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Conservatives Focus on Intermarrieds

Sue Fishkoff June 1, 2006

Stephen Lachter didn\’t know what to expect when a friend dragged him to a men\’s club meeting at his Conservative synagogue five years ago.

\”My father was in a men\’s club, and to me, it was guys sitting around playing pinochle and volunteer ushering,\” he admitted.

Lachter was surprised to see \”interesting people having serious discussions,\” and he \”fell into a session on kiruv,\” or outreach, to intermarried families. \”I said to myself, this is something shuls need to be talking about.\”

Marriage Conversion Rate Proves Low

Rachel Silverman June 1, 2006

Fewer than one-fifth of non-Jews who marry Jews convert to Judaism, according to a new study distributed by the American Jewish Committee.

‘Because Judaism Feels Right’

Amy Klein June 1, 2006

When 50-year-old Hector Ventura was a young boy growing up in El Salvador four decades ago, his mother would always talk about Jewish customs. Which was strange, because the Venturas were not Jewish. Like most of their neighbors, they were Catholic — not particularly devout but Catholics just the same.

My Jewish Intermarriage

Wendy Jaffe February 9, 2006

Let\’s face it. Every marriage between two Jews is an intermarriage. I\’m not talking about the obvious ones, like a marriage between an Orthodox Jew and a Jew-by-birth who is not at all religious. Clearly if one spouse davens three times a day and the other spouse uses Mapquest to find her way to synagogue on Yom Kippur, a silver anniversary is not in their future. I\’m talking about the rest of us.

‘Top Gun’ Lawyer Aims to Aid Likud

Tom Tugend January 12, 2006

Born into a strongly Democratic family but later a founder of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Berman, at 51, is a man of strong physique and opinions.\n\n\”I am fed up with intermarriage and with rabbis who reach out to gay and intermarried couples,\” he said during an interview in his spacious Sunset Boulevard office.

‘Love With Noodles’ Rife With Canoodles

Dan Pine November 3, 2005

Narrated in the first person, present tense (always risky), \”Love With Noodles\” follows Gelder\’s canoodling with a string of women who enter his life just as he emerges from mourning his late beshert, Ellen. Gelder lives alone. His grown son, Eric, faces financial ruin. What\’s worse, Eric is planning to marry a non-Jew.

What, Meryl Worry?

Amy Klein October 27, 2005

56-year-old actor extraordinaire Streep of \”Out of Africa,\” \”Sophie\’s Choice,\” \”Kramer vs. Kramer,\” \”Postcards From the Edge,\” \”Angels in America,\”etc. and 13 Academy Award nominations fame has taken on the comi-tragic role of a Jewish mother.

A Place of Worship Where We Belong

Rachel Barenblat September 22, 2005

My resolution that High Holiday season? To find a congregational home by the following fall. I\’ve lived in this cluster of small towns for almost a decade: people know me on the street, at the grocery store, at the community-supported organic farm. It felt wrong to be so rootless when it came to religion.

Saying Goodbye to an Angel in Sin City

Teresa Strasser December 30, 2004

It\’s Davidson, as in Ronald Davidson, my stepfather. He died yesterday at 62 and that\’s why I\’m at a funeral home out on Charleston Boulevard in Las Vegas. My mom is here, too, and though there are copious boxes of proper tissue in the place, she is clinging to the roll of toilet paper she\’s had by her side since returning from the hospital with nothing but a bag of Ron\’s stuff: slippers, a stack of Louis L\’Amour paperbacks, his watch.

December Dilemma: Distorting Chanukah

Gaby Wenig December 2, 2004

Welcome to Chanukah and the December Dilemma. In Hebrew schools all over Los Angeles — and in temple discussion groups for intermarrieds on how to survive the holiday season — Chanukah is taught as a ritually dense Jewish substitute for Christmas that needs to elbow its way into some December shelf space, rather than a holiday that commemorates a group of Jews fighting against the forces of Hellenistic secularism to remain an insular, Torah-committed community.

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