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Simchat Torah: Celebrate the Endings and Rejoice the Beginnings

By Ryan Mount

The Grooms Party We just celebrated Simchat Torah as a community. The purpose of the holiday is to celebrate...

Extended Family, Jewish Holidays, Mikveh, Simchat Torah, Wedding Stories, Weddings

Symbols and Rituals and Traditions. Oh my.

By Anne Goodman

These last few months have been busy with dress fittings, selecting the menu, arranging the seating chart, creating...

Breaking the Glass, Christian Jewish Wedding, Chuppah, Co-officiation, Extended Family, In-laws, Ketubah, Religion, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Planning, Wedding Ritual, Weddings

A Keefe Easter

By Anne Goodman

I think the Passover/Easter combination is more difficult than Hanukkah/Christmas. This is because Easter most...

Christian Jewish Wedding, Easter, Extended Family, In-laws, Wedding Stories, Weddings

Passover Seder with Both Families

By Anne Goodman

Won’t you help to sing / These songs of freedom? We’re currently in the middle of one of the most widely-observed...

Extended Family, In-laws, Passover, Passover Rituals, Seder

A Beautiful Shower

By Dana & Christopher

Since Chris and I have been planning our wedding for so long, it’s strange to think that it will actually...

Extended Family, Family, In-laws, Wedding Stories, Weddings

It’s OK to Go Alone

By Marilyn Wacks

Yesterday my husband asked for my advice about how to help a friend of his. His friend wanted to know how he...

Extended Family, Family, Religion, Spirituality, Synagogue

Meeting the Extended Family on Passover

By Anne Goodman

Before meeting Sam’s extended family, I had met his parents very briefly for a slice of mid-afternoon pie. ...

Extended Family, Jewish Holidays, Passover, Seder

Meeting the Family

By Anne Goodman

Typically, when I tell friends, coworkers, and acquaintances how many siblings Anne has, responses range from...

Extended Family, Family, In-laws, Wedding Stories, Weddings

Advice for Jewish Parents when Your Child Gets Engaged to Someone Who isn’t Jewish

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

As a rabbi, it’s not unusual for me to get a call from a Jewish parent whose child is engaged to someone who...

Extended Family, Family, Parenting, Parenting Adult Children

Let Us Build a City: Interfaith Weddings as an Act of Translation

By Matt Rice

Shannon practiced saying “Shanah tovah” during the week leading up to Rosh Hashanah. “How do you say that thing?”...

Extended Family, In-laws, Officiant, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Stories, Weddings

How to Be at Home in the Minority

By Lindsey Silken

Straddling two worlds, feeling like an outsider, taking on the identity of your family but still retaining your...

Extended Family, Parenting Stories, Vegan, Young Kids

How We’re Alienating Our Youth

By Lindsey Silken

As the new managing editor at InterfaithFamily, I want our blog to be a place where our readers can find out...

Co-officiation, Extended Family, Newlywed, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Recap, Wedding Ritual, Weddings

White Poinsettias and Blue Foil

By Benjamin Maron

This is a guest post by Ruth Nemzoff who, in addition to being on InterfaithFamily’s Advisory Board, is...

Extended Family, Hanukkah

Resolving Conflicts Of Easter and Passover

By Sunie Levin

Every year, the Easter/Passover dilemma surfaces in interfaith families. This year, the first seder for Passover...

Easter, Extended Family, Family, Grandparenting, Passover

Love Thy Mother-In-Law

By Lula Jones

Where does one put her individuality and feminism aside for the greater good? This is the question I face. I’m...

Extended Family, In-laws, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Planning, Weddings

Extending a Welcome to Extended Family

By 18Doors

559 Remember that old saying: You’re not just marrying the girl; you’re marrying her family....

Extended Family

Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother: Reflections on Being Part of An Interfaith Family

By 18Doors

873 Originally published June, 1999. Republished July 15, 2011. Dedicated to the memory of my father-in-law,...

Extended Family

When Breaking the Fast, Bagels and Lox Still Rule: Plus Recipes for Yom Kippur

By Linda Morel

NEW YORK, July 28 (JTA) — I grew up in a family that never seemed to do anything right. Our...

Beverage, Extended Family, High Holy Days Recipes, Recipes

Easter Seders and Passover Bunnies

By Jeri Zeder

What do you do when your mother-in-law sends chocolate Easter bunnies to your Jewish children? When she brings...

Easter, Extended Family, Family, In-laws, Parenting, Parenting Passover, Passover

Eggs and Plagues: Handling Easter and Passover in Our Interfaith Family

By Jim Keen

Spring in Michigan is always a welcomed event. Just ask anyone who has ever spent a winter here. So when the...

Easter, Extended Family, Family, Passover

The Wedding!

By Bryan Daneman

This was originally published as in InterfaithFamily.com’s Web Magazine. All was ready. Downstairs,...

Christian Jewish Wedding, Co-officiation, Extended Family, In-laws, Newlywed, Reception, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Recap, Weddings

Walking Seven Circles

By 18Doors

186 July 25, 2006 My wife and I completed our wedding ceremony by walking seven circles together. Not the...

Circumcision, Extended Family, Marriage, Parenting

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