PAST ISSUES BY YEAR - 2002

Issue 77: Talking about God in Interfaith Families

My Personal Story

• When My Jewish Child Asks Me about God: A Christian Parent's Perspective
  By Jim Keen

Professional View

• How To Talk to Your Kids about God: A Jewish Approach
  By Rabbi David Wolpe
• The God Beyond God: One Minister's Concept of the Divine
  By Rev. Yvonne V. Schaudt

News

• For Many, the "December Dilemma" Loses Its Sting
  By Lisa Keys

IFF In The News

• The Search for Common Ground
  By Elizabeth Lund

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Wedding Preparation from a Different Angle
  By Rabbi Neil Kominsky

Issue 78: Talking about God in Interfaith Families, Part 2

My Personal Story

• God and Jesus in an Extended Interfaith Family
  By Paula Lee Hellman
• This Judeo-Christian Thing
  By Edie Aaronoqitz Mueller

Professional View

• Talking about Your Religious Beliefs: Advice to Interfaith Couples
  By Rabbi Elias Lieberman

Column

• Dear Dr. Paula
  By Dr. Paula Brody
• Dispatch from the Institute
  From the Jewish Outreach Institute

Dialogue and Debate

• Should Discussions about God Be Part of Premarital Counseling for Intermarrying Couples?
  By Marlena Thompson

News

• Multiracial Celebration Paints Judaism in Many Colors
  By Alexandra Wall

IFF In The News

• Guide Offers Stories about Coping with Differences
  By Cynthia Ramsay

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Conservative Movement Reaches Out: Review of "Building the Faith"
  By Rose Levinson

Issue 79: Passover and Easter

My Personal Story

• Interfaith Seder
  By Lyssa Friedman
• Four Modern Questions for Passover
  By Zell Schulman
• Writing Our Own Hagaddah
  By Rachel Barenblat

Professional View

• Was the Last Supper a Passover Seder
  By Rabbi Elias Lieberman

Column

• Dispatch from the Institute
  From the Jewish Outreach Institute

News

• Interfaith Study Pinpoints Success
  By Deborah Fineblum Raub

IFF In The News

• New Organization to be Voice of Interfaith Families
  By Ami Eden

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• On the Shelf: Esther, Cinderella for Real
  By Judith Bolton-Fasman

Issue 80: Grandparenting, and Intermarriage News

My Personal Story

• On Learning That My Jewish Son Would Raise His Daughter Catholic
  By Nan Mayer

Professional View

• Being Great Grandparents to Children of Interfaith Couples
  By Karen Kushner

Expanded News Section

• Shul Affiliation Is Rising, but Jewish Population Declining
  By Julie Wiener
• Reform Says No to Ordaining Intermarrieds
  By Ami Eden
• Conservative Survey Shows Ramah Kids Have More Frum
  By Julie Wiener

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Irish Literary Figures Talk about Religion, Writing, and Intermarriage
  By Marlena Thompson

Issue 81: Grandparenting, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Jewish Grandma Tells All
  By Eleanor Jaffe
• Conversations with My Interfaith Grandchildren
  By Carolyn Lembeck

Dialogue and Debate

• Responding to the Intermarriage News
  By Edmund Case

News

• How Sarah Hughes Skated under the "Jewish Radar"
  By Ami Eden

Interfaith Family News in Israel

• Court Accepts Liberal Conversions
  By Jessica Steinberg
• A Marriage of Inconvenience
  By Joseph Algazy

Passover and Easter

• Seder Time Down South
  By Rachel Pomerance

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• "Big Bad" Debra Winger
  By Naomi Pfefferman
• Negoitating Faith
  By Gail Quets

Issue 82: Grandparenting, Part 3

My Personal Story

• Grandparents: The Hidden Link in Interfaith Marriages
  By Sam Osherson
• My Granddaughter's Baptism
  By Nan Meyer

Dispatches from the Institute

• Grandparenting Your Interfaith Jewish Grandkids 101
  From the Jewish Outreach Institute

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• The Rabbi and the Reverend: Intermarriage on TV's "7th Heaven"
  By Naomi Pfefferman

Issue 83: Bar and Bat Mitzvah in Interfaith Families, Part 1

My Personal Story

• Albert Einstein and Lasagna: Our Daughter's Jewish-Italian Bat Mitzvah
  By Deborah Freeman
• Planning My Daughter's Bat Mitzvah as a Jew-by-Choice
  By Paula Yablonsky

News

• A New Generation of Filmmakers in France Focuses on Jewish Issues
  By Andrew Diamond

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Judaism 101 - Presented in a Concise and Friendly Manner
  By Marlena Thompson

Issue 84: Israel and Interfaith Families

My Personal Story

• A Michigan Yankee in Israel's Court
  By Jim Keen
• How to Talk about Israel When the Other is One of Them
  By Edie Aronowitz Mueller

