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Going Virtual Has Completely Changed My Relationship With Judaism

By Kristin Eriko Posner

When I was first asked to write about how Jewish ritual has changed for me during these last challenging,...

Identity, Religion, Religious Education, Shabbat, Shabbat Rituals, Spirituality

Kindness is Paramount in Our Interfaith, Interracial Relationship

By Kimberly Sara Kabonga

One of the questions David asked me on our first date was, “Are you looking for someone Jewish?” He didn’t...

Dating, Engagement, Identity, Multiracial, Relationships

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

TaRessa Stovall Talks About Being Mixed Race & How We Can All Create Change

By Tani Prell

Earlier this month, 18Doors co-sponsored Be’chol Lashon’s Loving Day Kabbalat Shabbat (watch the recording...

Advocacy, Identity, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Parenting

What Does Jewish Identity Look Like in Your Home?

By 18Doors

We recently asked parents and grandparents to weigh in about what’s important to you about raising your kids/grandkids...

Grandparents, Identity, Parenting

Loving My Mixed Self

By Tani Prell

What does Loving Day mean to me? The simpler answer may actually be what it doesn’t. My racial identity and my...

Conversion, Identity, Jew by Choice, Multiracial, Race

Feeling Unheard as a Jewish, Queer Asian Woman

By Carmel Tanaka

Being a Jewish queer Asian woman is more emotional labor than I have the spoons for right now. It’s Pittsburgh, Orlando and...

Anti Semitism, Identity, Jews of Color, LGBTQ, Multiracial, Race

How to React When Your People’s People are Targeted

By Lauren Schreiber Sasaki

“I know you’re not a Facebook person, but I think I need you to say something,” I said to my husband the day...

Anti Semitism, Extended Family, Family, Identity, Marriage

Converting to Judaism and Telling My Catholic Family

By Joe Grasso

Things seemed to be working out great for my wife and me as an interfaith family:...

Conversion, Family, Identity, Parenting, Relationships, Religion

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

What We’re Reading & Watching About Anti-Black Racism

By Tema Smith

Like many organizations in the Jewish community, the team at 18Doors has been spending a lot of time discussing...

Identity, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Race

This Mom of an Interracial, Dual-Faith Family Has the Advice & Support We Need

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

Rorri Geller-Mohamed, LCSW, is a family therapist and parent coach who specializes in working with multiracial...

Identity, Parenting, Parenting Tips & Advice, Race, Young Kids

Talking to Children About Events in Pittsburgh and Anti-Semitism

By Dr. Ruth Nemzoff

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor,...

Anti Semitism, Identity, News, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

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How Do We Bring Two Faiths into Our Everyday?

By Laura Drescher

Often couples of the same faith join a religious community together after getting married. As an interfaith...

Identity, Religion, Religious Life, Resources, Spirituality

How I Came to Embrace My Important Role in Judaism

By Kristin Eriko Posner

On Saturday, March 10th, 2018, in front of my family and community, I became a bat mitzvah at 33. The service...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Conversion, Identity, Jews of Color, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Synagogue

It’s Not My Face that Makes Me Jewish

By Rabbi Jillian Cameron

Rabbi Jillian, age 6 I recently read an incredible article posted in Alma, written by a former congregant of...

Growing Up Interfaith, Identity

Who is a Jew?

By 18Doors

It Depends Who You Ask Who Was a Jew in Biblical and Rabbinic Times? In the Torah, there are many examples of...

Identity

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

Converting Meant Adding Judaism, Not Losing Japanese

By Kristin Eriko Posner

Kristin at her synagogue, Congregation Emanu-el. Credit: Laurel Street Kitchen On March 22, 2016, I completed...

Conversion, Identity

Is the Jewish Community a Mean Girl?

By Rabbi Samantha Kahn

“The organized Jewish community is nothing more than the mean girls from high school.” What?! I think I literally...

Identity, Religion, Religious Life, Spirituality, Synagogue

Jews Like Me

By Aimee Ellis

At Jewish summer camp (Camp Tawonga, to be specific), I felt a little different than the other campers. I wasn’t...

Camp, Family, Growing Up Interfaith, Identity, Religion

My Wife’s a Rabbi, My Mom’s a Minister and I’m OK

By Isaac Goldstein Luria

1044 August, 2009 You might want to sit down for this. My wife’s a rabbi, my mother’s a minister...

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