December Holidays Conversation Starters
The December holidays bring up more questions and tension for many couples than any other time of year. Because...
Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Relationship Challenges
How to Talk About Christmas Trees in an Interfaith Relationship
Tree or no tree? Little tree or big? Only at the grandparents’, or at home, too? More than perhaps any other...
Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Relationship Challenges
Getting Married Without My Parents’ Blessing
All I heard growing up was: “You’re going to marry a nice, Jewish doctor when you’re older.” And I honestly...
Relationship Challenges, Relationships, Wedding Stories, Weddings
Our Hanukkah Fight Wasn’t Really About What We Teach Our Kids
I took a seat at my computer while the girls were doing crafts in the kitchen and the baby was toddling around...
Hanukkah, Parenting, Parenting Hanukkah, Relationship Challenges, Relationships
How I Got into a Long-Distance Interfaith Relationship…After I Became Jewish
Elle and James at the Trinity College Dublin library during her first visit to Ireland
In a lot of ways, I never...
How I Knew He was Husband Material
Zach and his great aunt Thelma
When did I know Zach was husband material? It dawned on me during a trip to New...
Should Our New Home Have a Cross or a Mezuzah (or Both)?
Laura hanging the crucifix
Zach and I just moved into a new, smaller apartment at the end of April. Our last...
Why Choosing Love Didn’t Mean Conversion for Me
Although I am the half that’s not Jewish in an interfaith marriage, my husband never put conversion on...
The Mindful Bride
Jose and I have recently incorporated a new practice into our lives to help prepare for our marriage. We have...
Relationship Challenges, Relationships, Religion, Wedding Stories, Weddings
Why I #ChooseLove: In Sickness & In Health
I’ve been absent from the IFF blog for the past month or so, dealing with some health issues that kept me a...
Love, Relationship Challenges, Relationships, Wedding Stories, Weddings
Navigating the Narrow Places: Interfaith Arguments
When Shannon and I fight, I assume the worst. We’re going to break up. We’ll never speak again. We’ll be torn...
Conversion, Relationship Challenges, Relationships, Wedding Stories
Video 12: working on the marriage not just the wedding
It’s been awhile since we last vlogged and there’s good reason for it. Yes, Arel and I are now officially...
Marriage Tips, Relationship Challenges, Wedding Stories, Weddings
Taking the Plunge
1283June 30, 2010
I always knew I wanted to have a Jewish family. My family had been profoundly ambivalent...
Faces at the Table: A Story of Healing and Renewal
241My childhood images of Passover are made up of colorful memories. They are images of helping Grandma...
Passover, Passover Rituals, Relationship Challenges, Relationships
When a Seder Meets Good Friday: Challenges During the Easter and Passover Holidays
814The Holiday Dinner
Jeff and Jenny planned to spend Passover with Jeff’s Jewish parents. They...
Easter, Food, Jewish Holidays, Other Holidays, Other Holidays Rituals, Passover, Passover Rituals, Relationship Challenges, Relationships, Seder
Southern Comfort
21They had me at ham.
As my first Christmas with my fiance’s Italian Catholic family approached,...
Food, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Hanukkah Rituals, Relationship Challenges, Relationships
If You Love Each Other Enough … Marriage Is Still Not Easy!
201This article is reprinted with permission of JTA and may not be reproduced without its permission....
Can You Call It Interdating When Your Partner is Agnostic?
1193Originally published March 23, 2009. Republished March 17, 2011.
Dear InterfaithFamily.com Readers,
I...
Relationship Challenges, Relationships, Shabbat, Shabbat Rituals
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