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6 Activities for Tu Bishvat with Kids

By Miriam Steinberg-Egeth

Tu Bishvat is sometimes called the Jewish Earth Day or the Birthday of the Trees. This family-friendly holiday...

Books, Holiday How To, Parenting, Parenting Other Holidays, Tu Bishvat

Confronting the Charge that the Gospels are Anti-Semitic

By Menachem Wecker

A review of Modern Jews Engage the New Testament: Enhancing Jewish Well-being in a Christian Environment (Jewish...

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Flying Couch, Millennials, the Holocaust & Interfaith Marriage

By Edmund Case

I had a very interesting experience recently when Amy Kurzweil, author of Flying Couch, A Graphic Memoir,...

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The Million-Dollar Question: What Makes Someone a Jew?

By Rabbi Adam Chalom

August, 2007 Review of What Makes Someone a Jew? by Lauren Seidman (Jewish Lights, 2006). Who is a Jew? The...

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5 Rosh Hashanah Stories to Read with Your Preschooler

By PJ Library

This post originally appeared on PJ Library and is reprinted with permission. Chances are, your preschooler...

Books, High Holy Days for Parents, Rosh Hashanah

A Review of Interfaith Families: Personal Stories of Jewish-Christian Intermarriage

By Cheryl F. Coon

Interfaith Families: Personal Stories of Jewish-Christian Intermarriage by Jane Kaplan. Praeger Publishers;...

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Mixed Blessings: Creating Positive Interfaith, Interracial, and Interethnic Relationships

By Marlena Thompson

505 July, 2001 Review of Mixed Matches: How to Create Successful Interracial, Interethnic, and Interfaith...

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Inside Intermarriage: A Christian Partner’s Journey Raising a Jewish Family

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission. August 1, 2017...

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The Jewish Wedding Now

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission. I don’t have any weddings...

Books, Engagement, Wedding Ritual, Weddings

The Sacred Goal of Interfaith Family Inclusion

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

I recently got introduced to a children’s book called Zero by Kathryn Otoshi. It’s a book aimed at preschoolers,...

Books, LGBTQ, Professional Development, Professionals Stories

How to Talk to Your Kids about Interfaith Dating: For Those Married to Jews or in Interfaith Marriages

By Edmund Case

There’s a book written by a leading Conservative Rabbi, Alan Silverstein, titled It All Begins With A...

Books, Dating, Parenting

A Christian Tells How and Why She is Raising Jewish Children

By Judy Petsonk

There has not been much guidance available for the Christian who has decided to help raise children as Jews....

Books, Parenting

A Family Seder for Rosh Hashanah

By Benjamin Maron

Eating together can bring a family together. We often suggest inviting family members who aren’t Jewish...

Books, High Holy Days, High Holy Days Rituals, Holiday How To

Hanukkah AND Christmas: 7 Books for Interfaith Children

By Susan Katz

This article was originally published on Susan Katz Miller’s blog, onbeingboth.com. You can also find...

Books, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas

A series of books lined up on their spines and another book open laying on top of them, all against a bright blue background.

How to Raise a Jewish Dog

By Jane Larkin

Two-and-a-half years ago, when we got our dog Brady, my son asked if an animal can have a religion. The question...

Books, Parenting Stories

Q&A with Simone Bloom Nathan

By Lindsey Silken

Simone Nathan, author of Eight Candles and a Tree, chats with us about her inspiration for the children’s book...

Books, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas

My December Disaster

By Jane Larkin

1183 November 25, 2014 The following is a collection of excerpts from the chapter “My December Disaster”...

Books, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas

Kids’ Books That Matter: Lashon Hara/Gossiping

By Kathy Bloomfield

We recently started getting People magazine as part of a “trade airline miles for subscriptions” deal. Because...

Books, Young Kids

Lessons from ‘My Basmati Bat Mitzvah’

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

I don’t normally read books written for middle schoolers, but I was in the children’s section of my local library...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Books

Kids’ Books that Matter: Remember the Days of Old – Zachor/Remembrance

By Kathy Bloomfield

We traveled fairly extensively with our kids when they were young. We took wide-ranging road trips throughout...

Books, Young Kids

Best Children’s Passover Books: Expanding the Story of Passover

By Kathy Bloomfield

Passover is one of the best Jewish holidays for unleashing creative energy in a variety of ways. Millions of...

Books, Passover, Young Kids

Kids’ Books that Matter: Give Graciously, Cheerfully & Sympathetically*: Nedivut/Generosity

By Kathy Bloomfield

*Moses Maimonides, aka RaMBaM (1135-1204) When the Christmas candy was displayed next to the Halloween candy...

Books, Young Kids

Kids’ Books that Matter: A November Dilemma: Hanukkah + Thanksgiving!

By Kathy Bloomfield

As if it were not difficult enough getting ready for Rosh Hashanah two days after Labor Day, this year...

Books, Hanukkah, Young Kids

Kids’ Books that Matter: Distributing Gleanings from Today’s Fields: Leket/Gleanings, Shikheḥah/Forgotten, & Pe’ah/Corners

By Kathy Bloomfield

It is most definitely fall. The leaves have turned spectacular shades of yellow, orange and red. The days are...

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