PAST ISSUES BY YEAR - 2005

Issue 150: Jewish-Asian Relationships and Adoptions from Asia

My Personal Story

• Intermarriage Can and Does Work 
  By Nadine Soo-Hoo Levy
• A Conversation with Julia Schulman, Mother of Two Daughters Adopted from China
  By Charlotte Honigman Smith
• Kreplach and Wontons: Asian-American Havurah Helps Blend Two Cultures, Traditions
  By Leisah Namm
• For Those Who "Don't Look Jewish," the Search for Acceptance Is No Joke
  By Frances Ginsberg

Column

• Home Treif Home
  By Andi Rosenthal

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Meet the Fockers: A Review
  By Ronnie Friedland
• Oakland Optometrist Pens Jewish Primer for Non-Jews
  By Dan Pine

Dialogue and Debate

• Everything We Know about What Jews Look Like Is Wrong
  By Karen Kushner

News

• "Cutting Edge" Think Tank on Intermarriage
  By Frances Kraft

Issue 151: What's In A Name?

My Personal Story

• Whose Daughter
  By Charlotte Green Honigman-Smith
• What's In A Name? 
  By Edmund Case
• Honoring My Mother 
  By Andi Rosenthal
• From Distance to Closeness: An Interfaith Family's Journey
  By Diane R. Zankowsky

Dialogue and Debate

• Intermarriage is Good for the Jews
  By Karen Kushner
• Is Outreach a Dead End? 
  By Micah Sachs
• A Response to "Is Outreach a Dead End?"
  By Helen Sabo

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Comic's Daughter Rain Pryor Takes "Fried Chicken & Latkes" to JCCs 
  By Dan Pine

Issue 152: Problem Interfaith Situations and Responses by a Therapist

Personal Stories and a Therapist's Response

• Seeking Acceptance
  By Edward Ableser
• A Response to "Seeking Acceptance" by Edward Ableser
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer
• Choosing Christianity
  By Tara Remick
• A Response to "Choosing Christianity" by Tara Remick
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer

Column

• Night and Fog
  By Andi Rosenthal

Dialogue and Debate

• Appreciating Intermarried Families in Our Synagogues 
  By Karen Kushner

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Lovers of Israel: A Review of A Place in the Tent: Intermarriage and Conservative Judaism
  By Rabbi Carl Perkins and Elana Kling Perkins
• Meet the Man Who Gave Audiences The Fockers
  By Max Gross

News

• Family Has Faith that Religious Diversity in the Home Will Work
  By Jill McDonnell

Issue 153: Young Adults Raised in Interfaith Families Talk

My Personal Story

• Choosing Judaism and Wanting to Pass It Down
  By Johanna Karasik
• My Journey to Judaism with Interfaith Roots
  By Marissa Rose Green
• How My Italian-American Mother Strengthened My Jewish Identity: Lessons in Intermarriage
  By Eric Lesser
• Does Half Count?
  By Jason Bortnick

Reviews, Interviews and Profiles

• Scenes of the Maturation of a Child and Her Parents: A Review of Anya in and out of Focus
  By Ronnie Friedland

Dialogue and Debate

• Our Children Are Our Hope and Our Life and Non-Jews Are Raising Our Children Well
  By Karen Kushner

News

• Dean Faces Doubts on Israel
  By Matthew E. Berger

Issue 154: Young Adults Raised in Interfaith Families Talk, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Dual Legacies: Growing Up Jewish in an Interfaith Family
  By Samie Facciolo
• Embracing Judaism in Spite of My Interfaith Self 
  By Dara Suchke
• The Price of Intermarriage?
  By Sarah Heilbronner
• Passing Down Identity
  By Achat Mishelanu

Column

• Welcoming the Sabbath
  By Andi Rosenthal

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Kyra's Caring Characters: A Conversation with Kyra Sedgwick 
  By Michael Elkin
• Israeli-Born Natalie Portman Stars in Low-Budget, Thoughtful Israeli Movie 
  By Dan Baron

