I’m often asked for book recommendations. Here are some of the best books for interfaith families. Mixed Matches: How to Create Successful Interracial, Interethnic, and Interfaith Relationships By Dr. Joel Crohn This book remains the gold standard in the field. It respects the couple and those around them while identifying core values vs. prejudices. There…
Read More »My friend, Shifra, has done it again! A delicious way to learn about the plague of FROGS! Make enough for everyone! 1 cup confectioner’s sugar 3/4 cup almond flour 2 large egg whites, room temperature 1/4 cup superfine sugar 1/8 tsp. green food coloring 1 tablespoon finely chopped mint leaves Directions: Pulse confectioners’ sugar and…
Read More »If you missed the Jewish Diversity program and weren’t following the tweets on BecomingJewish, here is a quick rundown of the tweets. *Diane Tobin heads Be’chol Lashon: A Global Jewish People. *Young Jews are into social media and live in diverse circles. *Most countries don’t count religions. There’s a lot of controversy about who’s a…
Read More »Diane Tobin is the Director of Be’chol Lashon and is our next speaker the What Color Are Jews series Imagine the Jewish Future Worldwide, the number of Jews is stagnant. Decimated by the Inquisition, the Holocaust, high intermarriage rates and low birth rates, Jews now comprise only 0.2% of the world’s people. In focusing our…
Read More »There’s a new book out, The Jewish Annotated New Testament. It is by two Jews and has commentary by many Jewish scholars. The authors’ goals are to help Jews understand that time when all followers of Jesus were Jewish and how time and circumstance brought about a divide. Here is a quote from an interview…
Read More »Have you been considering taking an introduction or beginning Judaism class? Anytime is a good time to start. Many bay area classes have rolling enrollment; so say you entered the class in March, you would finish up in Feb. or 2013. You wouldn’t be going to class non-stop, but classes would feed into each other…
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