Archive for December, 2009
Monday, December 14th, 2009
Discussion for the Non-Jewish Partner in an Interfaith Family
Are you not Jewish, but keeping a Jewish home and raising Jewish kids?
Do you have questions about “doing Jewish,” or Jewish home rituals?
Do you have concerns about your child’s coming bar/bat mitzvah?
Has something bothered you or puzzled you in the Jewish community?
Are some (or all) of the holidays confusing? Or fun, but you still have [...]
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Growing Your Child’s Identity in an Interfaith Family
Children move through a variety of developmental stages. How can we support their identity development and family attachment in age appropriate ways? Children in interfaith families are integrating multiple traditions and family heritages, we will look at how to weave together disparate backgrounds into one whole “self.”
San Francisco Brandeis Day School, 655 Brotherhood Way, San [...]
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Celebrating Holidays in the Interfaith Family
HOME SWEET HOME: Celebrating Holidays in Interfaith Families
Christmas and Chanukah, Easter and Passover, December and April can be challenging times for Jewish families and interfaith families. The whole country seems to be wrapped up in a holiday that Jews don’t observe. Can an interfaith family celebrate both holidays? How would that work for the kids? [...]
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Chanukah Activities Around the Bay
Chanukah arrives tomorrow evening along with Shabbat. Light your Chanukah candles FIRST and your Shabbat candles second. Why? Because once you light the Shabbat candles you bring in the Sabbath and are not permitted to light a flame. I know some of you are huffing right about now. Why worry about these details? What is [...]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
December Holidays – Just do it!
We are now into December. Whatever you’ve determined to do for Chanukah and Christmas, do it and do it with joy. If you need to tweak it, we can talk about that in January. In fact I’ll be having a workshop in San Francisco to talk about Jewish and Christian holidays for the interfaith family [...]