Holidays

• Recipes for a Purim Celebration 
  By Joni Schockett

Issue 155: Passover and Easter

Featured Articles

• A Passover "Play": A Primer for Creating a Meaningful Seder
  By Rabbi Arthur P. Nemitoff
• A Kiwi on the Seder Plate
  By Jim Keen

Star Crossed: Jewish Stories from an Interfaith Life

• The Sunday Seder
  By Andi Rosenthal

Arts and Entertainment

• A Powerful Fictional Evocation of Growing Up Half-Jewish in Germany
  By Cheryl Coon

News

• Rabbi With A Pedigree: Reconstructionist Rabbinic Student is a Direct Descendant of FDR
  By Gabrielle Birkner

Issue 156: Passover and Easter, Part 2

Featured Articles

• The Passover Invitation: An Inclusive Approach to Passover
  By Rabbi Julie Greenberg
• Ay Vey! A Kosher-for-Passover Easter... with Recipes
  By Teresita Levy

Recipes

• Bubbe's Updated Passover Cooking
  By Linda Morel

More Personal Stories

• Faces at the Table: A Story of Healing and Renewal
  By Melissa Feldman

Arts and Entertainment

• Crossing Time, Cultures and Consciousness: A Review of When She Sleeps
  By Marlena Thompson

News

• Liberal Polish Jews Find a Home
  By Carolyn Slutsky

Issue 157: Engaging in Jewish Life

Featured Articles

• From Before Birth... Growing the Jewish Identity
  By Steven Michalove
• When Judaism Isn't Kosher
  By David Weintraub

More Personal Stories

• Jewish and A Little Bit Christmas
  By Joanne Catz Hartman
• It's About Feeling
  By Joyce MacGregor

Arts and Entertainment

• Fourth in a Series on Books for Christians about Judaism: Review of A Christian's Guide to Judaism
  By Cheryl F. Coon

News From Rome

• Jews Welcome Choice of Pope, and Hope That He Builds on John Paul's Legacy
  By Chanan Tigay and Rachel Pomerance
• Pittsburgh Rabbi Met with Future Pope; Jacob Calls Ratzinger Election "Welcomed News"
  By Susan Jacobs
• Former D.C. Man Owes Much to Pope 
  By Debra Rubin

News

• Kosher Gospel Rocks the House at Seder Celebrating Jewish Diversity
  By Chanan Tigay
• Who's “Modern”? It's Academic: A Conference Offers a New Definition for a Movement of “Centrists”
  By Larry Yudelson

Issue 158: Engaging in Jewish Life, Part 2

Featured Articles

• Meet the Rockefeller-Growalds
  By Rachel Pomerance
• Judaism a La Carte
  By Cara Nissman

More Personal Stories

• Connecting with Judaism Because of My Secular Spouse
  By Gina Hagler
• One of Us
  By Sue Repko

Arts and Entertainment

• Could It Happen Here? A Review of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
  By Cheryl F. Coon

News

• Non-Jewish Mothers of Jewish Children Face Some Hard Choices
  By Sue Fishkoff
• Innovative Program Offers Support to Non-Jewish Moms with Jewish Kids
  By Sue Fishkoff
• Courage and Innovation: And at 80, Rabbi Harold Schulweis Plans to Keep Going
  By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
• High Court in Israel Accepts Some Non-Orthodox Conversions
  By Dan Baron

Dialogue and Debate

• Finding Faith in Intermarriage
  By Beth Lugo

Issue 159: Death and Mourning

Featured Articles

• Fitting Tribute: An Interfaith Funeral
  By Cantor Ron Li-Paz
• Defining Jewish Moments
  By Steven Michalove

More Personal Stories

• Nuances of Intermarriage Endure Beyond Death
  By Marlena Thompson
• Differences?
  By Paulette Mann

