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Relationships

I’m Catholic and She’s Jewish Yet I’m Optimistic About Our Future

By Joseph Smith

Within a month of my first date with Sarah, she invited me to attend her family’s seder (ritual Passover...

Jewish Catholic Relationships, Relationships

We Have Similar Personalities, Passions and Beliefs, but Different Religions

By Sarah Smith

Jon and I met last spring at a voter registration drive in Harlem. As we worked that day we began to chat, and...

Relationships

Sikh and Jew: East Meets West

By Daniel Koch

A new marriage trend has emerged in the last few years: some Jews are marrying not only outside of Judaism,...

Jewish Muslim Relationships, Relationships, Weddings

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Why Do Jews Marry Catholics?

By Karen Goldberg Goff

A recent landmark study of Americans’ religious behavior confirmed what many observers of interfaith marriage...

Marriage, Relationships

Cultural Differences and Value Similarities: How We Deal with It All

By Judi Brooks

First the most obvious differences: he’s black, I’m white; he grew up in the South (Miami, Fla.,),...

Relationships

The Wrong Lessons

By Alina Adams

In the 1987 classic fractured fairy tale, The Princess Bride, as the dwarf genius, Vizzini (Wallace Shawn),...

Pop Culture, Relationships

couple holding hands

Why Choosing Love Didn’t Mean Conversion for Me

By Emily Mace

Although I am the half that’s not Jewish in an interfaith marriage, my husband never put conversion on...

Conversion, Relationship Challenges, Relationships

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

Managing a Mixed Marriage of Red Sox and Yankee Fans

By Shelly Schweizer

A few years ago, my family traveled to Washington for a short vacation. One of my dearest friends, Patty, who...

Relationships

The Perfect Recipe

By Heather Subba

My husband and I fell in love in the spring of 2004. We were taking quick cover from an outburst of afternoon...

Relationships

What I Learned From My Son’s Hindu-Jewish Relationship

By Stephen Fisher

This is the story of how a Jewish couple added to and became part of our changing America. But more important,...

Family, Hindu Jewish Wedding, Love, Parenting Stories, Relationships

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Easing Into My First High Holy Days

By Anne Goodman

Two years ago, I joined Sam for High Holy Day Services for the first time. In preparation, he tried explaining...

High Holy Days, Relationships, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

hearts

We Chose Love with a Full Moon Ritual

By Kelly Banker

The moon has recently become new, and therefore our Jewish calendar has just transitioned to the month of Av,...

Dating, Love, Other Holidays Rituals, Relationships

Advice from the Other Side: How We Planned Our Jewish, Catholic & Spanish Wedding

By Sarah Martinez Roth

How We Met Growing up Catholic, I knew I wanted to marry a man of faith; however, when I met Jonathan, I...

Jewish and Weddings, Jewish Catholic Relationships, Relationships, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Planning, Wedding Recap, Wedding Stories, Weddings

Kelly and Courtney

Our Most Important Difference

By Kelly Banker

I had been living at Moishe Kavod House (a home-based Jewish community for young adults) for about a month...

Dating, Identity, Multiracial, Race, Relationship Challenges, Relationships, Religion

Judaism Without Walls

By Jared David Berezin

Jared and his (now) wife Laurie being married by Rabbi Lev Baesh on Laurie’s parents’ farm in Pennsylvania Why...

Dating, Identity, Relationships, Religion, Synagogue

Why I Waited for Interfaith Love

By Brianne Nadeau

It took me 20 years to find the love of my life. If you told me 10 years ago, or even 15 years ago that I’d...

Dating, Growing Up Interfaith, Identity, Love, Relationships, Religion

Blending Holiday Decorations and a New Life Together

By Alexandra Scanlon

Alexandra & Paul at a family holiday party shortly after they got engaged In a million years, I never would...

Relationships, Wedding Stories

But You’re Not Really Jewish, Right?

By Anna Keller

“But you’re not really Jewish right?” This has been a question I have been asked since I was big enough to...

Babies, God, Identity, Parenting, Parenting Stories, Relationships, Religion

The Mikveh Is Better Together

By Kelly Banker

As a young Jew raised in a secular home, I never imagined that being in a committed relationship with someone...

Dating, Mikveh, Relationships, Spirituality

My Wife Eats Cereal in The Garage

By Rabbi Mychal Copeland

We have been through 20 Passovers together. My wife does pretty well with the eating restrictions but somewhere...

Marriage, Parenting, Parenting Passover, Passover, Relationships

Should Birthdays Be Jewish?

By Amy Beth Starr

Springtime in my house rarely means flowers and warmer weather – after all, we do live in Maine and snow is...

Divorce, Parenting Shabbat, Parenting Stories, Relationships, Young Kids

Choosing to Celebrate Love on Easter Sunday

By Jessie Boatright

Ruthie’s Purim grogger nestling in with her Easter eggs When we were studying Judaism together as a young...

Easter, Relationships

My Catholic Boyfriend Moves In

By Amy Beth Starr

The day Matt met Amy’s kids In post-divorce life, it occurred to me that it had been over 13 years since...

Dating, Divorce, Relationships

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