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Oct 31, 2025, 12:53 AM

What Season Two of Nobody Wants This Gets Right About Interfaith Relationships

Last year, it was What Nobody Wants This Gets Wrong about Interfaith Relationships Today. This year, season two gets a lot right. The first season’s blatant hostility to interfaith marriage is gone. There’s no glaring at Joanne, no calling her...

Aug 5, 2025, 7:45 PM

Jewish Marriage and Intermarriage: An Interfaith Family Perspective

As co-chair of the Conservative movement’s Intermarriage Working Group, Rabbi Aaron Brusso is a key leader in the movement’s efforts to address interfaith marriage. Recently after a Conservative synagogue announced that its clergy would participate in weddings of interfaith...

Jun 26, 2024, 3:54 PM

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Ordaining intermarried rabbis is not enough

A chuppah at a Jewish wedding. More than 60% of American Jews have married non-Jewish partners in the last decade, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. (Photo: Scott Rocher via Flickr Commons)

The Reform rabbinical school missed an opportunity to fully welcome interfaith families into the Jewish community

Mar 26, 2024, 3:23 AM

A Fresh Perspective on Interfaith Marriage

More than three quarters of the way into To Be a Jew Today – an intense analysis of God, Israel and the Jewish people – Noah Feldman offers a fresh perspective on interfaith marriage. He’s not a Jewish communal...

May 6, 2023, 2:00 AM

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‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ gets intermarriage wrong

Rachel McAdams, Abby Ryder Fortson and Benny Safdie star in "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," based on the Judy Blume novel. (©️2023 Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved)

In the movie, parents cut ties when their daughter marries someone of a different faith. It's a negative, outdated message

Mar 9, 2023, 2:20 PM

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What’s more important, being Jewish or doing Jewish?

Rabbinical students, including those with partners of other faiths, are deeply committed to Jewish life and Jewish community

Jun 12, 2018, 1:57 PM

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‘Radical inclusion’ of interfaith families is the best response to Michael Chabon

Illustrative. Hanukkah menorah. (via iStock)

Instead of labeling intermarriage a threat, we need a 'radical inclusion' approach for interfaith families

About Me

Edmund Case is the retired founder of 18Doors (formerly InterfaithFamily), president of the Center for Radically Inclusive Judaism, and author of Radical Inclusion: Engaging Interfaith Families for a Thriving Jewish Future, and of A New Theory of Interfaith Marriage.

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