Starting Religious School and Keeping Promises
In my previous blog post, I wrote about why choosing love did not mean choosing conversion for me; but for...
Author: Emily Mace
Why Choosing Love Didn’t Mean Conversion for Me
Although I am the half that’s not Jewish in an interfaith marriage, my husband never put conversion on...
Celebrating Holidays in a Post-Election December
I don’t know how to celebrate the holidays this year, with an election outcome that’s rocked the nation and...
Things Toddlers Say At Services
With the drama of the High Holidays receding into the past, I find myself thinking about the charms and challenges...
Our Nonexistent Springtime Dilemma
My daughter shows off her Easter egg hunt success
Easter and Passover, in my experience, don’t create the same...
Do We Need an Interfaith Community?
Where do Jewish-Christian interfaith families turn to find a community of like-minded souls? A church and a...
The Twelve Days of Interfaith Holidays
With not quite 12 days between Hanukkah and Christmas this year (depending on just how you count), I thought...
Two Holidays, Twice the Festivities: But One at a Time
I have always loved the holiday season, and celebrating Hanukkah as an interfaith family brings with it an extra...
Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories, Young Kids
Traditions are Languages, Too
Traditions are languages, too.
Or at least, this is what my six-year-old daughter Laurel would have me believe....
Grief in the Days of Awe
Two weeks ago, I wrote that I didn’t know yet what I would do for Yom Kippur. In the end, the Books of Life...
Learning to Think Ahead about Holidays
One of the biggest challenges for me as an interfaith spouse and parent has been learning to think ahead about...
Weddings Speak To All of Us…And We’re Listening
Ben and I signed our ketubah, now 10 years ago
Recently I attended a long-time friend’s Conservative Jewish...
Judaism through Food and Crafts
Recently, my family and I attended a “Sunday in the Park with Bagels” event sponsored by Big Tent Judaism, which...
Services and the Summertime Quiet
This past week, my family stumbled late into the pizza dinner before one of our local congregation’s children’s...
Singing Songs at an Interfaith Bedtime
Reading “The Bedtime Sh’ma” with Laurel at bedtime.
At bedtime recently, 5-year-old Laurel...
Planning for a First Shavuot
Despite being part of a Jewish family for the past decade, I have never celebrated Shavuot. After the excitement...
Parenting, Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Stories, Shavuot
Baby Namings and the Flexibility of Tradition
When I was pregnant with our first daughter, my husband and I were living in the mountains of North Carolina....
Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Purim, Parenting Stories
Choosing an Identity For Our Children, and Watching Them Choose it Themselves
Emily’s 19-person seder brought enjoyment to a gathering of 19 friends and family
Recently, my older daughter...
Thirteen Years of Passover: An Interfaith Introduction
Setting the Passover seder table
This year, I’ll be celebrating my 13th Passover with my husband. As a way of...
The Unintended Consequences of Blintzes for Blitzen
My Jewish husband and I (a Unitarian Universalist) might not have known what we were getting into when we decided...
Parenting Challenges, Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories
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