On the eve of the New Year, here are a few sermon ideas to make your community more cohesive and inclusive, not less.
On December 13th, The Forward posted the incoherently titled, “Jews With Asian Heritage Pose Growing Identity Challenge to Jewish Establishment,” as an apparent attempt to
Meet Adam, an intermarried Hungarian Jew. An excerpt from young author Alyssa Petersel’s new book profiling the definition-defying identities of Jews in Hungary.
The Reconstructionist community has sent the message that I’m accepted and wanted.
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College revoked their ban on students with non-Jewish or intermarried partners.
Rabbi Jeremy Kalmonofsky says he opposes interfaith marriages. But here’s how that sounds to us intermarried Jews.
I picked up Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America because I’m in an interfaith relationship, and reading it gave me something
I’m going to try something a bit new here and take a close look at the data analyses from a single study. I chose this particular study, The Impact and Lessons of Taglit‐Birthright Israel by Saxe et al, because someone asked my opinion about it and I thought it did some things very well. I think the data supports some interesting findings, although it includes some all-to-common misinterpretations of statistical results.
Sure enough, barely 48 hours after the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others, the Jewish media picked up on her Jewish roots. Now,
The following is a guest post by treyfe. He is a stay-at-home father and observant, atheist Jew who is trying to be a good ally,