Handlarski: Why won’t the Toronto Board of Rabbis welcome me?
Rabbi Denise Handlarski theorizes why she was rejected recently by the Toronto Board of Rabbis.
My big, fat, same-sex, interfaith Jewish wedding
Rabbi Micah Streiffer writes about his recent experience officiating a same-sex Jewish wedding where one partner was not Jewish.
Married with Kids: Life is too short to spend it alone
Lauren Kramer writes about her younger brother’s decision to marry a non-Jewish lady.
Born to a non-Jewish mother
How Jewish groups and interfaith couples wrestle with patrilineal descent.
Mida: 2018 survey of Jews in Canada: Is the picture that rosy?
Much of what the survey concluded doesn’t ring true, Israel Mida says.
Marmur: The evolving answer to ‘Who is a Jew?’
Rabbi Dow Marmur writes about how both Reform and Conservative Judaism is changing.
Montreal rabbi to reach out to interfaith couples
Rabbi Boris Dolin, the spiritual leader of Montreal’s Reconstructionist Congregation Dorshei Emet, is among 11 North American rabbis – and the only one from Canada – who were selected to take part in a new program that focuses on working with interfaith couples.
Streiffer: Intermarried families are also Jewish families
Rabbi Micah Streiffer writes that “viewing intermarried couples as a threat is not helping us, and may in fact be threatening the very future that we seek to ensure.”
Weinfeld: The intermarriage consensus
David Weinfeld examines the topic of intermarriage.
Marmur: Judaism challenged by anti-Semitism and intermarriage
“Intermarriage has now become an internal threat to Jewish continuity. Some pundits who had already written off the Diaspora in general because of the danger posed by anti-Semitism now also point specifically to its liberal majority, because many are likely to marry non-Jews.”
