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Largest Group of Respondents from Jews of Color Initiative Study Are Interfaith Families

By Tema Smith

If you’re anything like me, the news that the Jews of Color Initiative commissioned a landmark study exploring...

Advocacy, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Professional Development

TaRessa Stovall Talks About Being Mixed Race & How We Can All Create Change

By Tani Prell

I had the honor of participating in an event that 18Doors co-sponsored with Be’chol Lashon for Loving Day (watch...

Advocacy, Identity, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Parenting

The Missing 2020 Pew Study Headlines

By Tema Smith

Imagine if we read the data differently… The Pew Research Center’s new study, “Jewish Americans in 2020,”...

Advocacy, News, Professional Development

An Open Letter to Matthew Bronfman On Behalf of Interfaith Families

By Jodi Bromberg

Dear Mr. Bronfman, Like your dad and you, I, too, am a proud Jew. I, too, say thank you, every day,...

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In Solidarity

By 18Doors

We are heartbroken and angered at the murder of George Floyd—and the mirror it holds up to our society and...

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Did You Take Notice?

By Jodi Bromberg

Jodi Bromberg, CEO, InterfaithFamily I struggled with writing this note to you. Another synagogue, another shooting,...

Advocacy

What Does Pro-Choice Have to Do with Interfaith Marriage?

By Stacie Garnett-Cook

Note: This was written in 2019. I worked in the pro-choice movement for eight years before coming to 18Doors....

Advocacy, Professional Development

Officiation: We’re Making Progress

By Edmund Case

18Doors has released a report on its survey of rabbis’ practices around officiation and co-officiation at weddings...

Advocacy, Clergy Weddings, Co-officiation, News, Officiation

Michael Chabon Didn’t Go Too Far

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission. Noted author Michael...

Advocacy, News, Professional Development

I’ll Take the Wheel, Thanks

By Becky Sowemimo

Becky & Femi celebrating Passover By Olufemi Sowemimo I’m not sure how most people turn away from...

Advocacy, Impact, News

Objective Social Science?

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission. Michelle Shain, a researcher...

Advocacy, Clergy, News, Officiation

The Conservative Officiation Debate Continues

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission. The media buzz about...

Advocacy, News

The Flip-Side: Positive News About Interfaith Marriage

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission. Alongside the negative...

Advocacy, News

Meeting People Where They Are

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove,...

Advocacy, News

Late 2016 Round-up: Major Convening, Major Research… What’s Next?

By Edmund Case

The following blog post has been reprinted with permission from Edmund Case, Founder of InterfaithFamily:...

Advocacy, Impact, News

Hopes For Our Future Children As We Prepare For Our Interfaith Wedding

By Stephanie Zulkoski

3 months until we celebrate the start of our interfaith marriage! As we inch closer and closer to our wedding...

Advocacy

My Macaroni & Cheese Lightbulb Moment

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

As I have admitted before, I see the whole world through an interfaith family lens. I am so uber-saturated in...

Advocacy

Healing the World is Our Every Day

By Amy Beth Starr

Last Spring, I had the privilege of representing my synagogue at a remarkable social justice conference organized...

Advocacy

Another Snowy Birthday for the Trees

By Jessie Boatright

The New England sun setting on the trees on their birthday eve Today is Tu Bishvat, and the trees in New England...

Advocacy

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

#ChooseLove 2015 Celebration Photo & Video Gallery

By Lindsey Silken

On October 22, 2015 we gathered with friends and colleagues at Hebrew College in Newton, MA, to honor InterfaithFamily’s...

Advocacy, Impact, 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...

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