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14 Rosh Hashanah Gifts to Celebrate the New Year

By Lindsey Silken

I hope you’re as excited for Rosh Hashanah this year as I am. These are some of my favorite items to...

Culture, High Holy Days, High Holy Days Rituals, Jewish Holidays, Rosh Hashanah

10 Multicultural Jewish Food Personalities to Follow on Instagram

By Sophie Mortman

If you’re anything like the staff at 18Doors, you spend way too much time looking at food-related Instagram...

Culture, Food, Identity, Pop Culture

Lauren Monaco Makes a Culinary Splash with Peranakan, Italian American and Jewish Fusion Recipes

By Sophie Mortman

Lauren Monaco Grossman’s home is “a place where multiple cultures coexist,” she explains. Our new recipe contributor—a...

Conversion, Culture, Food, Identity, Multiracial, Pop Culture

Meet Micah Siva: Recipe Creator, World-Traveler, Dietician & Jewish Food-Lover

By Sophie Mortman

Maybe you’ve tried making our Butternut Squash Kugel, welcomed the warm weather with Mexican...

Culture, Food, Identity, Pop Culture

Get Festive With These Thanksgivukkah Recipes

By 18Doors

Some calendar years we’ll find that Hanukkah overlaps with Thanksgiving. If you’re looking for...

Culture, Hanukkah, Hanukkah Rituals, Jewish Holidays, Multicultural Food

Finding Co-Officiants: A Multi-Step Process

By Laura Drescher

Our first hurdle in planning an interfaith wedding (other than the insanity of touring and booking a venue)...

Culture, Family, Identity, Race, Religion

Hybrid Identity, Every Person Counts, Shifting Boundaries and Intermarriage on TV

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission Rabbi Darren Kleinberg...

Culture, Identity, Religion

Five Observations

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

Below are five observations from working with interfaith families that may get our hearts racing and hopefully...

Clergy, Culture, Identity, Professional Development, Religion

Our Cultural Knapsack

By Dana & Christopher

Hi–it’s Chris here. Following a Facebook link early last week, I reach this article which discusses...

Culture, Religion, Wedding Stories, Weddings

Mazel Tov Adam Levine!

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

Yesterday I overhead the following conversation between a Jewish mother and her 10-year-old son about the recent...

Couples, Culture, Relationships, Weddings

Jewish Language Cheat Sheet

By 18Doors

For some, Judaism is a religion. For others, Judaism is a culture. For other still, it’s both. And like many...

Culture, Religion

How To Say Happy Birthday In Hebrew

By 18Doors

Have you ever wondered how to wish someone a happy birthday in Hebrew? Now’s the time to learn, or get...

Culture

Tickling Leo: A Tale of Love and Loss

By Hedi Molnar

First-time director Jeremy Davidson’s film, Tickling Leo, reaches deeply into the lives of a family of...

Culture, Holocaust, Identity, Pop Culture

The Jews of Iquitos

By Ruth Abrams

We have a constant editorial dilemma chosing articles for InterfaithFamily.com. Converts to Judaism are part...

Conversion, Culture, Identity, Race, Religion

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