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How I Teach My Kids That Being Jewish is Awesome and Awe-Filled
Last year, my pre-school-aged daughter was acutely aware that her friends and their families would be celebrating Christmas and that she wasn’t going to be a part of it.
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Honoring My Christian Family
It can be difficult to tell your parents that the man or woman you have fallen in love with and want to marry is of a different religious faith..
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Blessings Beyond Borders: An Interfaith Tale
Last Saturday evening I was given an opportunity to be part of a truly wonderful celebration - the Sweet 16 party of a very special young woman. As I explained
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No, I Did Not Convert Because My Husband is Jewish!
Out of all the Jews I know personally who converted or are in the process of doing so, I don't think any converted only because they were engaged to someone Jewish.
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A Familiar Conversation with a Family Twist
December 5, 2018
It's a conversation I had had hundreds of times in my 44 years as a Jewish educator. However, this time was different: It was with my son.
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A Hanukkah Tradition From My Christian Mother-in-Law
December 18, 2017
Sometimes we create our own traditions, sometimes we carry on a tradition we inherit, and sometimes a tradition can come from unexpected places.
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Jewish and Asian: A Closer Look at This Vibrant and Growing Demographic
August 10, 2016
In their new book JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America’s Newest Jews, scholarly husband/wife team Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt examine the intersection of race, religion, and ethnicity in the increasing number of households that are both Jewish American and Asian American (like theirs is).
Related Answers to Jewish Questions
- Can a child who was circumcised in the hospital but has not had an actual bris be considered a Jew?
- I'm Jewish and my wife isn't. Every year, we go to my in-laws to celebrate Christmas with them. Will it be too confusing to my daughter?
- In Judaism what is believed to happen to someone after they die? Is there some idea of an afterlife, or is that purely a Christian concept?
- If a Jewish man marries a woman brought up in a different faith, and they have a child, would the Reform Jewish community consider their child to be Jewish?
- Is it the policy that men must be circumcised prior to conversion? My 8-year old son wasn't circumcised.
- Is it possible to have a child christened and go through a bris/baby naming?
- Can a child who was circumcised in the hospital but has not had an actual bris be considered a Jew?