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A Michigan Yankee in Israel’s Court

By Jim Keen

It turns out that she has a strong allegiance to another country — Israel. Since our interfaith relationship...

Identity, Israel, Relationships

I’m Catholic and She’s Jewish Yet I’m Optimistic About Our Future

By Joseph Smith

Within a month of my first date with Sarah, she invited me to attend her family’s seder (ritual Passover...

Jewish Catholic Relationships, Relationships

We Have Similar Personalities, Passions and Beliefs, but Different Religions

By Sarah Smith

Jon and I met last spring at a voter registration drive in Harlem. As we worked that day we began to chat, and...

Relationships

Sikh and Jew: East Meets West

By Daniel Koch

A new marriage trend has emerged in the last few years: some Jews are marrying not only outside of Judaism,...

Jewish Muslim Relationships, Relationships, Weddings

rings

Why Do Jews Marry Catholics?

By Karen Goldberg Goff

A recent landmark study of Americans’ religious behavior confirmed what many observers of interfaith marriage...

Marriage, Relationships

Cultural Differences and Value Similarities: How We Deal with It All

By Judi Brooks

First the most obvious differences: he’s black, I’m white; he grew up in the South (Miami, Fla.,),...

Relationships

Having a Yahrzeit For My Lutheran Dad

By Tara Worthey Segal

I formally converted to Judaism one month after I lost my father and two weeks before getting married. I hadn’t...

Parenting, Parenting Stories, Spirituality

The Wrong Lessons

By Alina Adams

In the 1987 classic fractured fairy tale, The Princess Bride, as the dwarf genius, Vizzini (Wallace Shawn),...

Pop Culture, Relationships

Please Stop Asking if My Daughter’s Boyfriend Is Jewish

By Judy Mollen Walters

My 22-year-old daughter is seriously involved with a wonderful guy. He’s smart, funny, kind, and they just...

Dating, Identity, Parenting, Parenting Stories, Relationships

The Perfect Recipe

By Heather Subba

My husband and I fell in love in the spring of 2004. We were taking quick cover from an outburst of afternoon...

Relationships

Managing a Mixed Marriage of Red Sox and Yankee Fans

By Shelly Schweizer

A few years ago, my family traveled to Washington for a short vacation. One of my dearest friends, Patty, who...

Relationships

Shabbat Unbound

By Jared David Berezin

Many years ago I was in a book club and read a collection of essays called Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call...

Marriage, Shabbat, Shabbat Food, Shabbat Rituals

hearts

We Chose Love with a Full Moon Ritual

By Kelly Banker

The moon has recently become new, and therefore our Jewish calendar has just transitioned to the month of Av,...

Dating, Love, Other Holidays Rituals, Relationships

Key Ingredients for a Lasting Interfaith Marriage

By Elizabeth Vocke

When my husband and I first started dating I was what you might call a serial monogamist—I had a string of...

Marriage, Marriage Tips, Parenting, Religion

Kelly and Courtney

Our Most Important Difference

By Kelly Banker

I had been living at Moishe Kavod House (a home-based Jewish community for young adults) for about a month...

Dating, Identity, Multiracial, Race, Relationship Challenges, Relationships, Religion

Judaism Without Walls

By Jared David Berezin

Jared and his (now) wife Laurie being married by Rabbi Lev Baesh on Laurie’s parents’ farm in Pennsylvania Why...

Dating, Identity, Relationships, Religion, Synagogue

Why I Waited for Interfaith Love

By Brianne Nadeau

It took me 20 years to find the love of my life. If you told me 10 years ago, or even 15 years ago that I’d...

Dating, Growing Up Interfaith, Identity, Love, Relationships, Religion

The End of One LGBT Journey is the Beginning of Another

By Gretchen Rachel Hammond

Throughout my life, I was a person in search of a religion to call my own. Born in the United Kingdom to a...

Conversion, Identity, Israel, LGBTQ, Religion

mom and baby

Why I Chose To Be Jewish

By Tamara Reese

When my family moved to Pittsburgh, my son was 10 weeks old and my husband was entering into a grueling six-year...

Conversion, Parenting

I’m Down with Shabbat… After I Look Up What It Is

By Robyn Bacon

Like his other mother, my 4-month old son Sam is Jewish. I am not. I was born and raised Catholic. My mother...

Grandparenting, Identity, Parenting Stories, Shabbat

Being Jewish (and Buddhist and Christian and Chinese)

By Amourence Lee

  A good story is supposed to have a beginning, middle and end, right? Well, this story about being Jewish...

Identity, Jewish Buddhist Relationships, Jewish Chinese Relationships, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Parenting, Parenting Stories

The Mikveh Is Better Together

By Kelly Banker

As a young Jew raised in a secular home, I never imagined that being in a committed relationship with someone...

Dating, Mikveh, Relationships, Spirituality

You Got That from Me—and My Mother

By Leigh Blander

Leigh & her mom circa 1976 After belting out an energetic rendition of “The Bare Necessities” recently,...

Grandparents, Motherhood, Parenting, Parenting Stories

Passover in Morocco, Iceland and Beyond

By Leigh Blander

Growing up with a dad who was a Navy pilot, my family celebrated Jewish holidays in some pretty far-flung places...

Parenting Passover, Passover, Passover Rituals, Seder

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