Interfaith Family

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?

Rabbi Leora Kaye

There are many opportunities to share in the beauty of different faith traditions that may exist within one family. There is no reason why sharing your in-laws traditions would end up being confusing to your daughter.

I have a Jewish mother and a Christian father. What am I?

Rabbi Peter J. Haas

As you may know from watching the news, the issue of who is a Jew is a hotly debated one nowadays. There is no simple answer.

Interfaith Family

Ritual Objects

Finance Free Friday Nights: How Shabbat Can Help Ease Weekday Anxiety

Virginia Avniel Spatz

Cary O’Brien

August 14, 2012

A checkbook and a papier-maché cup are central to our family’s Shabbat. These ritual items – as important to us as candles or kiddush cup – play an essential role in the “shutting off” that welcomes the sabbath to our house.

Hand lighting a full menorah of colorful Hanukkah candles

Interfaith Family

From Gelt to Gimmel: A Personal Hanukkah Journey

Barry Shainker

November 29, 2011

I now proudly define myself not as an assimilated Jew, but as a modern and engaged Jew who is committed to Jewish life and practice while still living a life in the secular world.