Remembering Arthur Obermayer
InterfaithFamily lost a very dear friend, and the broader Jewish world an outstanding leader, when Arthur Obermayer...
Author: Edmund Case
Edmund Case is the founder of 18Doors and served as CEO from inception until he stepped down in March, 2015. He is the author of Radical Inclusion: Engaging Interfaith Families for a Thriving Jewish Future, co-editor of The Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life: An InterfaithFamily.com Handbook, and founder of the Center for Radically Inclusive Judaism.
Positive News from the Millennial Children of Intermarriage Study
Theodore Sasson and his colleagues at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis released this week...
Why We Should Accept Rabbis Who Intermarry
In a Forward editorial today, Jane Eisner says we should expect a rabbi to raise his or her children in a Jewish...
Vitality or Decline?
Today’s Statement on Jewish Vitality, advocating strategic responses to respond to the challenges of the Jewish...
Bravo Reconstructionists!
The Reconstructionist movement has once again led the way to a more inclusive Judaism by taking the bold step...
Choosing Love and Family at a B’nei Mitzvah
I’ve been to a lot of bar and bat mitzvahs in my life, but I’ve never been so deeply moved as I was on a recent...
Mazel Tov, Michael Douglas – and Our Cause
Today was a very big day for everyone who wants to see interfaith families engage in Jewish life and community.
As...
What the Term “Interfaith Family” Means
Today on eJewishPhilanthropy, Allison McMillan wrote an important piece, “Intermarried, Not Interfaith.”...
Three Voices from the Conservative Movement
In March Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky, a Conservative rabbi at Ansche Chesed in Manhattan, explaining “Why...
You’re One of Us
Steven M. Cohen and Rabbi Joy Levitt have written an extremely important op-ed for JTA: “If You Marry...
The Ever-Renewing People
[The below article was posted in November 2014]
Chip Edelsberg, executive director of the Jim Joseph Foundation,...
Birthright Israel and Interfaith Marriage
[This piece, by Edmund Case and Jodi Bromberg, was published in eJewishPhilathropy on September 11, 2014.]
Taglit-Birthright...
Remembering My Mother
My mother, Beatrice Case, died one week ago, on March 16, 2014. She was 95 and had been remarkably healthy until...
Kudos and For Shame
As we mentioned last week, the “let’s promote in-marriage” debate has reignited, and we weighed in with Promote...
It Happens In the Best of Families
There’s an uproar in Israel because a son of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is dating a Norwegian woman who...
Thank You and Good Luck to Jennifer Gorovitz
Jennifer Gorovitz
We were sorry to learn that Jennifer Gorovitz will be stepping down as CEO of the San Francisco-based...
He Will Be Missed: Remembering Edgar M. Bronfman, Sr.
All of us at InterfaithFamily are mourning the loss of Edgar Bronfman, who died last night.
Edgar had a powerful...
Opening the Gates
Leading up to and during my vacation there have been three big intermarriage stories in the media. They all...
More on Ordaining Intermarried Rabbis
Kudos to Paul Golin, associate executive director of the Jewish Outreach Institute, for a powerful contribution...
Til Faith Do Us Part
Right around Passover, there was some prominent coverage in the secular press about intermarriage due to the...
Intermarried Rabbis and Intermarriage Attitudes
We’re back from Passover and there was a flurry of commentary about intermarriage in the Jewish media....
Leaders By Choice
There is a fascinating new issue of Sh’ma just out on the topic “leaders by choice.” InterfaithFamily’s...
Rabbis and Intermarriage
I recently read an article, Debatable: Should Our Seminary Admit Students with Non-Jewish Partners?, in the...
Rabbi Reverses Interfaith Marriage Policy
The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles has a powerful article today, Rabbi reverses interfaith marriage policy. The...
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