5 Conversation Starters for Couples Before the High Holy Days
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, gives us an opportunity to reflect on the past year and look forward to...
The Funniest Jewish-Palestinian Lesbian Couple You’ll Ever Meet
The saying “opposites attract” has never been truer for Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini. One’s a Jew from...
How Gift Giving Has Changed Since Marriage
The weather is quickly changing! That means it’s time to think about “the holiday season” for 2018. Last...
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...
7 Ways to Celebrate Tu B’Av, the Jewish Day of Love
Editor’s note: This year is different, and some of these activities are more accessible right now than...
Love, Other Holidays, Other Holidays Rituals, Relationships, Tu B'Av
Mom and Dad: We’re in Love and We’re Not Teenagers
Elizabeth’s parents on her wedding day
There’s a memory that stands out. I’m standing in the kitchen of...
How My Interfaith Marriage Improves My Own Catholic Faith
This Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent. Lent is a season of repentance in preparing...
Grandparents, Hindu Jewish Wedding, Relationships, Religion, Yom Kippur
How Two Faiths Collide
Once, I was afraid I wouldn’t ever have a boyfriend. I was almost 12, kicked out of Yeshiva, transferred to...
Divorce and Kids: When You Do What You Do–and Not What You Say
490
December, 2001
“You’re hypocrites,” Rachel, my then 19-year-old daughter in her first...
The C Word
It’s the conversation topic almost every interfaith couple dreads (that is, if one of the members is Christian)....
The State of My (Interfaith) Union
October 7, 2013
Signing our interfaith ketubah
A few weeks ago, my family was honored at our synagogue....
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
Swipe Right for True Love
OK, I’ll come clean: I wasn’t expecting to meet my wife on Tinder.
I’m not some app-phobic, anti-technology...
Dating, Love, Relationships, Religion, Wedding Stories, Weddings
Making Time to Reflect Before the Big Day
We’re counting down the days—less than one month until the wedding! Plenty of friends and family have been...
Why I Am a Unitarian
884
August, 2002
It is a sunny spring Sunday in Sacramento. As has been our custom for the last twelve...
Can It Be Done? New Book Shows How Intermarriage Can Work
162
August, 2006
Review of Inside Intermarriage by Jim Keen (URJ Press, New York, 2001).
According to its...
I’m Jewish, but What Difference Does That Make about Whom I Date?
132
August, 2005
Forty years later, I can remember my father telling me, “No, you can’t go...
Marrying Off a Daughter as a Values Clarification Exercise
Marrying off a daughter is a values clarification exercise. While the wedding ceremony ostensibly serves to...
My Daughter is Bringing Home a Boyfriend who is not Jewish for Rosh Hashanah
Q: Recently, our twenty year old daughter called from college to announce that she is bringing home her first...
Broken Line
385
July, 2004
We are blessed with a loving relationship with our two sons. When our younger son met the...
More Shifting Ground
This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission.
It’s been busy the past...
Insider Tips from a Master Wedding Planner
You are now engaged! NOW WHAT?
Here are five things to consider before jumping in, from a Master Wedding Planner:
1....
Books, Christian Jewish Wedding, Engagement, Relationships, Weddings
Introducing the Parents
920
June, 2001
The meeting of our parents always seemed to be a far-off event. Ed’s parents had decided...
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