More Professional Views

• Interfaith Mourning and Funerals, One Rabbi's Perspective
  By Rabbi Lev Baesh

Arts and Entertainment

• A Review of Children's Books about God
  By Cheryl F. Coon
• Modigliani Examines the Jewish Painter's Tempestuous Life and Death
  By Tom Tugend

News

• Survey: Children of Intermarriage Identify as Jews Some of the Time
  By Sue Fishkoff
• Rabbis Grapple to Liberalize Conservative Approach to Intermarriage
  By Joe Eskenazi
• Conversion in Israel: New Developments
  From The Jerusalem Report

Issue 160: Interfaith Weddings, Part 1

Featured Articles

• Mixed Background Times Three 
  By Marc Tyler Nobleman
• A Wedding Filled with Keva and Kavanna
  By Rabbi Lev Baesh

Another Professional View

• Prenuptial Agreement for Interfaith Couples
  By Rabbi Richard Schachet

Arts and Entertainment

• "I Do"-It-Yourself: A Review of The Creative Jewish Wedding Book
  By Lauren Stefano

The Jewish Holiday of Shavuot

• Orpah: A Shout-Out for Shavuot
  By Andi Rosenthal

• Delicious Recipes to Enhance Your Shavuot Celebration
  By Linda Morel

News

• Interfaith Program Facing Elimination
  By Jennifer Siegel
• How to Reach Unaffiliated Jews?
  By Sue Fishkoff
• Rabbi Takes an Inventive Approach to Intermarriage
  By Judie Jacobson

Issue 161: Interfaith Weddings, Part 2

Featured Articles

• A Wedding Ceremony of Our Own
  By Marina Williams
• The Wedding: A Mixed Blessing
  By Sarah Callahan

Professional View

• Counseling Interfaith Couples Before the Wedding
  By Cantor Ron Li-Paz
• Addressing Marital Problems Early
  By Michael Jackman

Important Outreach News

• Summer Camps Go for Diversity
  By Chanan Tigay
• Hillel Reaches Out to Interfaith Students
  By Sue Fishkoff
• Rabbi and Wife Connect with the Unaffiliated
  By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Arts and Entertainment

• Jews in a Mexican Soap
  By Boris Fishman
• The Real Max Baer Versus His Depiction in Cinderella Man
  By Tom Tugend

Issue 162: Interfaith Weddings, Part 3:Officiation

Featured Articles

• Why I Don't Perform Interfaith Weddings
  By Rabbi Steven Foster
• Performing Interfaith Weddings: An Opportunity
  By Rabbi Bruce Kadden

More Professional Views

• Blessing Mixed-Faith Couples in the United Kingdom
  By Rabbi Aaron Goldstein
• Why I Changed My Mind
  By Rabbi Arthur P. Nemitoff
• Interfaith Weddings I Am Happy To Perform, and Why
  By Rabbi David Regenspan
• Co-Officiating at Interfaith Weddings
  By Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn and Michael Boekstal
• Israelis Marry outside the Rabbinate
  By Michele Chabin

Arts and Entertainment

• A Popular Intermarried French Comic-Book Writer
  By Lauren Elkin  

News

• Budget Recommendations Would Replace Pathways Program for Intermarrieds
  By Robert Wiener
• Temple Israel OKs Interfaith Weddings in Its Building
  By Marshall Weiss

Issue 163: birthright israel

Featured Articles

• Defining Birthright : Finding Personal Meaning
  By Inna Livitz
• Integrating My Identity in Israel
  By Eric Lesser

More birthright israel Experiences

• A "Half-Jew" in Israel
  By Sarah Heilbronner
• Ruminations from a Jewish Journey
  By Sarah Bassin

Important New Survey

• Bay Area the 3rd Most Jewish in U.S.
  By Joe Eskenazi

Interfaith Families and the Conservative Movement

• Questions of Gays, Interfaith Couples Roil Conservatives
  By Jennifer Siegel
• Taking JTS Reins No Easy Task
  By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Star/Crossed: Jewish Stories from an Interfaith Life

