What We’re Reading & Watching About Anti-Black Racism
Like many organizations in the Jewish community, the team at 18Doors has been spending a lot of time discussing...
This Mom of an Interracial, Dual-Faith Family Has the Advice & Support We Need
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!)
The days and weeks are all running together as we are adjusting to this new normal in self-quarantine. Have...
Talking to Children About Events in Pittsburgh and Anti-Semitism
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor,...
Anti Semitism, Identity, News, Parenting Stories, Young Kids
How Do We Bring Two Faiths into Our Everyday?
Often couples of the same faith join a religious community together after getting married. As an interfaith...
How I Came to Embrace My Important Role in Judaism
Carrying a Torah out of the ark.
On Saturday, March 10th, 2018, in front of my family and community, I became...
It’s Not My Face that Makes Me Jewish
Rabbi Jillian, age 6
I recently read an incredible article posted in Alma, written by a former congregant of...
Who is a Jew?
It Depends Who You Ask
Who Was a Jew in Biblical and Rabbinic Times?
In the Torah, there are many examples of...
Converting Meant Adding Judaism, Not Losing Japanese
Kristin at her synagogue, Congregation Emanu-el. Credit: Laurel Street Kitchen
On March 22, 2016, I completed...
A Girl, a Guy and a Waffle House
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
What Moved Me in the New Year
I hope your Jewish holidays this year were good. Despite all of the bad news in the world, my holidays were...
Is the Jewish Community a Mean Girl?
“The organized Jewish community is nothing more than the mean girls from high school.”
What?! I think I literally...
Jews Like Me
At Jewish summer camp (Camp Tawonga, to be specific), I felt a little different than the other campers. I wasn’t...
My Wife’s a Rabbi, My Mom’s a Minister and I’m OK
1044
August, 2009
You might want to sit down for this. My wife’s a rabbi, my mother’s a minister...
I’m not an “Interfaith Rabbi”
“Meet Robyn,” my friend, who is Jewish, said with a smile as she introduced me to her Christian daughter-in-law....
Two Faiths Becoming One Family
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
Insomnia. It’s awful and I’ve never had it before. Until now.
Part of this has to do with me getting pregnant...
Proud to be LGBTQI and Interfaith
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
127
May, 2008
I am single-handedly destroying the Jewish community. Or so I’ve been told.
Well, maybe...
Finding Co-Officiants: A Multi-Step Process
Our first hurdle in planning an interfaith wedding (other than the insanity of touring and booking a venue)...
Three Denominations Under One Roof
A Reform rabbi, a Conservative rabbi and a 17-year-old Orthodox Yeshiva student sit down to eat Shabbat dinner…...
Mom: What is Your Religion?
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
The Religious Identity of an Interfaith Home is a Journey, Not a Destination
Up until recently, I thought the hardest part of navigating life as an interfaith family was determining the...
Hybrid Identity, Every Person Counts, Shifting Boundaries and Intermarriage on TV
This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission
Rabbi Darren Kleinberg...
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