Like all religious groups, today’s Reform Judaism embraces a broad spectrum of interpretation, belief, and practice. A diverse range of philosophies and worship styles are reflected in this spectrum, appropriate to a liberal religious movement that affirms individual and congregational
So I know what you’re thinking…she’s a graphic designer so her wedding is going to look FABULOUS. Well, that is what I was thinking too, however, reality set-in as we started trying to plan this beast of an event. Planning
It dawned on me this afternoon as I was finally able to log into the blog as an author for the first time that most of you will probably know nothing about us. Yes. I know. You have read our
Ellyn Bache, author of eight novels including Safe Passage, which was made into a movie with Susan Sarandon, sent us an email yesterday. She’s put Holiday Miracles, a novella she wrote about Christmas and Hanukkah in an interfaith family, on
I officiated at two interfaith weddings this past Thanksgiving weekend. One wedding I co-officiated with a Catholic priest; the other was a Jewish wedding for an interfaith couple that I officiated by myself. Both weddings included many of the rituals
I profiled interfaith model and TV host Brooke Burke last September when the new season of the ABC mega-hit, Dancing with the Stars, was about to premiere. Well, ten weeks have
No more Mr. Nice Guy–Rahm Emanuel is going to be part of another presidential team, this time as the chief of staff for President-Elect Barack Obama. When he was a White House aide to then-President
When I had my bar mitzvah 18 years ago, it was truly all about the party. Back then, at least at my synagogue and in my community, there was no required community service project, kids didn’t lead the service and
I started 18Doors, formerly InterfaithFamily.com as an independent non-profit in January 2002. There was a time three or four years into it that I gave serious thought to closing down. I started to write an essay that I thought I
Beverly Hills 90210 has been revived, with a new cast and characters, on the CW network (Starts Tuesday, Sept. 2, 8:00 p.m.).
The Mills family are the core characters of the revived series. Two Mills kids
According to its dust jacket, Jim Keen’s new book, Inside Intermarriage: A Christian Partner’s Perspective on Raising a Jewish Family, is “the first and only book on intermarriage written from a Christian father’s perspective.” Even if there were others, Keen’s
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened May 22 to pretty good reviews and strong box-office. It is still in theaters around the country. For
(In which someone finally answers the question, “What about…Naomi?”)
Shavuot begins Sunday evening. Though it’s not a minor holiday in Jewish terms, it doesn’t have as much of a presence in the United States as other, better-known Jewish holidays. To
I was riding the train with my friend Catherine a few weeks ago, returning to Long Island from a day in Manhattan. Her boyfriend Josh had just broken up with her the day before. The two had started dating while
The much anticipated Sex and the City movie opens on Friday, May 30. Most of the plot has been kept secret, but the movie’s trailers reveal that there have been developments in the lives of the four female characters at
The State of Israel declared its independence 60 years ago this month. There are celebrations in Israel all month long and there are anniversary events in many other countries as well.
The most famous film about
Yesterday, I explored the study It’s Not Just Who Stands Under the Chuppah: Intermarriage and Engagement, co-authored by demographer Leonard Saxe, as well as the response that sociologist Steven Cohen offered at the Reform rabbinical convention in March.
After writing
At the Reform rabbinical convention in late March, the two leading academics in the debate over intermarriage squared off. In one corner was Leonard Saxe, director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and the Steinhardt Social Research Institute
Opening May 2 in theaters in Iron Man, a big budget flick based on the Marvel Comics’ Iron Man character. Robert Downey, Jr., whom I have profiled in this column in the past, has the title role. The film is
Being Jewish has always meant a lot to me. Particularly as I grow older, I realize how much I identify with the Jewish culture: its traditions and customs, its people and, maybe most importantly, its raison d’être — its fundamental
My immediate family is all Jewish, proudly and actively so, but my extended family, like many, if not most, American Jewish families, has Jewish and members who are not Jewish.
Of course, every Jewish family has
If you ever wondered why The New York Times is considered home to the best newspaper writing in the country, consider the following introduction from Dana Jennings’ essay “Religion Is Less a Birthright Than a Good Fit,” from last Sunday:
Kathleen and I had been together for four years when we decided the time was right for us to take our relationship to the next step. I knew that I had found my soul mate. Kathleen said she felt the
Overnight summer camp is awesome. I don’t know if I’ve ever met a former camper who disagrees.
But why do parents send their kids to summer camp? More specifically, why do Jewish parents send their kids to Jewish summer camp?
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