PAST ISSUES BY YEAR - 1999

Issue 4: Lifecycle Ceremonies in Interfaith Families

Feature Stories

• Welcoming Babies into Intermarried Families:
  Choosing Ceremonies
  By Anita Diamant
• On The Eighth Day, In Every Generation:
  A Guide To Brit Milah (Ritual Circumcision)
  By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
• On Adopting Children from a Different Religion and Culture:
  My Experiences with Eric and Christopher
  By Cheryl A. Lieberman
• My Son's Baptism:
  A Jewish Mom's Struggle
  By Emily H. Cappo

Film Reviews

• An Interfaith Family Faces the Holocaust
  A Review of "Life is Beautiful"
  By Ronnie Friedland, Editor

Issue 5: All About Circumcision

Feature Stories

• Why the Brit (Ritual Circumcision) and Brit Bat (Girl Baby Naming) Are So Popular Today
  By Rabbi Amy Weiss
• Welcoming A Son Into An Interfaith Family:
  What Is a Mohel And How Do You Find One?
  By Rabbi Kenneth S. Weiss
• A Non-Orthodox Physician-Mohel: Some Differences in Approach
  By Dr. Samuel A. Kunin

Book Reviews

• A Rabbi (Who Had Been Intermarried) Comes Home Again and Welcomes Interfaith Families to Her Colorado Congregation
  By Judith Bolton-Fasman
• A Novel about a Catholic Italian-American and a Jew from Long Island Who Fall in Love and Marry
  By Judith Bolton-Fasman

Issue 6: Bar/Bat Mitzvahs in Interfaith Families

Feature Stories

• Attending My Niece's Bat Mitzvah: A Non-Jewish Perspective
  By Martha Little
• Bar Mitzvahs as An Opportunity for Family Healing:
  How the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Can Work Theraputically
  By Dr. Judith Davis
• One Family's Multicultural Coming-of-Age Celebration:
  The Jewish Bar Mitzvah and The Hindu Thread Ceremony
  By Helen Mintz Belitsky
• The Bar/Bat Mitzvah: A Rite of Passage for the Whole Family
  By Dr. Judith Davis

Book Reviews

• On the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ritual: Two Books Explore its Impact
  By Rebecca Kotkin
• A Year in the Life of a Family's Bar Mitzvah: A Personal Account
  By Judith Bolton-Fasman
  

Issue 7: Interfaith Weddings Part 1

Feature Stories

• Thoughts on My Interfaith Wedding
  By Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
• Why Do You Do This?: A Rabbi's Experience With Interfaith Marriage
  By Rabbi Neil Kominsky
• One Rabbi's Approach to Interfaith Wedding Ceremonies:Plus a Sample Interfaith Wedding Ceremony
  By Rabbi Devon Lerner

Book Reviews

• On the Road Again
  A Rabbi Comes Home Again
  By Judith Bolton-Fasman

Issue 8: Interfaith Weddings Part 2

Feature Stories

• You Don't Need a Rabbi to Have a Jewish Wedding
  By Anita Diamant
• What's Jewish About the Jewish Wedding?
  By Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin
• Wedding Customs:
  Old, New, and Renovated
  By Marlena Thompson
• New Styles in Chuppot (Wedding Canopies)
  By Helen Mintz Belitsky

Book Reviews

• From the Wedding Kiss to Conjugal Bliss:
  A Review of Two Classics on Love and Marriage in the Jewish Tradition
  By Marlena Thompson

Dear Rabbi

• Wedding Bells
  By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
• What's in a Mother-in-Law?
  By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

Issue 9: Passover in an Interfaith Family

Feature Stories

• A Christian's Guide to Passover
  By Rabbi Bruce Kadden
• Creating Jewish Memories for Interfaith Families at the Passover Seder
  By Debora Antonoff
• My Husband's First Passover: Old, New, and Renovated
  By Emily Cappo
• Dietary Rules for Passover: Some Guidelines
  By Rabbi Richard Israel 
• A Stranger at the Table
  By Tim Rossi