Professional View

• Israel: Yours, Mine...or Ours?
  By Rabbi Arthur P. Nemitoff

Column

• What is Zionism Anyway?
  By Gil Mann

Dialogue and Debate

• How Can We Solidify Intermarried Families' Commitment to Israel?
  By Sarah Tauber

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Anti-Semitism Within: A Review of "The Believer"
  By Ronnie Friedland
• An Epic Novel That Helps Explain the Middle East Today: A Review of Leon Uris' "Exodus"
  By Shira Dicker
• Reviews of Two Children's Books That Explore Islam and the Middle East
  By Judy Chernak and Judith Boston-Fasman

Issue 85: Anti-Semitism and Interfaith Families

My Personal Story

• "I'm Jewish, Jewish, Jewish!"
  By Teresa McMahon
• Confronting Anti-Semitism: If I Don't Respond, Who Will?
  By Paula Yablonsky
• Today I am a Jew
  By Catherine Ford

Column

• Why Do People Hate Jews?
  By Gil Mann

News

• New Report on Anti-Semitism in Arab World Called "Bone-Chilling"
  By Sharon Samber
• German Jews Warn Against Racism, Say Taboo on Anti-Semitism Is Gone
  By Toby Axelrod

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Late Marriage: A Review
  By Ronnie Friedland
• Dover Kosashvili, Writer and Director of "Late Marriage" and Robit Elkabetz, the Female Lead, Talk with InterfaithFamily.com
  By Rommie Friedland
• Israeli Films Hit the Road
  By Tom Tugend

Issue 86: Anti-Semitism and Interfaith Families, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Anti-Semitism: Now It's My Problem, Too
  By Jim Keen
• Looking for Answers
  By Allison Harper

Professional View

• Anti-Semitism: Where Does It Begin...and End?
  By Rabbi Arthur Nemitoff

Dispatch from the Institute

• Help the Intermarried Keep Israel Strong
  By Terry Elkes

News from North America

• Bomb Detonated at Quebec Synagogue
  By Bram Eisenthal
• Class Causes Academic Uproar at U.C. Berkeley
  By Joe Eskenazi
• Daniel Pearl's Father Gives Prize to Group
  By Tom Tugend

News from Europe

• Jews from across Europe Converge for Israel Solidarity Rally
  By Toby Axelrod
• Despite Rally, Israel's Friends Face an Uphill Battle in Europe
  By Toby Axelrod
• Accusations of Anti-Semitism Roil Germany's Literary, Political Worlds
  By Toby Axelrod
• U.S. Commision Poised to Address Europe's Latest Anti-Semitic Scourge
  By Sharon Samber

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• An Affair Doomed by History
  By Marlena Thompson

Issue 87: Bar and Bat Mitzvah, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Involving Both Sides of Our Family in Tzedakah Projects in Preparation for My Son's Bar Mitzvah
  By Debi Tenner
• One Family's Bat Mitzvah Story
  By Helen Belitsky

Dispatch from the Institute

• Less Bar, More Mitzvah
  From the Jewish Outreach Institute

News

• Rabbis Who Serve Interfaith Nuptials Tend to Go It Alone
  By Lisa Keys

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A How-to Book for Our Time
  By Sybil Kaplan
• Explaining Jewish Spirituality to Christians: A Review
  By Marlena Thompson

Issue 88: Weddings, Part 1

My Personal Story

• A Place for Us
  By Karen Engels
• Working out Interfaith Issues before Marriage
  By Staci Kennedy

Professional View

• Under the Rainbow: God Meets Intermarriage
  By Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Dialogue and Debate

• Embracing Two Realities: Thoughts about Opposition to Intermarriage as I Approach Mine
  By Mina Silberberg

News

• Seeing Israel with Different Eyes-Jewish and Arab
  By Soshana Hebshi

Dispatch from the Institute

• Navigating a Relationship before Marriage
  From the Jewish Outreach Institute

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Sweet and Loeb: Lisa Loeb's Album "Cake and Pie" Is a Salute to Wanting It All
  By Naomi Pfefferman

Issue 89: Weddings, Part 2

Professional View

• A Catholic Priest's Perspective on Interfaith Marriage
  By Rev. Walter H. Cuenin
• Counseling Interfaith Couples Who Want Me to Marry Them
  By Rev. Yvonne V. Schaudt
• Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?
  By Rabbi Bruce Kadden
• I Do!: A Jewish Premarital Counseling Program
  By S. Courtney Nathan, LCSW

Dialogue and Debate

• On Rabbinic Officiation at Interfaith Weddings
  By Jacqueline Guttman

News

• Lone Jew in Lithuanian Town Spends Life Preserving the Past
  By Adam B. Ellick

