Remembering Arthur Obermayer By Edmund Case InterfaithFamily lost a very dear friend, and the broader Jewish world an outstanding leader, when Arthur Obermayer... Advocacy, Board, News
Positive News from the Millennial Children of Intermarriage Study By Edmund Case Theodore Sasson and his colleagues at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis released this week... Advocacy, News
Why We Should Accept Rabbis Who Intermarry By Edmund Case In a Forward editorial today, Jane Eisner says we should expect a rabbi to raise his or her children in a Jewish... Advocacy
Vitality or Decline? By Edmund Case Today’s Statement on Jewish Vitality, advocating strategic responses to respond to the challenges of the Jewish... Advocacy, News
Bravo Reconstructionists! By Edmund Case The Reconstructionist movement has once again led the way to a more inclusive Judaism by taking the bold step... Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Choosing Love and Family at a B’nei Mitzvah By Edmund Case 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... Identity, Parenting, Parenting Stories
Mazel Tov, Michael Douglas – and Our Cause By Edmund Case Today was a very big day for everyone who wants to see interfaith families engage in Jewish life and community. As... Advocacy, News, Pop Culture
What the Term “Interfaith Family” Means By Edmund Case Today on eJewishPhilanthropy, Allison McMillan wrote an important piece, “Intermarried, Not Interfaith.”... Advocacy
Three Voices from the Conservative Movement By Edmund Case In March Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky, a Conservative rabbi at Ansche Chesed in Manhattan, explaining “Why... Advocacy, News
You’re One of Us By Edmund Case Steven M. Cohen and Rabbi Joy Levitt have written an extremely important op-ed for JTA: “If You Marry... Advocacy, News
The Ever-Renewing People By Edmund Case [The below article was posted in November 2014] Chip Edelsberg, executive director of the Jim Joseph Foundation,... Advocacy, News
Birthright Israel and Interfaith Marriage By Edmund Case [This piece, by Edmund Case and Jodi Bromberg, was published in eJewishPhilathropy on September 11, 2014.] Taglit-Birthright... Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Parenting Stories, Teenagers
Remembering My Mother By Edmund Case My mother, Beatrice Case, died one week ago, on March 16, 2014. She was 95 and had been remarkably healthy until... Death, Death & Mourning, Mourning
Kudos and For Shame By Edmund Case As we mentioned last week, the “let’s promote in-marriage” debate has reignited, and we weighed in with Promote... Advocacy, News
It Happens In the Best of Families By Edmund Case There’s an uproar in Israel because a son of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is dating a Norwegian woman who... Advocacy, Israel
Thank You and Good Luck to Jennifer Gorovitz By Edmund Case Jennifer Gorovitz We were sorry to learn that Jennifer Gorovitz will be stepping down as CEO of the San Francisco-based... Advocacy, News
He Will Be Missed: Remembering Edgar M. Bronfman, Sr. By Edmund Case All of us at InterfaithFamily are mourning the loss of Edgar Bronfman, who died last night. Edgar had a powerful...
Opening the Gates By Edmund Case Leading up to and during my vacation there have been three big intermarriage stories in the media. They all... Advocacy, Clergy, Clergy Weddings, News
More on Ordaining Intermarried Rabbis By Edmund Case Kudos to Paul Golin, associate executive director of the Jewish Outreach Institute, for a powerful contribution... Advocacy, Clergy, News
Til Faith Do Us Part By Edmund Case Right around Passover, there was some prominent coverage in the secular press about intermarriage due to the... Books, Op-ed, Relationships
Intermarried Rabbis and Intermarriage Attitudes By Edmund Case We’re back from Passover and there was a flurry of commentary about intermarriage in the Jewish media.... Advocacy, Impact, News
Leaders By Choice By Edmund Case There is a fascinating new issue of Sh’ma just out on the topic “leaders by choice.” InterfaithFamily’s... Advocacy
Rabbis and Intermarriage By Edmund Case I recently read an article, Debatable: Should Our Seminary Admit Students with Non-Jewish Partners?, in the... Clergy, Policy, Resources
Rabbi Reverses Interfaith Marriage Policy By Edmund Case The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles has a powerful article today, Rabbi reverses interfaith marriage policy. The... Clergy Weddings, Officiation