• A Joyful Noise
  By Andi Rosenthal

Arts and Entertainment

• what do you believe?-- a Video That Helps Teens Clarify Their Religious Beliefs
  By Cheryl F. Coon

Issue 164: Interdating

Featured Articles

• Wading in the Dating Pool
  By Joelle Asaro Berman
• Who She Was
  By Samuel G. Freedman

More Interdating Articles

• The Ocean Between Us
  By Jake Miller
• Why I Choose Not to Interdate
  By Adina Giannelli

News and Opinion

• Gender History as a Key to Understanding Intermarriage
  By Keren R. McGinity

Interfaith Families and the Conservative Movement

• From "Exclusionary Indifference" to "Inclusionary Outreach"
  By Rabbi Carl M. Perkins and Elana Kling Perkins
• At Last, Supportive Spouses Are Welcomed in Conservative Synagogues
  By Ruth Nemzoff

Arts and Entertainment

• The Shepherd's Tale
  By Sandee Brawarsky

Humor

• Dry Bones Cartoon

Issue 165: Interdating 2

Featured Articles

• A Jew-by-Choice's Perspective on Her Teenage Daughter's Interdating
  By Paula Yablonsky
• I'm Jewish, but What Difference Does That Make about Whom I Date?By Sandra Anderson

More Interdating Articles

• Grown Up Love Is Complicated
  By Amy Elkes 
• A Choice
  By Rabbi Julie Greenberg

Star/Crossed: Jewish Stories from an Interfaith Life

• The Only Starfish
  By Andi Rosenthal  

News and Opinion

• Study of Interfaith Kids Upends Ideas of Identity
  By Jennifer Siegel
• Welcoming the New Jews
  A Forward Editorial

InterfaithFamily.com In the News

• New Guidebook Serves as a Road Map to Innovation in the Jewish Community
  By Rachel Pomerance
• No "Easy" Answer
  By E.B. Solomont  

Arts and Entertainment

• Interesting Times: Boy, What a Catch!
  By Saul Singer 
• Talking Peace: A Moving and Provocative Documentary
  By Cheryl F. Coon 
  

Issue 166: Interfaith Families and Jewish Day Schools

Featured Articles

• Learning, Living, Community: Interfaith Families Connect to Jewish Day Schools
  By Deborah Fineblum Raub
• Our Interfaith Reform Family Finds a Comfortable Place in a Jewish Day School
  By Michael Brent

More Day Schools Articles

• Serving the Jewish Interfaith Family in the Jewish Community Day School Setting
  By Marc Kramer 
• Choosing a Day School Education
  By Laura Bramly
• Is My Prom Date Kosher?
  By Gabrielle Birkner

News and Opinion

• A Different Approach to Interfaith Marriage
  By Rabbi Stephen Fuchs 
• Congregation Beth Israel Responds To Growing Incidence Of Jews Marrying Non-Jews
  By Frances Grandy Taylor 
• Students in the Czech Republic Learn about Holocaust by Making Films
  By Dinah A. Spritzer

Arts and Entertainment

• For Producer of Hit Show "The O.C.," Jewish Background Is Fertile Ground
  By Richard Asinof
• Judaism: One Religion with Many Flavors
  By Cheryl F. Coon

Issue 167: Interfaith Families and the Jewish High Holidays

Featured Articles

• Apples and Chocolate
  By Enid Weiss
• Fasting: How My Hunger for History Helped Me Reclaim My Judaism
  By Sue Eisenfeld
• My Holidays!
  By Gina Hagler

High Holiday Recipes

• Feliz Año Nuevo, Plus Recipes
  By Teresita Levy
• Not Your Traditional Rosh Hashanah Recipes
  By Linda Morel
• Recipes for a Yom Kippur Break-Fast Meal
  By Linda Morel

