Professional Development

Advocacy, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Professional Development

If you’re anything like me, the news that the Jews of Color Initiative commissioned a landmark study exploring...

How to Make Your Website Interfaith Family-Friendly

Your website is the welcome mat for your community. It is often the first glimpse of your organization that...

The Missing 2020 Pew Study Headlines

Advocacy, News, Professional Development

Imagine if we read the data differently… The Pew Research Center’s new study, “Jewish Americans in 2020,”...

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Engaging Interfaith Families for the High Holy Days: A Checklist for an Inclusive Synagogue Experience

Professional Development, Professionals, Resources

This is the perfect inclusive synagogue checklist to read through for the High Holy Days. The High Holy...

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Conference Speakers

By 18Doors

18Doors’ network of educators are available for your next conference. Contact our Professional Development...

Clergy, Professional Development

Interfaith Inclusive Language: A Glossary and Discussion Guide

By 18Doors

This glossary is designed to spark conversation in your organization about interfaith inclusive language. There...

Clergy, Digital Learning, Professional Development, Training

What Does Pro-Choice Have to Do with Interfaith Marriage?

By Stacie Garnett-Cook

I worked in the pro-choice movement for eight years before coming to 18Doors. When I started working here, I...

Advocacy, Professional Development

Michael Chabon Didn’t Go Too Far

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission. Noted author Michael...

Advocacy, News, Professional Development

Resolutions Your Synagogue Can Make This Rosh Hashanah

Clergy, Professional Development, Synagogue

Just like the approach of the secular new year, the approach of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, is...

How Audacious Will Our Hospitality to Interfaith Families Be?

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared eJewishPhilanthropy and also appears on www.edumundcase.com and is...

Identity, LGBTQ, Professional Development, Professionals Stories

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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...

Let’s Stop Using the Word “Problem” When Talking About Interfaith Marriage

Recently I read two thought-provoking articles in the Jewish press: Rabbi Elliot Cosgove’s article in the New...

The Conversations We Should be Having

By Rabbi Richard Address

…with Grandparents with Grandchildren of Interfaith Marriages In my travels to congregations and Jewish organizations...

Change Afoot in the More “Conservative” Communities

By Edmund Case

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission It’s been quiet...

The Tree Strikes a Chord Like No Other

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

Recently, my colleague in Los Angles posted a question that piqued my interest on her personal Facebook page:...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Identity, Professional Development, Professionals Stories, Religion

Why We Should Come Out as Interfaith Professionals on College Campuses

By Rabbi Mychal Copeland

Last month, I sat with 25 people who gathered over breakfast to talk about being part of interfaith families....

Identity, Professional Development, Professionals Stories

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Start by Dropping the ‘Non-Jew’

By Lindsey Silken

This article was cross-posted on HuffingtonPost.com. As the editorial director at an organization that works...

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It’s Time to Stop Encouraging In-marriage

By Stacie Garnett-Cook

There are many in the Jewish community, including Steven M. Cohen in his recent response in The Forward’s Seesaw...

Three Terms I Hope Not to Hear in the New Year

Advocacy, News, Professional Development

As the new year approaches, I’ve been thinking back over the past year—particularly about certain terms I’ve...

Advocacy, Clergy, Identity, Professional Development, Religion

Five Observations

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

Below are five observations from working with interfaith families that may get our hearts racing and hopefully...

Clergy, Culture, Identity, Professional Development, Religion

An Inclusive Holiday Wish

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

My Facebook feed tends to get filled with rabbis and other Jewish professionals’ lives. This is the circle I...

Sukkot Reminds Us to Treat All Visitors as Honored Guests

By Rabbi Mychal Copeland

This blog post was reprinted with permission from j., the Jewish news weekly of Northern California. I...

Advocacy, Impact, Other Holidays, Professional Development

How Does Your Synagogue Handle Candle Lighting with Interfaith Families?

By 18Doors

Our staff around the country worked together on this project to gather information about the ritual policies...

Policy, Professional Development

Converts Not Necessarily Wanted – An Open Letter to Arnold Eisen

Chancellor Eisen, I just read your article in the Wall Street Journal, Wanted: Converts to Judaism, in which...