On Saturday, March 10th, 2018, in front of my family and community, I became a bat mitzvah at 33. The service...
On my parents’ first date my dad asked my mum if it was a problem that he wasn’t Jewish. She said it wasn’t...
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ideas and Primer for Interfaith Families
We’ve compiled the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ideas and...
To bar mitzvah or not to bar mitzvah, that is the question. Need some help? Want to learn ways to make your...
It’s been two weeks of vacation for my family in upstate New York. Nothing but fun, sun, relaxing walks by...
At the beginning of the Bar Mitzvah service for our oldest son, our rabbi asked the congregation to think...
Raising a child in a religion other than the one you grew up in is all about leading the way through...
Sam and Mary had an appointment with the rabbi. Their daughter, Rachel, was scheduled to become a Bat Mitzvah...
The days prior to my son Julian’s bar mitzvah service I worried about how my non-Jewish mother-in-law...
I met my friend Tracie at an interfaith moms event at my synagogue. She was friendly, and we bonded over her...
The email had arrived a week before I was to travel to Houston to speak to a congregation about interfaith marriage...
Before I signed the contract for the place where we would have our son’s bar mitzvah, I needed a rough...
Our son will become a bar mitzvah in about a year, and I imagine that this will be the first in a series of...
Every team’s victory is another team’s defeat, and the stakes were high two Sundays ago when the New England...
The Reconstructionist movement has once again led the way to a more inclusive Judaism by taking the bold step...
Hide and Seek
The God-game is hide-and-seek. He-She-It always seems to depart just before I get there,...
This is a post about the High Holidays. I know, you’re not ready for them. Neither am I. It’d be way better...
If there is one thing I’m passionate about, it’s expanding Judaism’s tent. After years of living as a Jewishly...
Meet Jake: He’s a student at Gateways: Access to Jewish Education. After more than two years of studying, Jake...
Mary Brodsky has helped her three adopted step-grandchildren, (l-r) Madison, Jonathan and Zoe, reach...
This week was my Bat Mitzvah Anniversary. I always feel a little lighter on my feet on my Bat Mitzvah...
[This piece, by Edmund Case and Jodi Bromberg, was published in eJewishPhilathropy on September 11, 2014.]
Taglit-Birthright...
“Mom, Dad, I want to go to Hebrew School.” This was the simple phrase of 7-year-old me that changed the course...
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My husband Charlie is a non-practicing Catholic and I am Jewish. From the get-go, we...
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