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Let Us Now Praise Famous Mensches: Celebrating Interfaith Marriage

By Matt Rice

This morning I put a cross into a drawer. It was a cradle cross that Leacock Presbyterian Church gave my parents...

Family, Identity, Relationships, Religion, Wedding Stories, Weddings

How to Be Inclusive

By Wendy Armon

A few weeks ago, my son was reading Torah at a Saturday evening service. It is a very small service of 15-20...

Family, Marriage, Religion, Spirituality

My Dream Guest List for Sukkot

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

I love the holiday of Sukkot! As a congregational rabbi, Sukkot—which comes just five days after Yom Kippur—offers...

Family, Other Holidays Rituals

A Christian Bar Mitzvah?

By Benjamin Maron

I’ve watched this video a few times and I’m still not sure how I feel about this. Did you catch...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Family, Parenting, Religion

Hanukkah Can Be Hard!

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

Here are some of the challenges I hear from interfaith couples about Hanukkah: Lighting the menorah is too...

Family, Hindu Jewish Wedding, Love, Parenting Stories, Relationships

Trees Are Sensitive

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

For years now, synagogues and Jewish community centers have been offering “December Dilemma” programs....

Family, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Young Kids

Interfaith Rollercoaster

By Wendy Armon

I recently attended the symposium called “Interfaith Rollercoaster: Navigating the Challenges, Enjoying...

Family, In-laws, Marriage, Relationships

The Wedding: A Mixed Blessing

By Sarah Callahan

176 Originally published June 2005. Republished May 7, 2012 I have dreamed about my wedding since I was...

Family, In-laws, Wedding Planning, Weddings

Gefilte Fish

By Benjamin Maron

We recently asked readers for their gefilte fish stories. We didn’t really say more than that, hoping...

Family, Jewish Holidays, Passover, Passover Food, Passover Rituals, Seder

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

Six months later…reflections on an interfaith wedding and life as married couple

By Mia Howard Tavan

[color=purple][b]First, a confession:[/b][/color] Hey there, Mia here, who married Ethan in July and wrote about...

Family, Jewish and Weddings, Jewish Holidays, Marriage, Newlywed, Wedding Recap, Weddings

How Two Baby Naming Ceremonies Helped a Jew-By-Choice Come to Terms With Her Catholic Parents

By Marina Williams

I am a Jew-by-choice. I always felt drawn to Judaism and it was no surprise to anyone when I started dating...

Baby Naming, Baby Planning, Birth Ceremony, Conversion, Family, Grandparents, New Parents, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Stories, Pregnancy Stories

Phoenix Here We Come, Phoenix Here We Are

By Mia Howard Tavan

This week, Ethan was freed from the bonds of the academic calendar (boy, finals are fun) and we near instantly...

Family, Wedding Food, Wedding Planning, Wedding Venue, Weddings

Developing a Vision of the Future of Asian-Jewish Families

By Hedi Molnar

Last month more than 500,000 junior high school students, teachers and parents received an issue of Junior...

Family, Identity, Jews of Color, Multiracial

Memorial Day, 2010

By Edmund Case

Today is Memorial Day and I want to honor my father-in-law, Don Bosworth. Don is a World War II veteran and...

Family, Identity

The LULAX is Official!

By Lula Jones

WE DID IT! We got hitched went on a fabulous honeymoon in the city of sin and now we’re trying to get...

Family, Newlywed, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Recap, Wedding Ritual, Weddings

A Jewish Rainbow: Transcultural and Transracial Adoption

By Shelley Kapneck Rosenberg

636 Jessica, who was adopted from Korea at age two, has three small flags on a stand in her bedroom, one...

Adoption, Family

How My Atheist Husband Helps Celebrate the Jewish Holidays

By 18Doors

341 Originally published September, 2001. Republished October 16, 2012. Bill and I are approaching our...

Family, Jewish Holidays, Parenting

Guide to Birth Ceremonies for Interfaith Families

By 18Doors

We compiled the Guide to Birth Ceremonies for Interfaith Families as a way to help interfaith families navigate...

Birth Ceremony, Family, Parenting

How I Prepared My Kids for Their First Mass and Their Aunt’s Catholic Wedding

By Jeri Zeder

My guys, Isaac and Dylan, eight and four respectively, had never been inside a Catholic church when my sister-in-law,...

Family, Parenting Stories

Interfaith Divorce, a Life Passage That Is Possible To Do Well

By Rabbi Julie Greenberg

284 For some interfaith families, divorce will be a trying passage through which they must pass. At this...

Co-Parenting, Divorce, Family, Parenting, Parenting Challenges

My Spiritual Journey and My Father’s

By Rachel Mauro

My father and I share a common story. We both grew up in big cities populated by people of our ethnicities,...

Family, Growing Up Interfaith

Have You Heard the One about the Priest and the Rabbi?

By Teresa McMahon

624 “So, there was a priest and a rabbi. . . ” Whenever my husband Barry and I tell the story...

Family

“Untitled” from Jew-Ish Tales from Interfaith Homes

By Maya Gottfried

Maya Gottfried’s “Untitled” is excerpted from Half/Life: Jew-Ish Tales from Interfaith Homes,...

Family, Parenting

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