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Review of A Better Tomorrow
  By Marlena Thompson

Issue 90: Weddings, Part 3

My Personal Story

• A Little More Love, A Little Less Fear
  By Elie Aharon
• Our Most Challenging Interfaith Topic: What Religion Would Our Children Have?
  By Jim Keen

Professional View

• Interfaith and Interfaithless Marriages
  By Rabbi Bruce Kadden
• If You Love Each Other Enough...Marriage Is Still Not Easy!
  By S. Courtney Nathan, LCSW

Dialogue and Debate

• Why I Do Not Officiate at Interfaith Marriages
  By Rabbi Elias Lieberman
• Why I Am a Unitarian
  By Sara Holtz

News

• Study: Most Children of Intermarriage Enter College with No Jewish Connections
  By Joe Berkofsky
• Conservative Rabbis Reaching Out to Interfaith Couples
  By Alexandra Wall

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Women Who Don't Need Men: The Creators of "Kissing Jessica Stein" Put a Spin on Being Single
  By Naomi Pfefferman

Issue 91: The Jewish High Holidays

My Personal Story

• Gathering as a Community
  By Charlotte Green Honigman-Smith
• A Catholic's Confession
  By Teresa McMahon
• High Holidays, 2002, New York
  By Linda Avila

Professional View

• Shared Values: Shared Holidays
  By Rabbi Arthur P. Nemitoff

News

• A Feast from Jewish Tunisia: Recipes for Rosh Hashanah
  By Linda Morel

Dispatch from the Institute

• High Holy Sport vs. Spectacle
  From the Jewish Outreach Institure

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• An Intermarried Christian Divinity Professor Writes about Celebrating and Finding Meaning in the Jewish Holiday
  By Rabbi Bruce Kadden

Issue 92: September 11

My Personal Story

• Vulnerability and Forgiveness: Two Themes for the High Holidays, 2002
  By Paula Hellman

Professional View

• Four Lessons of September 11, 2001 for All Americans
  By Rabbi Paul Citrin

Personal Stories from Members of Jewish-Moslem Families

• Numb
  By Soshana Hebshi-Holt
• One Year after September 11
  By Nora Lester Murad

News

• Rabbis Strive for Inspiring Words after a Year of Terror and Tumult
  By Joe Berkofsky
• Religious Liberty after September 11: Reflections on Washington's Letter
  By Eli N. Evans

Dispatch from the Institute

• Finding Comfort in The Jewish Community
  From the Jewish Outreach Institute

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A Healing Album for Our Time: A Review of Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising"
  By Rebecca Cohen

Issue 93: Birth Ceremonies

My Personal Story

• Another Generation Begins
  By Tanya H. Keith

Professional View

• Having a Jewish Baby? "In the Beginning" Can Help
  By Dru Greenwood
• Dear Rabbi: An Adoption and Conversion Question
  By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

News

• Israelis Re-examine Russian Aliyah
  By Jessica Steinberg
• The Promising Land: In Rural New England, Communities Grow from Efforts of Few Individuals
  By Andrew Muchin

Dispatch from the Institute

• Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water!
  From the Jewish Outreach Institute

Sukkot and Simchat Torah

• The Sukkah Links Us to Craft and Creation
  By Rabbi Daniel S. Brenner

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• How Life Imitated Art in Bernard Rose's Independent Film "ivansxtc"
  By Naomi Pfefferman

Issue 94: The Circumcision Debate, Part 1

Arguing FOR Curcumcision

• A Connection with Our People
  By Rabbi Kenneth S. Weiss
• Dispatch from the Institute: A Little Pain Now to Avoid a LOT of Pain Later
  By Rabbi Kerry Olitzky

Arguing AGAINST Circumcision

• Circumcision: My Position
  By Mark Reiss, M.D.
• Circumcision Alone A Jew Does Not Make
  By Rabbi Yeshaia Charles Familant

Review of a Book about Circumcision

• A New and Controversial Look at the Age-Old Practice of Circumcision
  By Marlena Thompson

News about Circumcision

• Jewish Bris Ceremony Shows You're Never Too Young for Tradition
  By Sam McManis
• "Why Doesn't God Talk to Us?"
  By Brigitte Dayan

Dialogue and Debate

• On Conversion, Jewish Law Has Many Voices
  By Rabbi David Ellenson

News

• Jewish Population Undercounted? New Study Launches a New Debate
  By Joe Berkofsky
• A Long-Awaited Population Survey to Unveil New Portrait of U.S. Jewry
  By Joe Berkofsky

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Reactions to Jerusalem, A Play about an Intermarriage, and a Conversation with the Playwright
  By Ronnie Friedland

