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Rain Pryor with daughter Lotus, named for her great-grandmother, Mama. (Courtesy)
July 31, 2019, 4:18 am
Is there anything Jewish mama Rain Pryor — Richard’s daughter — can’t do?
The singer, actress, author and comedian who has carved a space of her own in the entertainment industry announces that she is dipping her toes into another pool: politics
By Arielle Kaplan
(Collage by Alma; photo of T Kira Madden Madden courtesy of Madden/via JTA)
March 11, 2019, 3:24 am
Memoir takes on complex heritage of queer, Jewish, Chinese and Hawaiian author
T Kira Madden’s ‘Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls’ weaves a story of addiction, Florida, fatherless girls — and how Drew Barrymore saved her life
By Emily Burack
Miriam Jefferson (left) and Kalavati Mistry on their wedding day (YouTube screenshot)
August 19, 2017, 12:22 pm
Jew, Hindu in UK’s first lesbian interfaith wedding
Miriam Jefferson of Texas and Kalavati Mistry of Leicester finally tie the knot after 20 years
By TOI staff
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie chants as members of the Lab/Shul community hold an unfurled Torah scroll. (Courtesy)
From the WebJune 15, 2017, 11:04 am
Scion of chief rabbinical family breaks ranks over intermarriage
Jewish Week: Maverick Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie to leave Conservative rabbinic group over mixed-faith marriages — and he’s not alone
By Gary Rosenblatt
Lucas Grabeel as Toby Kennish and Rachel Shenton as Lily Summers in 'Switched at Birth.' (Adam Taylor/Freeform via Getty Images/via JTA)
April 3, 2017, 4:08 am
‘Switched at Birth’ gets an interfaith marriage dilemma just right
The show has tackled the hearing impaired community and sexual violence. Now it’s taking on religious identity
By Linda Buchwald
Jason and Julianne Kanter started talking about religion more seriously when they started to think about having children. (Courtesy of Julianne Kanter/via JTA)
February 16, 2017, 2:29 am
Intermarried couples form community with each other — outside the synagogue
Since even a welcoming congregation can still be intimidating, new inclusive efforts hold ‘salons’ in the safe space of couples’ homes
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: A 2011 marriage ceremony of an interfaith couple from Boston. (Courtesy Jared and Laurie Berezin)
October 26, 2016, 11:17 pm
Study: 1 in 4 US intermarried couples wed by Jewish officiant
Brandeis University report says 91 percent of weddings where both spouses are Jewish conducted by Jewish clergy only
By JTA
'JewAsian' authors Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt (Matthew Zimmerman Banderas)
October 13, 2016, 3:06 am
With Jewish-Asian marriages on the rise, academic couple takes on subject close to home
Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt’s new book tackles assumptions about Jewish identities of intermarried families and their children
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative wedding photo. (JTA)
May 26, 2016, 4:31 am
Interfaith couple complains against US hotel that wouldn’t host wedding
Owner of Illinois inn told couple planning non-religious service that he would only allow Christian ceremony
By JTA
Illustrative photo of rabbis on stage at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College's 2013 graduation ceremony (Courtesy of RRC/Jewish Reconstructionist Communities/JTA)
January 11, 2016, 1:52 am
7 rabbis quit Reconstructionists over non-Jewish partner policy
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College voted in September to allow applicants to have non-Jewish partners
By JTA
From "Jews & Arabs Kiss" video by Time Out Tel Aviv. (YouTube)
January 7, 2016, 6:25 pm
Arabs and Jews protest ‘book ban’ with a kiss
Video counters Education Ministry’s barring of Israeli-Palestinian love story from a curriculum reading list
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative screen capture of a Honeymoon Israel interfaith couples trip to Israel. (YouTube/Avi Rubel)
November 8, 2015, 11:33 am
Visiting Israel, interfaith couples find Jewish roots
A ‘Birthright for marrieds,’ Honeymoon Israel program brings newlyweds to the Jewish state for a look at their heritage
By Stuart Winer
Jason Segel appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at the Rockefeller Center in New York City, on July 29, 2015. (Theo Wargo/NBC/Getty Images for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon/AFP)
July 31, 2015, 10:17 am
Jason Segel describes childhood as Jewish outsider
‘At Christian school you’re the Jewish kid, and at Hebrew school you’re the Christian kid,’ says actor from mixed-religion family
By Andrew Tobin
Philanthropist Jamie Cooper-Hohn (screen capture: YouTube)
November 30, 2014, 4:14 am
$530m. payout in UK’s biggest divorce case
Sir Chris Hohn and Jamie Cooper-Hohn are prolific philanthropists, donating hundreds of millions to children’s causes
By Itamar Sharon and Lazar Berman
Yair Lapid. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)
August 18, 2014, 7:15 pm
Lapid would be ‘bothered’ if son married a non-Jew
After controversial Jewish-Muslim wedding, famously secular finance minister comes out strongly against assimilation
By Lazar Berman
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