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Living Our True Selves: Queer, Interfaith and in Love

By Ezra Samuels

I don’t remember all of the lessons my mother tried to teach me as a child; let’s be honest, most of us don’t....

Dating, Identity, LGBTQ, Relationship Challenges, Relationship Successes, Relationships

How to Celebrate Shabbat at Home with Your Partner

By Molly Kazin Marshall

Imagine looking forward to Fridays, not only because it’s the start of the weekend, but because you can make...

Dating, Relationships, Shabbat, Shabbat Rituals

5 Thanksgiving-Themed Conversation Starters for Couples

By Nicole Wasilus

These five Thanksgiving conversation starters are designed to spark dialogue between you and your partner....

Dating, Newlywed, Relationships

10 Sukkot-Inspired Date Night Ideas

By Nicole Wasilus

These creative ideas for a Sukkot-inspired date night with your partner are perfect for this year when you...

Dating, Newlywed, Relationships, Sukkot

How I Got into a Long-Distance Interfaith Relationship…After I Became Jewish

By Elle Henderson

Elle and James at the Trinity College Dublin library during her first visit to Ireland In a lot of ways, I never...

Dating, Mikveh, Relationship Challenges, Relationships

How I Knew He was Husband Material

By Laura Drescher

Zach and his great aunt Thelma When did I know Zach was husband material? It dawned on me during a trip to New...

Dating, Mikveh, Relationship Challenges, Relationships

How Two Faiths Collide

By Anna Keller

Once, I was afraid I wouldn’t ever have a boyfriend. I was almost 12, kicked out of Yeshiva, transferred to...

Dating, Relationships

The C Word

By Becky Sowemimo

It’s the conversation topic almost every interfaith couple dreads (that is, if one of the members is Christian)....

Dating, Hanukkah & Christmas, Love, Relationships, Weddings

We’re Interfaith: Now What Do I Tell My Sons about Dating?

By 18Doors

1395When I married my spouse who is not Jewish, I wanted nothing more to do with being Jewish. That...

Dating, Parenting, Parenting Challenges

A Girl, a Guy and a Waffle House

By Becky Sowemimo

In case you didn’t notice from the pictures, Femi and I are a devilishly handsome, interfaith, interracial couple....

Dating, Identity, Love, Relationships, Wedding Stories, Weddings

Swipe Right for True Love

By Becky Sowemimo

OK, I’ll come clean: I wasn’t expecting to meet my wife on Tinder. I’m not some app-phobic, anti-technology...

Dating, Love, Relationships, Religion, Wedding Stories, Weddings

A Jew-by-Choice’s Perspective on Her Teenage Daughter’s Interdating

By 18Doors

543August, 2005 What if my daughter started dating somebody who wasn’t Jewish? How should I react?...

Dating, Parenting

Advice: My Daughter Is Bringing Home A Boyfriend Who Is Not Jewish For Rosh Hashanah

By Dr. Ruth Nemzoff

Q: Recently, our twenty year old daughter called from college to announce that she is bringing home her...

Dating, Grandparents, In-laws, Relationships

Breaking the Dating Rules

By Nataliya Naydorf

“I don’t think being with someone who isn’t Jewish compromises my Judaism.” I said to my fiancé...

Dating, Relationships, Wedding Planning

Meeting the Parents of Your Jewish Daughter’s Catholic Fiance

By 18Doors

404May, 2000 Prior to Taryn’s meeting Sean, we all were sure she would marry someone Jewish. She...

Dating, Engagement, Marriage, Parenting, Weddings

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

By 18Doors

182February, 2000 There’s a book written by a leading Conservative Rabbi, Alan Silverstein, titled...

Books, Dating, Parenting

Please Stop Asking if My Daughter’s Boyfriend Is Jewish

By Judy Mollen Walters

My 22-year-old daughter is seriously involved with a wonderful guy. He’s smart, funny, kind, and they just...

Dating, Identity, Parenting, Parenting Stories, Relationships

We Chose Love with a Full Moon Ritual

By Kelly Banker

The moon has recently become new, and therefore our Jewish calendar has just transitioned to the month of Av,...

Dating, Love, Other Holidays Rituals, Relationships

Our Most Important Difference

By Kelly Banker

I had been living at Moishe Kavod House (a home-based Jewish community for young adults) for about a month...

Dating, Identity, Race, Relationships, Religion

Judaism Without Walls

By Jared David Berezin

Jared and his (now) wife Laurie being married by Rabbi Lev Baesh on Laurie’s parents’ farm in Pennsylvania Why...

Dating, Identity, Relationships, Religion, Synagogue

Why I Waited for Interfaith Love

By Brianne Nadeau

It took me 20 years to find the love of my life. If you told me 10 years ago, or even 15 years ago that I’d...

Dating, Growing Up Interfaith, Identity, Love, Relationships, Religion

I Chose to Be Jewish. This is Why

By Tamara Reese

When my family moved to Pittsburgh, my son was 10 weeks old and my husband was entering into a grueling six-year...

Dating, Engagement, Love, Relationships, Wedding Stories, Weddings

The Mikveh Is Better Together

By 18Doors

By Kelly Banker Photo courtsey of Mayyim Hayyim As a young Jew raised in a secular home, I never imagined that...

Dating, Mikveh, Relationships, Spirituality

I’m Finally Dating Again Post-Divorce… But He’s Not Jewish

By 18Doors

I’m dating. Again. Post-divorce, post 50, I’m dating. I suppose it’s fitting—I didn’t do much dating during...

Dating, Divorce

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