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interfaith
Rabbi reverses interfaith marriage policy
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 27, 2012
It’s not often that a rabbi’s High Holy Days sermon is interrupted by a standing ovation. But that is what happened — twice — when Rabbi John Rosove, senior rabbi of Temple Israel of Hollywood, dedicated his sermon on the first day of Rosh Hashanah to explaining why he was changing a long-held position and would from now on officiate at interfaith weddings.
The dreadful ‘D’ words
Bishop Mary Ann Swenson and Dr. Nur Amersi
April 25, 2008
Divorce, dissolution, divestment: These are words that spell the end of a relationship and of what might have been — through time and patience — a meaningful and inspiring marriage.
Right the Wrongs
Rabbi Lisa Edwards
August 4, 2005
Last January, I breathed a sigh of relief. The new domestic partnership law went into effect in the state of California, giving senior citizen and same-gender couples a range of state rights nearly equal to the rights given married couples in California.
In so doing, California became second only to Massachusetts in seeking to extend the civil rights of its residents, and many members of the Los Angeles Jewish community, myself included, knew we finally had the legal protections in place that are so critically important to the security of our families.
Mixed-Marriage Study Defies Logic
Edmund Case
July 15, 2004
Since the National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) confirmed the continuing high rate of intermarriage, it\’s been quiet on the "outreach"vs. "in-reach" front. The Jewish In-Marriage Initiative is slowly becoming active.
Mixed Marriage, Mixed Message
Sandee Brawarsky
May 6, 2004
\”Sort of Jewish\”,\”Jewish and something else\” \”might as well be Jewish\” are some of the ways people describe their Jewish identity in Sylvia Barack Fishman\’s significant new book probing the religious character of mixed-marriage households, \”Double or Nothing: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage.\”
Married to It
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
December 18, 2003
Kim and Rob Cavallo had worked out a lot of the tough issues that confront an interfaith family.
Defining Family
Yehuda Lev
November 20, 2003
A few months ago, in these pages, I described a brief visit to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of my daughter, Dafna, 42, and
her fiancé, Scott, 36 (\”Father of the Bride,\” July 11). It was a first marriage for both and celebrated without benefit of clergy — Scott being Christian and Dafna, Jewish.
This drew some criticism from readers who felt that I was amiss in not discouraging my daughter from marrying a non-Jew. One, in fact, reminded me that some Jews sit shiva when such a marriage takes place and regard the offending child as dead. It seemed to me that is a bit strong. There was also a time when adulterers were stoned, but we seem to have progressed beyond that. (More to the point perhaps, how does one tell a 42-year-old daughter whom she should marry?)
Your Letters
Jewish Journal
February 6, 2003
While Sharon Schatz Rosenthal\’s cover story notes that day schools are costly, it fails to address cost efficiency (\”Who Should Pay?\” Jan.31).
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