Essays

A New Year to Engage Interfaith Families in Jewish Life (link)
September 12, 2012

Enough is Enough (link)
April 2007 (with Micah Sachs)

Don’t Write Off the Intermarried: A Case for Community Outreach (link)
February 12, 2007 (with Micah Sachs)

Let’s Encourage the Jewish Journeys of Interfaith Families (link)
July 2006

Negotiation and Accommodation in Mixed Marriages: An Interview with Edmund Case, Publisher of InterfaithFamily.com in Aufbau (link)
July 2006

The Next Big Thing is Now: Outreach to the Intermarried (link)
March 2006

Letter to the Editor of the Jewish Week: Mean-Spirited Approach (link)
February 10, 2006

Imagine… It’s Chrismukkah Time Again! (link)
December 2005

What’s In a Name? (link)
January 2005

“Chrismukkah” Is a Bad Idea (link)
December 2004

Social Science and the Intermarriage Debate (link)
June 30, 2004

The Passion: Learning from Interfaith Families (link)
March 2004

Remembering Egon Mayer (link)
February 2004

What We Can Learn from the InterfaithFamily.com Network Essay Contest (link)
September 2003

Network E-Letter (link)
January 3, 2003

How Should American Jewry Respond to the National Jewish Population Survey? Reach Out to Intermarrieds (link)
November 2002

Responding to the Intermarriage News (link)
March 2002

Should Efforts Be Made to Draw Interfaith Couples into the Jewish Community (link)
December 2001

Discouraging Intermarriage is Not the Way to Preserve Jewish Identity (link)
May 2001

Let’s Not Promote In-marriage Without Promoting Outreach to the Intermarried (link)
March 2001

An Intermarried Perspective on The Jew Within by Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen (link)
with a response by Arnold Eisen
January 2001

Let’s Make the Language of Jewish Prayer Inclusive (link)
November 2000

The High Holy Days Through Interfaith Eyes: A Time the “Strangers in Your Camp” Are Included (link)
October 2000

My Irish Vacation (link)
July 2000

Why Non-Jewish Spouses Sometimes Think That Jews Are Weird (link)
June 2000

Love Can Trump Tradition: Interfaith Relationships in Keeping the Faith (link)
May 2000

We Need a Religious Movement That Is Totally Inclusive of Intermarried Jewish Families (link)
with a response by Rabbi Carl Perkins, and a response to him
March 2000

How to Talk to Your Kids about Interfaith Dating: For Those Married to Jews or in Interfaith Marriages (link) February 2000

Opening the Gates: How Proactive Conversion Can Revitalize the Jewish Community (link)
October 1999

Parenting My Jewish Children in Our Interfaith Family: A Jewish Parent’s Point of View (link)
November 1998

Thank you for visiting. This site archives my writing prior to November 15, 2018, including content footnoted in Radical Inclusion: Engaging Interfaith Families for a Thriving Jewish Future. To access my newer writing, please visit the Center for Radically Inclusive Judaism.