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InterfaithFamily.com Fact Sheet

InterfaithFamily.com, Inc. is the online resource for interfaith families exploring Jewish life and the grass-roots advocate for a welcoming Jewish community. This resource is for everyone touched by interfaith relationships where one partner is Jewish, on every topic of interest to them, and for everyone who works with and cares about them.

Mission

InterfaithFamily.com empowers interfaith families to make Jewish choices for themselves and their children, and encourages the Jewish community to welcome interfaith families. We believe that maximizing the number of interfaith families who find fulfillment in Jewish life and raise their children as Jews is essential to the future strength and vitality of the Jewish community. Through our website and other programs, we provide useful educational information, connect interfaith families to local Jewish communities, build community, and advocate for inclusive attitudes, policies and practices.

History

The online magazine InterfaithFamily.com was launched in November 1998 by Jewish Family & Life!, a leading provider of Jewish media. Edmund Case became the publisher of the magazine in May 1999. In 2001 Ed acquired the magazine and founded the independent non-profit InterfaithFamily.com, Inc. to better serve the needs of interfaith families. Following the acquisition, the website was expanded to offer additional resources and an advocacy membership association was created.

Activities

Resources

We deliver helpful, non-judgmental information and a warm welcome that be accessed privately, at any time convenient to the user.

From November 1998 to October 2007, InterfaithFamily.com produced the only Jewish publication in the world, either online or in print, that reached out directly to interfaith families. We have published nearly 200 issues and our Article Archive contains more than 1,600 articles. In October 2007, InterfaithFamily.com discontinued the web magazine format and began publishing new content on a daily basis.

InterfaithFamily.com also produced the first-of-its-kind anthology, The Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life: An InterfaithFamily.com Handbook (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2001), to offer much-needed resources for interfaith families seeking to explore Jewish life.

Article Archive: /archive

Connections

InterfaithFamily.com makes connections between interfaith families, outreach professionals, programs and rabbis in a variety of ways. The Connections In Your Area section of our website lists current, updated information about more than 340 programs and organizations in local Jewish communities throughout North America that welcome the participation of interfaith families. Our Professionals Advisory Circle connects more than 50 professionals in the Jewish outreach community. Our online discussions allow readers to support and inform each other by sharing their experiences.

Connections in Your Area: /connections

Discussion boards: /discussions

Advocacy

The InterfaithFamily.com Network is a grass-roots advocacy association working to foster a Jewish community that is genuinely open, welcoming and inclusive--one that understands, and is sensitive to, the realities of intermarriage and today's interfaith families, and encourages their Jewish choices. The Network advocates for attitudes, policies and practices that Jewish organizations and leaders can use to engage and include interfaith families within the Jewish community.

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Media Contacts

For policy questions, background on intermarriage, history of organization, information on communal response to intermarriage:
Edmund Case
President and Publisher
(617) 581-6805
edc@interfaithfamily.com

For general information (requests for contacts, resources, etc.):
Micah Sachs
Managing Editor
(617) 581-6861
micahs@interfaithfamily.com

Our Address

InterfaithFamily.com
90 Oak St., P.O. Box 428
Newton, MA 02464
(617) 581-6860
FAX: (617) 965-7772

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