Book Reviews

• The Jew in the Choir
  By Judith Bolton-Fasman

Hands-On

• Passover: Situations & Solutions
  By Rabbi Susan Silverman & Yosef L. Abramowitz
• Passover: Rules & Regs
  By Rabbi Susan Silverman & Yosef L. Abramowitz

Issue 10: Death and Burial in Interfaith Families

Feature Stories

• Till Death Do Us Part
  By Anita Diamant
• Children's Grief Reactions to the Death of a Loved One:
  What to Expect
  By Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, D.H.I., D.D.
• Interfaith Cemetaries
  A Growing Need
  By Claire Bessette
• Last Thoughts Do Count
  By Ilene Springer
• Jewish Views on the Afterlife
  By Lisa Alcalay Klug

Book Reviews

• Books On Mourning
  By Ellen Jaffe Gill

Dear Rabbi

• Sitting Shiva
  By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

Issue 11: Gay Interfaith Relationships

Feature Stories

• Interfaith at the Top
  By Lev Baesh
• One Gay, Interfaith, Interracial Relationship
  By tova
• Call Me Old Fashioned, But...
  By C. Andrew Martin

Book Reviews

• A Lost Identity: The Past Reconsidered
  By Dinah Zeltser

Issue 12: Negotiating Interfaith Relationships and Interfaith Divorce Issues

Feature Stories

• Opening Up Communication in an Interfaith Relationship
  By Paula Brody
• He's Jewish, I'm Jewish and It's Still a Mixed Marriage!
  By Debra Darvick
• Divorced, not Jewish, but My Kids Are
  By Daniel Little
• Divorce and the Interfaith Family
  By Rabbi Jeffrey A. Marx

Issue 13: Relationships with the Extended Family, Part 1

Feature Stories

• The Pain of Religious Differences in the Family and the Healing Power of Love
  By Martha Little
• From My Perspective: How Joining a Parents of Interfaith Children Group Helped Me
  By Bobbie Friedman
• When Intermarriage in the Extended Family Affects My Family's Religious Celebration: Some Thoughts and Feelings
  By Nancy Reuben Greenfield

Theater Reviews

• The Musical "Cabaret" Presents The Chilling Transition to Nazism:Including An Interfaith Marriage Derailed by Threats
  By Ronnie Friedland

Issue 14: Relationships with the Extended Family, Part 2

Feature Stories

• Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother: Reflections On Being Part Of An Interfaith Family
  By Reena Judd
• A Jewish Mother Sings the Interfaith Wedding Blues
  By Pearl Choset Salkin
• Jewish Words
  By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

Book Reviews

• Jewish Catholics, Catholic Jews: One Family's Story
  Review of "Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family"
  By Judith Bolton-Fasman

Issue 15: More on Interfaith Families and the Synagogue: A Good Fit?, Part 1

Feature Stories

• First Steps Into Synagogue Life
  By Debora W. Antonoff
• Will Christopher McNulty feel "at home" in a Jewish Religious School?
  By Sheila E. Goldberg
• Judaism Is Not a Closed Club
  By Dru Greenwood

Book Reviews

• A Jewish-Catholic Love Story: A Review of Pink Slip
  By Ellen Jaffe Gill

Issue 16: More on Interfaith Families and the Synagogue: A Good Fit?, Part 2

Feature Stories

• Synagogue Gateways for Interfaith Families
  By Linda Walker
• Community, Compatibility and Ambivalence: Why Some Interfaith Families Leave Temples
  By Jeri Zeder

Book Reviews

• From Congo to Judaism: A Spiritual and Interfaith Pilgrimage
  By Judy Bolton-Fasman

Issue 17: More on Interfaith Families and the Synagogue: A Good Fit?, Part 3

Feature Stories

• Divided Loyalties
  A Challenge to Action
  By Eleanor Jaffe
• A Christian's View of Our Family Temple's Interfaith Discussion Group
  By Charles McMillan

Book Reviews

• A Jewish Odyssey:
  A Review of A Stranger in the Midst: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
  By Susan Katz Miller

