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Parenting

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Our Son’s Naming Ceremony

By Rena Mello

392 April, 2001 Being pregnant was an overwhelming joy. As first time parents, Eric and I took the requisite...

Baby Naming, Parenting

The Religious Identity of an Interfaith Home is a Journey, Not a Destination

By Jane Larkin

Up until recently, I thought the hardest part of navigating life as an interfaith family was determining the...

Identity, Parenting, Parenting Stories

The Kids’ Table

By Anna Keller

Passover is my favorite Jewish holiday because it is mostly about storytelling. Every year, my family sits...

Parenting, Parenting Passover, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

synagogue darkest

Our Gay, Interfaith Family’s Surprising Synagogue-Shopping Experience

By Liat Katz

“A Y A M,” She writes. “Um, Maya, I think you wrote your name backwards,” I respond. “Nope, it’s just in Hebrew,”...

LGBTQ, Parenting, Parenting Stories, Religion, Religious Education, Synagogue

Easter dinner

Why We Say Yes to the Easter Invite

By Sarah Rizzo

The phone rang and I heard my dad’s apprehensive voice. “Hi Sarah. I have a bit of a strange question for you....

Easter, Extended Family, Family, In-laws, Parenting, Parenting Passover, Passover

Having a Yahrzeit For My Lutheran Dad

By Tara Worthey Segal

I formally converted to Judaism one month after I lost my father and two weeks before getting married. I hadn’t...

Parenting, Parenting Stories, Spirituality

Starting Religious School and Keeping Promises

By Emily Mace

In my previous blog post, I wrote about why choosing love did not mean choosing conversion for me; but for...

Parenting, Parenting Stories, Religious Education

How to Talk to Your Kids about Interfaith Dating: For Those Married to Jews or in Interfaith Marriages

By Edmund Case

There’s a book written by a leading Conservative Rabbi, Alan Silverstein, titled It All Begins With A...

Books, Dating, Parenting

Teaching Jewish Values to Your Children

By Rabbi Lev Baesh

According to the Talmud (the fourth-century rabbinic legal code), parents are required to teach their children...

Parenting, Religious Education

Is Every Value a Jewish Value?

By Alina Adams

My husband, Scott, is African-American and Christian. I am Jewish. Our two sons are African-American...

Parenting

roses by fence

Celebrating a Holiday That’s Not My Own

By Anna Keller

It’s Valentine’s Day and I’m sitting in my car at 8 a.m. listening to a Jack Kornfield meditation talk called...

Parenting, Parenting Stories

Make the Most of this Valentine’s Day

By Jessie Boatright

I have not posted here in a little while. In part, because the business of life has caught up with me, and,...

Parenting, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

Please Stop Asking if My Daughter’s Boyfriend Is Jewish

By Judy Mollen Walters

My 22-year-old daughter is seriously involved with a wonderful guy. He’s smart, funny, kind, and they just...

Dating, Identity, Parenting, Parenting Stories, Relationships

A Christian Tells How and Why She is Raising Jewish Children

By Judy Petsonk

There has not been much guidance available for the Christian who has decided to help raise children as Jews....

Books, Parenting

My Daughter Is Super Proud of Her Jewish Identity & It’s Amazing to Watch

By Lindsey Goldstein

The other day my daughter said to me, “Mommy, you’re not the most special person in this family.” It was a pointed...

Parenting, Parenting Stories, Religious Education, Young Kids

Hope For the Future

By Anne Goodman

By Sam Goodman We are sitting in the aftermath of a riveting, polarizing election. It has been all too easy...

Parenting, Parenting Stories

Things Toddlers Say At Services

By Emily Mace

With the drama of the High Holidays receding into the past, I find myself thinking about the charms and challenges...

Parenting, Parenting Stories, Synagogue, Young Kids

Couple holding hands

How to Pray with Two Faiths

By Anna Keller

Our family has had a hard few weeks. Every day we open the news to a different headline about hatred and anger....

Parenting, Parenting Stories, Religion, Spirituality

Back to Synagogue

By Jessie Boatright

Ruthie and one of our Temple buddies during a special visit this summer in Maine This past year was our first...

Parenting, Parenting Stories, Religious Education

Beyond the Bagel: A Vegan Shabbat Dinner

By Zoe Crum

My husband, Erik, and I recently attended “Love and Religion,” a workshop for interfaith couples who are exploring...

Parenting, Parenting Stories

Can Kids (or Anyone) Learn Prayer Through Osmosis?

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

Osmosis is a subtle or gradual absorption or mingling. Sometimes we joke that you can’t learn something...

Parenting, Synagogue

Why a Raisin Has Never Tasted So Good

By Rabbi Mychal Copeland

I always spend some time as Rabbi in Residence at Camp Tawonga in California each summer, and it is always...

Camp, Parenting, Religion, Spirituality

Listening to Christian Spirituals at the Jewish Cemetery

By Jessie Boatright

On my mom’s birthday last week, I left the house to go to the cemetery first thing. Being there, walking in...

Death & Mourning, Death & Mourning Stories, Mourning, Parenting

Key Ingredients for a Lasting Interfaith Marriage

By Elizabeth Vocke

When my husband and I first started dating I was what you might call a serial monogamist—I had a string of...

Marriage, Marriage Tips, Parenting, Religion

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