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An illustrative image of a huppah wedding canopy. (iStock/ Edward Shtern)
December 20, 2025, 2:02 am
US-based Conservative movement apologizes, signals new approach on intermarriage
In major shift, 3rd-largest Jewish denomination issues apology for decades of discouraging interfaith relationships, as critics say gaps exist between American and worldwide attitudes
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: A rabbi leads a blessing with wine in hand and tallit draped over his shoulders (Courtesy / Moti Dolgin via JTA)
August 14, 2025, 6:46 am
US Conservative rabbi quits movement, preempting sanctions over performing intermarriages
As the denomination’s ethics committee opens an investigation into rabbinical scion Ari Yehuda Saks’ participation in interfaith weddings, the cleric doesn’t wait for a verdict
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Karl Yoneda and Elaine Buchman, March 1933. (Courtesy of Karl G. Yoneda Papers, UCLA Library Special Collections)
July 28, 2025, 1:10 am
The sole Jewish-Japanese family in American WWII internment camps faced antisemitism
New book delves into how, fearing a fifth column following Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt government incarcerated 120,000 on the West Coast, two-thirds of them US citizens, up to four years
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Conservative Judaism has been trying to chart a middle path between Jewish tradition and acceptance of the reality of interfaith families. (Stock photo/Burke/Triolo Productions via Getty Images via JTA)
July 3, 2025, 3:34 pm
In first, US Conservative synagogue allows clergy to participate in interfaith weddings
While the policy change at Adath Jeshurun, a large Minneapolis-area congregation, goes against rules set by the denomination, top leadership has refrained from condemning it
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie dressed in drag, as his alter-ego, the Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross, as seen in 'Sabbath Queen,' a film by Sandi DuBowski. (Courtesy)
February 8, 2025, 2:46 am
From radical drag queen to rabbi, film depicts journey of a Jewish law breaker
‘Sabbath Queen’ follows gay scion of rabbinic dynasty Amichai Lau-Lavie for two decades as he challenges traditional Judaism’s norms and becomes a respected communal leader
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Huma Abedin and Alex Soros attend the 2024 Met Gala in New York. (Cindy Ord/MG24/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue via JTA)
July 12, 2024, 12:00 am
Soros’s son to marry Hilary Clinton’s former adviser Huma Abedin
Abedin is known for her former marriage to disgraced Jewish politician Anthony Weiner, who was jailed for sexting a minor
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Andrew Rehfeld delivers his inaugural address as president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 27, 2019. (Courtesy of HUC)
June 21, 2024, 10:06 am
Hebrew Union College rabbinical school to admit students in interfaith relationships
Policy change brings seminary in line with norms across Reform movement, where intermarriage is common; students with children must pledge to raise them as Jews
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Bride Esther and groom Steeve are carried on ornate thrones at their henna party in the week leading up to their wedding in 2007 in Casablanca, Morocco. (Courtesy of Indiana University Press)
February 14, 2024, 4:23 pm
Global mazel tov! New book chronicles weddings of 100 Jewish brides from around world
Women’s firsthand accounts illustrate the huge variety of customs associated with Jewish nuptials, while not shying away from pain and frustration about some practices
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A groom smashes the glass in a Jewish wedding, under the huppah (Mor Seban; iStock by Getty Images)
January 31, 2024, 8:39 pm
Conservative rabbis urged to engage with interfaith families, still can’t marry them
While a ban on officiating at intermarriages still stands, the movement is recommending an array of changes, from new rituals to updated hiring regulations, to increase inclusivity
By jacob gurvis
Far-right activist and Lehava member Or Liebler. (Screenshot/Twitter via Channel 13)
February 21, 2022, 8:43 pm
Far-right Jewish extremist discovers her biological parents are Muslim
Or Leibler, a member of a Jewish supremacist group who describes herself as a ‘proud Jew,’ forced to reevaluate beliefs after making unexpected discovery
By Tobias Siegal
Illustrative: A 2011 marriage ceremony of an interfaith couple from Boston. (Courtesy Jared and Laurie Berezin)
May 20, 2021, 1:58 am
Most US kids of intermarriage raised Jewish; parents want institutions to notice
A recent Pew study shows that over the last decade, most Jews have wed non-Jewish partners – but 2/3 of them imbue children with some Jewish identity, and this seems to be growing
By Ben Sales
Naian González Norvind as the title character in 'Leona,' directed by Isaac Cherem. (Photo by Diana Garay, courtesy of Fosforescente/ Menemsha Films)
February 12, 2021, 3:51 am
Debut film by Mexican duo, ‘Leona’ is way more than a Jewish ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Nuance, attention to detail, and ultimately, believability make for a gripping journey into Mexico’s insular Syrian Jewish community. Streaming Friday in virtual cinemas
By Jordan Hoffman
Rafi Peretz, head of the Union of Right-Wing Parties, holds a press conference after meeting with President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem, April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
July 16, 2019, 7:54 pm
Minister: I didn’t mean to hurt world Jewry with Holocaust intermarriage remark
Rafi Peretz tells Jewish Agency chief his comment lamenting intermarriage rates ‘probably was not proper,’ says he respects Diaspora Jews
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: Marc Mezvinsky and Chelsea Clinton combined Jewish and Methodist traditions during their wedding ceremony on July 31, 2010. (Genevieve de Manio, via JTA)
July 12, 2019, 3:46 pm
When American Jews described their own intermarriage as a ‘Second Holocaust’
Nearly 30 years ago, reports of a 52% interfaith household rate had some US Jewish leaders denouncing ‘assimilation’ as silently completing Hitler’s work
By Matt Lebovic
Education Minister Rafi Peretz arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 9, 2019, 11:53 pm
Israel’s education minister: Intermarriage among US Jews ‘like second Holocaust’
ADL chief says Rafi Peretz’s remark ‘trivializes the Shoah’; Israel-Diaspora activist group calls Israeli discourse about US Jews ‘irresponsible and disrespectful’
By JTA and ToI Staff
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