Columnists

• Dear Wendy: High Holiday Question
  By Wendy Palmer 
• Star/Crossed: Balancing the Book
  By Andi Rosenthal

Arts and Entertainment

• Drawing Inspiration from Biblical Women
  By Rabbi Jill Hammer
• Heights Taps into Jewish Neuroses
  By Michael Fox 

News and Opinion

• As Rural Congregations Get Smaller, They Make Do without Rabbis, Cantors
  By Sue Fishkoff
  

Issue 168: Interfaith Families and Jewish Day Schools, Part 2

Featured Articles

• Jewish Community Day Schools Welcome Interfaith Families
  By Dean Goldfein
• Why We, an Intermarried Couple, Chose a Jewish Day School for Our Son
  By Lauren Hollop
• Creating a Community of Learners
  By Jennifer Rudin-Sable

More on Day Schools

• Room for Everyone: One Jewish Day School in North Carolina Has Found Strength in Its High Rate of Interfaith Families
  By Margaret Banks

News and Opinion

• STILL JEWISH! What It Means Now to Be a Jewish Woman in an Interfaith Marriage
  By Jeri B. Zeder
• Different Takes on Intermarriage
  By Eve Coulson 
• Hebrew Is One Door I Can't Seem to Unlock
  By Joanne Catz Hartman
• Considering Religion: How Will You Raise Kids?
  By Lisa A. Goldstein 

Arts and Entertainment

• Our Date With Drew's Date
  By Amy Klein
• Why Writer-Director Gary David Goldberg Made Must Love Dogs
  By Naomi Pfefferman

Issue 169: Relationships with Extended Families

Featured Articles

• Hey, They Were Reading Your Book in Church Today!
  By Suzanne Koven
• How Religious Differences Came Between Us
  By Elyn Perzley

More Relationships with Extended Families Articles

• The German Son-in-Law
  By Joan Millman
• Dear Wendy: Daughter's Bat Mitzvah
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer

News and Opinion

• The Invisible Jews: 1 in 5 American Jews Not Ashkenazi
  By Joe Eskenazi
• No Longer "Until Death Do Us Part"
  By Bram Eisenthal

Arts and Entertainment

• Baxter Marries Intellect and Comedy on Screen
  By Michael Fox 
• A Conversation with Rob Schneider
  By Naomi Pfefferman
• Ben Feldman's Jewish Background Aids Acting Career
  By Eric Fingerhut

Holidays

• A Boyfriend's Tzimmes Spurs a Lifetime Love of Jewish Food
  By Linda Morel

Issue 170: Interfaith Families and Social Action

Featured Articles

• Why Social Justice Activities Attract Students from Interfaith Families
  By Brianne Kruger Nadeau
• Making the World a Better Place Unites Interfaith Couples and Communities
  By Rabbi Lev Baesh
• The Winds of Change through the Window of Interfaith Marriages
  By David Weintraub

Columnist

• "Star/Crossed: Jewish Stories from an Interfaith Life"--Justice, Justice Begins at Home
  By Andi Rosenthal

News and Opinion

• Identity, Ideals, and Institutions: How Jewish Organizations Can Find Hope in the Jewish Future
  By Sarah Bassin
• Jacob's Ladder Is the First Relief for Many Katrina Victims
  By Larry Brook
• Program Teaches Rabbinical Students How to Use Social Justice in Their Jobs
  By Sue Fishkoff

Arts and Entertainment

• Filmmaking and Identity
  By Sam Ball 
• War, Nazism Divide Resilient "Sisters"
  By Michael Fox 
• Novelist's Latest Book Reflects His Own Split, Conflicting Identities
  By David Lida  

Issue 171: How Social Action Can Unite Interfaith Families, Part 2

Featured Articles

• Activism as an Aphrodisiac
  By Sue Eisenfeld
• Working Together on a Social Justice Project Strengthened Our Marriage
  By Edie Mueller
• Social Action--Passed From One Generation to Another
  By Sandra Anderson  

