Parenting Challenges

Apples cut in half and a jar of honey sitting on a table.

Highs and Lows: Jewish Holidays from the Sidelines

By Birger Stamperdahl

Jewish holidays can be the greatest—as well as the hardest—aspect of being part of an interfaith family. My...

High Holy Days, Marriage, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Rosh Hashanah, Parenting Stories, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

Can We Talk?

I was very happy to see a report on Beliefnet that the US Council of Catholic Bishops apologized to Jewish leaders...

Books, Motherhood, Parenting, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Young Kids

How Do I Explain the Religious Spectrum to My 7-Year-Old?

By Felice Indinoli Bochman

702 We were watching Fiddler on the Roof, my daughter’s favorite musical. During the scene in which...

Divorce, Parenting, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Stories

Flexibility Is Key

By Nancy Laufer

361 My parents were relieved when I finally married a nice Jewish man. My adult life had been jump-started...

Identity, Parenting Challenges, Relationships

Double Happiness: Parenting a Jewish Teen

Born in China, daughter to a second-generation Holocaust survivor and an Italian-American Catholic father: Who...

Identity, Multiracial, Parenting, Parenting Challenges, Race

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

Pregnant woman holding her belly.

Two Sons (One Circumcised and One Not), a Scottish Presbyterian Husband and Me (the Jewish Mother)

By Laura Abby Lipman

I hoped that I wouldn’t have a boy. A girl would be so much easier—no bris. “But why circumcision?”...

Bris, Circumcision, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Stories, Pregnancy

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