Issue 18: Interfaith Families and the Jewish High Holidays Part 1

Feature Stories

• Interfaith Families and the High Holidays:
  By Roberta Calderone
• Date the New Year with the Symbolic Foods of a Seder
  By Rahel Musleah

Book Reviews

• Review of Strangers to the Tribe: Portraits of Interfaith Marriage
  By Susan Katz Miller

My Personal Story

• My Perspective on the Days of Awe
  A Challenge to Action
  By Patricia Lombard
• Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the Non-Jewish Partner
  By Andrea King

Issue 19: Interfaith Families and the Jewish High Holidays Part 2

Feature Stories

• Family Activities and Thoughts for Yom Kippur
  By Yosef I. Abramowitz

Book Reviews

• Choosing a Jewish Life: A Review
  By Nancy Mickelwright

My Personal Story

• My Choice; My Journey
  By Arlene Sarah Chernow

Issue 20: Interfaith Families and Conversion, Part 1

Feature Stories

• Thoughts on Secular Conversion: An Important Alternative to Religious Conversion
  By Yossi Beilin

Book Reviews

• Opening the Gates: How Proactive Conversion Can Revitalize the Jewish Community
  A Review
  By Ed Case

My Personal Story

• "And Your People Shall Be My People": A Convert Talks About Becomming a Rabbi
  By Kari Field
• My Conversion Story
  By Anita Diamant
• My Mikvah: A Meaningful Part of My Reform Conversion and Journey to Judaism
  By Rachel Goldsmith

Issue 21: Interfaith Families and Conversion, Part 2

Feature Stories

• Welcoming Initiates to Judaism: Why I prefer the Term Initiation
  By Rabbi Daniel Siegel
• Sanctifying Waters: The Mikvah and Conservative Judaism
  By Rabbi Myron S. Geller
• A French Resistance Heroine Savers Her Jewish Husband: A Review of "Lucie Aubrac"
  By Ronnie Friedland
• A Conversion Question: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson answers readers' questions on JewishFamily.com's Dear Rabbi
  By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

My Personal Story

• How My Jewish Boyfriend Resisted My Desire to Convert
  By Angela R. Garber
• Becoming Jewish in the Eyes of My Parents
  By Cathy Rein

Issue 22: Dealing with Intolerance

Feature Stories

• Him, Her or Us: The Family Loyalty Knot
  By Eleanor Jaffe

Issue 23: Dealing with Death

Feature Stories

• Bereavement and the Interfaith Family
  By Rabbi Elias J. Lieberman
• "A Jewish person in my extended family has just died. Since I am not of that faith, what do I do?...Help!"
  By Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, D.H.L., D.D.
• How to Talk to Your Kids About Death
  By Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, D.H.L., D.D.

Book Reviews

• Books On Mourning
  By Ellen Jaffe Gill

Issue 24: December Dilemma, Part 1

My Personal Story

• How Can I Embrace the December Holidays without Offending My Jewish Family?
  By Cheryl Opper
• December Angst
  By Sheri Levin McNerthney

Reviews

• Interfaith Storyline on Guiding Light
  By Paulette Cohn

Issue 25: December Dilemma, Part 2

Feature Stories

• How to Talk to Your Kids About Jesus
  By Debra B. Darvick

 My Personal Story

• My First Hanukkah
  By Douglas Smith
• My First Christmas
  By Emily H. Cappo

Reviews

• The Whys and Wherefores of Being Jewish
  By Marlena Thompson
• Pepper Ann Tries to Celebrate "A Kosher Christmas"
  By Anne Ludden

Issue 26: Celebrating Shabbat

Feature Stories

• Shabbat Shalom: The Sabbath Peace of Friday Night
  How Jews Celebrate the Sabbath
  By Hanna Tiferet Siegel
• The Millennium Shift: A Jewish Approach
  By Hanna Tiferet Siegel

My Personal Story

• Shabbat Becomes My Own
  By Rachel Goldsmith
• On My Own: Entering a Synagogue Without a Family
  By Douglas Smith

Reviews

• A Sequel Equal to its Predeccessor in Distinction: A Review of The Second Jewish Book of Why
  By Marlena Thompson