News and Opinion on Social Action

• Tribal vs. Covenantal Jewish Identity
  By Sidney Schwarz
• Justice Program Builds on Teshuvah to Help Young Offenders Change Ways
  By Sue Fishkoff

Dialogue and Debate

• We Must Integrate Interfaith Families into Community
  By Rabbi Avis D. Miller
• Interfaith Families Need Exclusive Programs
  By Marion L. Usher

Other News

• English, French and Hebrew Spoken in French Shul
  By Lauren Elkin  

Arts and Entertainment

• In Prime Streep's Jewish Mother Frets over Her Son's Interfaith Dating
  By Amy Klein
• Uma, Non-Jewish Goddess in Prime
  By Amy Klein

Issue 172: Grandparenting

Featured Articles

• Jacob's Family and Ours
  By Paula Lee Hellman
• Learning to Forgive Myself
  By Marlene Beach

More Grandparenting Articles

• Expanded Line
  By Paulette Mann
• Grandparents as Spiritual Guides for the Family
  By Janet Strassman Perlmutter
• Sharing Your Faith with Grandchildren
  By Janet Strassman Perlmutter 
• Dear Wendy: Christmas or Hanukkah Gifts?
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer

Arts and Entertainment

• Rashevski's Tango Explores What Makes Someone Jewish
  By Cheryl F. Coon 
• Bee Season Stung by Miscasting
  By Michael Fox 
• Book Shines Light on the Private Life of Jewish Stars
  By Alexandra J. Wall  

News and Opinion

• Jews Looking Outside Synagogues for New Rituals and Life-Cycle Events
  By Sue Fishkoff 

Issue 173: The "Chrismukkah" Issue

Featured Articles

• Wax and Tinsel
  By Joelle Asaro Berman
• A Decorated December
  By Samantha Facciolo
• It May Seem Grinchlike, but…
  By Adina Giannelli

The Chrismukkah Debate

• Imagine… It's Chrismukkah Time Again!
  By Ron Gompertz
• I Still Say "Chrismukkah" is a Bad Idea
  By Edmund Case
• A Recipe for Kris Kringle Kugel? Chrismukkah Time is Here Again
  By Jane Ulman

Star/Crossed: Jewish Stories from an Interfaith Life

• Etz Chayim, the Tree of Life
  By Andi Rosenthal

Hanukkah

• For Jewish Cookbook Author, Chanukah's about the Art of Frying
  By Linda Morel 
• Haul out the Hanukkah Books: It's That Time of Year!
  By Cheryl F. Coon

News about the Reform Movement's Biennial

• At Reform Conference, Movement Calls for a Push Toward Conversion
  By Sue Fishkoff
• Rabbi Urges Conversion, Sexual Limits
  By Jennifer Siegel 

Arts and Entertainment

• Offensively Funny
  By Naomi Pfefferman

Issue 174: The December Holidays

Featured Articles

• December Holidays in Our Blended, Interfaith Family
  By Paula Hellman
• Choosing Judaism, Missing Christmas
  By Laura Bramly
• Our Multicultural, Interfaith Holiday Season
  By Ava Yelizaveta Shapochnik-Sanchez

More December Holidays Articles

• Jews and Jello
  By Shana Franklin
• Raising Consciousness about Interfaith Issues within One Jewish Organization
  By Rebecca Rolnick
• Interfaith Hanukkah
  By Diane Barth

Columnist

• Dear Wendy: Why Do I Have to Be Jewish?
  By Wendy Weltman Palmer

News and Opinion

• New Conservative Initiative Reaches Out to the Intermarried
  By Sue Fishkoff 
• Study Assesses Outreach Efforts in Atlanta, Says Follow-Up Needed
  By Sue Fishkoff

Arts and Entertainment

• Jewtopia: A Review
  By Esther D. Kustanowitz