Issue 95: The Circumcision Debate, Part 2

Alternatives to Circumcision

• Circumcision: A Jewish Inquiry
  By Lisa Braver Moss
• Why I Am Not Having My Sons Circumcised
  By Dawn Friedman
• Our Son's Bris Shalom, or Welcoming Covenant
  By Brenda Platt

Review of a Film about Circumcision

• My Wife is an Actress - a French Film about Insecurity and Circumcision
  By Ronnie Friedland

Dialogue and Debate

• Thoughts on Officiating at Interfaith Marriages
  By Rabbi Laurence A. Kotok
• How I Officiate at Interfaith Marriages
  By Rabbi Helen Nakdimen

News

• A Smaller, Graying American Jewry Poses New Challenges for Community
  By Joe Berkofsky
• Population Study Revives Debate over Best Approach to Intermarriage
  By Joe Berkofsky

Issue 96: Thanksgiving

My Personal Story

• A Quilt? A Stew? Who Are We, Anyway?
  By Linda Arking
• Here for the Holidays
  By Charlotte Honigman-Smith

Dispatch from the Institute

• Thanksgiving Thoughts
  By Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky

Dialogue and Debate

• Interfaith Marriage: Why I Officiate
  By Rabbi Michael Weisser
• Reach Out to Intermarrieds
  By Edmund Case

News

• Using Thanksgiving Leftovers the Next Day for Hanukkah
  By Linda Morel

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• Jewish Cowboys and Chicken Farmers: Two Films That May Confound Your Stereotypes
  By Ronnie Friedland
• A Conversation with Filmmaker Bonnie Burt
  By Ronnie Friedland

Issue 97: Finding a Home

My Personal Story

• Finding the "Right" Suburb
  By Emily Cappo
• Why We Chose a Jewish Early Childhood Center for Our Children
  By Jim Keen
• Creating a Synagogue Family
  By Rachel Goldsmith
• Conservative Synagogues are Welcoming Homes to Interfaith Families
  By Ruth Gross

Professional View

• Bridget and Bernie Go to Shul
  By Rabbi Mark Hillel Kunis

Dialogue and Debate

• For Officiating at Intermarriages: The Voice of Zipporah
  By Rabbi Stephen Kahn
• For Maintaining Boundaries between Jews and Non-Jews: Outreach Yes...but Not at the Expense of Standards
  By Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik

News

• My Breakfast with Paul Wellstone
  By Mordecai Specktor
• Influential Coalition Wants to End Taboo against Promoting Inmarriage
  By Joe Berkofsky
• Effort to Embrace Believers, from Burma to Uganda, Gains Steam
  By Gary Rosenblatt

Dispatch from the Institute

• "House Shopping" in the Jewish Community
  From the Jewish Outreach Institute

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A Conversation with "The Grey Zone's" David Arquette
  By Naomi Pfefferman

Issue 98: December Holidays

My Personal Story

• A Protestant Dad Discovers Shabbat
  By Jim Keen
• Remembrance of Doughnuts Past: Defending the Meaning of Hanukkah
  By Jane Ulman
• My First Christmas Eve Dinner at My Son's Home
  By Raquel Stabinski-Leib

Dispatch from the Institute

• Hanukkah Means Rededication
  Fromt he Jewish Outreach Institute

News

• Network Strives to Embrace Jews of All Races, Ethnicities
  By Mica Rosenberg
• Rabbi, Priest for Ari's Nuptials
  By Lisa Keys
• In Prexy Bid, Vt. Gov Taps AIPAC Vet: Married to Jew, Courting Others
  By E. J. Kessler

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• "Eight Crazy Nights": An Adam Sandler Film about Hanukkah
  By Naomi Pfefferman
• L.A.'s Top Morning Newswoman Shares Her Passion for Her Twin Heritage as a Jewish Latina
  By Michael Aushenker

Issue 99: December Holidays, Part 2

My Personal Story

• Honoring In-Laws' Holidays: One Jewish Grandmother's Approach
  By Zell Schulman
• The Christmas Tree Mitzvah
  By Teresa A. McMahon
• The Last Christmas Tree
  By Elaine K. Markowitz
• Christmas Complications
  By Gary Goldhammer
• December Holidays at Our House
  By Rachel Barenblat

Dialogue and Debate

• At Issue: Should Efforts Be Made to Draw Interfaith Couples into the Jewish Community?
  From The Jerusalem Report

News

• Looking for Mr. Goodstein: When Gentile Singles Seek Jewish Mates
  By Lisa Scherzer
• Sacks and Salvation: England's Chief Rabbi Claims That Jews Don't Hold the Monopoly on Truth
  By Eric J. Greenberg

Reviews, Interviews, Profiles

• A Conversation with Julie Taymor about Her Film "Frida"
  By Naomi Pfefferman
• Holiday Miracles: A Novella about an Intermarried Family
  By Ronnie Friedland