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Feeling Unheard as a Jewish, Queer Asian Woman

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

#FancyFriday Is for Everyone (Especially During Quarantine!)

By 18Doors

The days and weeks are all running together as we are adjusting to this new normal in self-quarantine. Have...

Culture, Identity, Shabbat

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

Carrying a Torah out of the ark. On Saturday, March 10th, 2018, in front of my family and community, I became...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Identity, Religion, Spirituality

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...

Identity

I’m not an “Interfaith Rabbi”

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

“Meet Robyn,” my friend, who is Jewish, said with a smile as she introduced me to her Christian daughter-in-law....

Clergy, Identity, Religion

How Two Faiths Became One Family

By Laura Drescher

Zach making curried latkes for Hanukkah I recently joined a Facebook group that InterfaithFamily started to...

Christian Jewish Wedding, God, Identity, Religion, Wedding Stories, Weddings

Bringing Some Dharma to My Jewish-Catholic Household

By Anna Keller

Insomnia. It’s awful and I’ve never had it before. Until now. Part of this has to do with me getting pregnant...

Identity, Staff

Two women with their arms around one another smiling.

Proud to be LGBTQI and Interfaith

By Rabbi Mychal Copeland

Rabbi Mychal Copeland served as director of 18Doors/Bay Area until June, 2017 and is now the rabbi at Sha’ar...

Identity, LGBTQ, Professional Development, Professionals Stories

Back Talk

By Alina Adams

127 May, 2008 I am single-handedly destroying the Jewish community. Or so I’ve been told. Well, maybe...

Identity

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

Mom: What is Your Religion?

By Rabbi Jillian Cameron

Being from an interfaith family has influenced my life in myriad ways, most especially in my choice to focus...

Family, Growing Up Interfaith, Identity, Parenting, Religion

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