“American Birthright” Misses the Mark
Becky Tahel Ben David’s documentary American Birthright, which centers around interfaith marriage, has been...
How Choosing Judaism Helped Me Embrace My Black, Bisexual Identity
Every Jew-by-choice’s journey to Judaism is different. And while we share some similarities, our lived experiences...
Can You Convert to Judaism? Yes, and Here Are Five People Who Did.
Since Judaism isn’t a proselytizing religion, and doesn’t seek to convert people who aren’t Jewish, many people...
Becoming a Jew By Choice: 6 Different Stories of Telling Our Families
As a Jew by choice, stepping into the waters of the mikveh to finish my conversion process is forever etched...
Becoming Jewish After 13 Years and Three Attempts
My path to Judaism took 13 years. And while I ended up marrying the first Jewish person I ever met (my now-husband...
Conversion, Identity, Jew by Choice, Marriage, Relationships
Living the Queer, Jewish Parent Life I Dreamt of When I Converted
The decision to convert to Judaism hit me like a thunderbolt and became an all-encompassing need over the course...
Love Changed My Insecurities About Religion & Cerebral Palsy
For much of my life, I found it hard to fit in. Born a triplet with Cerebral Palsy (CP), and raised in an interfaith...
How Buddhism, a Disability and My Wife Brought Me to Judaism
Developing a disability in my mid-20s pushed me into all sorts of unexpected situations: I became unemployed...
Going Virtual Has Completely Changed My Relationship With Judaism
When I was first asked to write about how Jewish ritual has changed for me during these last challenging,...
Identity, Religion, Religious Education, Shabbat, Shabbat Rituals, Spirituality
TaRessa Stovall Talks About Being Mixed Race & How We Can All Create Change
I had the honor of participating in an event that 18Doors co-sponsored with Be’chol Lashon for Loving Day (watch...
Loving My Mixed Self
What does Loving Day mean to me? The simpler answer may actually be what it doesn’t.
My racial identity and my...
Feeling Unheard as a Jewish, Queer Asian Woman
Being a Jewish queer Asian woman is more emotional labor than I have the spoons for right now. It’s Pittsburgh, Orlando and...
Anti Semitism, Identity, Jews of Color, LGBTQ, Multiracial, Race
How to React When Your People’s People are Targeted
“I know you’re not a Facebook person, but I think I need you to say something,” I said to my husband the day...
Converting to Judaism and Telling My Catholic Family
Things seemed to be working out great for my wife and me as an interfaith family:...
Conversion, Family, Identity, Parenting, Relationships, Religion
Living Our True Selves: Queer, Interfaith and in Love
I don’t remember all of the lessons my mother tried to teach me as a child; let’s be honest, most of us don’t....
Dating, Identity, LGBTQ, Relationship Challenges, Relationship Successes, Relationships
What We’re Reading & Watching About Anti-Black Racism
Like many organizations in the Jewish community, the team at 18Doors has been spending a lot of time discussing...
This Mom of an Interracial, Dual-Faith Family Has the Advice & Support We Need
Rorri Geller-Mohamed, LCSW, is a family therapist and parent coach who specializes in working with multiracial...
Identity, Parenting, Parenting Tips & Advice, Race, Young Kids
I Want My Kids to Feel “Jewish Enough”
How did this happen? How did almost three-and-a-half years go by? Wasn’t I just in the delivery room waiting...
Promukkah: A Prom Themed Hannukah Party
Photo booth credit: Mag-nificent
This year InterfaithFamily/Atlanta hosted our SECOND annual Promukkah:...
Who is a Jew?
It Depends Who You Ask
Who Was a Jew in Biblical and Rabbinic Times?
In the Torah, there are many examples of...
How to Discuss Anti-Semitism with Youths
Q: I am about to have Jewish grandchildren, and I am terrified! Don’t get me wrong; we love our son-in-law....
Why I Am a Unitarian
It is a sunny spring Sunday in Sacramento. As has been our custom for the last twelve years, my wife and I and...
The Million-Dollar Question: What Makes Someone a Jew?
August, 2007
Review of What Makes Someone a Jew? by Lauren Seidman (Jewish Lights, 2006).
Who is a Jew? The...
My Wife’s a Rabbi, My Mom’s a Minister and I’m OK
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August, 2009
You might want to sit down for this. My wife’s a rabbi, my mother’s a minister...
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