trees Are Sensitive
For years now, synagogues and Jewish community centers have been offering “December Dilemma” programs....
Understanding Our Commandments
We are half-way through one of our online classes, Preparing for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah in Your Interfaith Family....
Where Are Your Kinsmen?
I recently officiated a wedding in which there were only a few Jewish people there (and I was one of them)....
Breaking the Glass, Clergy Weddings, Counseling, Engagement, Resources, Seven Blessings, Weddings
Coming In The Front Door
I’ve heard rabbis say that the most important part of the synagogue is not the ark where the Torah scrolls...
Parenting, Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Stories, Young Kids
The Bridal Expo
As I have blogged about before, one of the biggest challenges to expanding the work we are doing here in Chicago...
What Can I Say?
I have lead three workshops recently for religious school teachers and the same frustration came up each time....
Can Raising Children in One Religion Be Clear Cut?
Each week I post a [url=https://18doors.org/elgg/pg/groups/forum/82847]discussion question on the Chicagoland...
The Importance of Jewish Education
I read a post on the Reform Judaism blog with great interest, as, based on the title alone, [url=http://blogs.rj.org/blog/2012/07/23/youth-engagement-is-not-a-curriculum-its-the-curriculum]Youth...
What Do Violin Lessons Have to Do With Religious School?
My 5-year-old daughter just started violin lessons. Her lessons use the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_method#Philosophy]Suzuki...
Clergy Panel On Interfaith Marriage
I had the privilege to sit on a panel Monday night, May 20th, joining other clergy in expressing our views on...
Shabbat Family Worship: Is it Possible?
We just finished an online class called [url=/blog/iff/general/a-sneak-peak-at-our-online-parenting-class/]Raising...
Teaching the Why?
I attended part of the International Institute for Secular Humanist Judaism’s Colloquium at Northwestern this...
Thoughts on Jewish Identity
The Winter 2012 edition of Contact, the journal of The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life, is devoted to...
Writing a Religious School Pledge for All Families
From the moment I left the Kallah that we co-lead with the Community Foundation for Jewish Education, I haven’t...
Be a Fly On the Wall: Hear What Jewish Leaders Talk About
InterfaithFamily/Chicago co-lead the Community Foundation for Jewish Education (CFJE) Principal’s Kallah on...
Interfaith Family Shabbat- Total Joy
Friday, January 13, we hosted a JCC Makor Shabbat for Interfaith Families with Young Children, a community dinner...
A Holiday Disclosure
[b][i]This is a guest post by Dr. Steve Moffic (my father-in-law, a Milwaukee psychiatrist). It was originally...
How Can a Religious School Teacher Respond?
I recently spent an hour with religious school teachers in a Reform synagogue, talking about the children from...
Marriage, Parenting, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Stories, Religion, Young Kids
Questions Coming up in Chicagoland
Passover Memories
God Is Great, I’m Not: A Review
You might expect a film with the title God is Great; I’m Not to be heavy and metaphysical. But in actuality,...
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