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Interfaith Marriage and Relationship Resources

When you marry someone of another faith, you're not just joining lives with them. You're joining lives with their families and friends. Our contributors have addressed every kind of relationship you could imagine: interracial, Jewish-Muslim, gay, post-divorce, stepfamilies. Learn from their experiences in InterfaithFamily.com's articles, resources and links.

Recommended Interfaith Marriage and Relationship Articles

• Opening Up Communication in an Interfaith Relationship by Paula Brody
• Perfecting the Art of Arguing: Jewish Women and Their Non-Jewish Mates By Sue Eisenfeld
• Issues Interfaith Families Confront, Plus Six Tips for Couples Considering Intermarriage By Debbie Whitehill
• The Perfect Recipe by Heather Subba
• Rationing Minutes: Maintaining a Long-Distance Interfaith Relationship by Erin Russ and Matt Scherzer

• Love and Marriage
• Extended Family Relationships
• Divorce and Step-Family Issues
• Multiracial and Multicultural Families
• Jewish-Muslim Relationships
• Gay Interfaith Relationships

For previous Web Magazine issues on interfaith marriage and relationships, click on the links below:

• Issue 213 (July 2007) - Divorce
• Issue 210 (June 2007) - Coming Out About Your Interfaith Relationship
• Issue 207 (April 2007) - Communication in Interfaith Relationships
• Issue 203 (February 2007) - Differences in Interfaith Issues Through the Life Cycle
• Issue 201 (January 2007) - Latino-Jewish Relationships and Hispanic Jews
• Issue 192 (October 2006) - Attending Services of Another Faith
• Issue 189 (August 2006) - Non-Jewish Relatives
• Issue 188 (July 2006) - Hindu-Jewish Relationships
• Issue 185 (June 2006) - Multicultural Relationships
• Issue 176 (January 2006) - Divorce
• Issue 169 (October 2005) - Extended Family Relationships
• Issue 147 (November 2004) - Multicultural Interfaith Families: Jewish-Asian Families
• Issue 146 (November 2004) - Multicultural Interfaith Families: Jewish-Hindu and Jewish-Muslim Couples
• Issue 145 (October 2004) - Multicultural Interfaith Families
• Issue 125 (January 2004) - Extended Family Relationships
• Issue 124 (December 2003) - Extended Family Relationships
• Issue 119 (October 2003) - Longterm Interfaith Relationships
• Issue 116 (August 2003) - Interfaith Relationships
• Issue 112 (June 2003) - Gay Interfaith Relationships
• Issue 111 (June 2003) - Gay Interfaith Relationships
• Issue 108 (May 2003) - Jewish-Muslim Relationships
• Issue 107 (April 2003) - Jewish-Muslim Relationships
• Issue 105 (March 2003) - Multicultural and Multiracial Families
• Issue 104 (March 2003) - Multicultural and Multiracial Families
• Issue 39 (June 2000) - Longterm Interfaith Marriages
• Issue 38 (June 2000) -  Working Things Out In Interfaith Marriages

Interfaith Marriage and Relationship Discussion Boards

• Interfaith Marriage

Additional Resources on Interfaith Marriage and Relationships

Websites

Visit our partner MyJewishLearning.com for more information on marriage and relationships:

• Challenges Facing Interfaith Couples Before and After Marriage
• Overview: Contemporary Issues in Marriage
• Families, Friends and Strangers
• Making It Holy

Books

• Friedland, Ronnie and Case, Edmund, ed. The Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life: An InterfaithFamily.com Handbook. Jewish Lights, 2001. Read a review.
• Cowan, Paul and Cowan, Rachel. Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage. Penguin USA, 1989. A classic on interfaith marriage and raising children in a home where two different religions are practiced. Read our review.
• Crohn, Joel. Mixed Matches: How to Create Successful Interracial, Interethnic, and Interfaith Relationships. Fawcett, 1995. Read our review .
• Glaser, Gabrielle. Strangers to the Tribe: Portraits of Interfaith Marriage. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. Read our review.
• Kaplan, Jane. Interfaith Families: Personal Stories of Jewish-Christian Intermarriage. Praeger Publishers, 2004. Read our review .
• Keen, Jim. Inside Intermarriage. URJ Press, 2006. Read our review. (A 15% discount is available to InterfaithFamily.com subscribers if you purchase the book through the URJ Press website. If you sign up today, you will receive the discount code in your confirmation email.)
• Petsonk, Judy and Remsen, Jim, et al. The Intermarriage Handbook : A Guide for Jews & Christians Morrow, 1991.
• Reuben, Steven Carr. Making Interfaith Marriage Work: A Nonjudgmental Guide to Coping with the Spiritual, Emotional, and Psychological Issues. Prima, 1994. Read our review.

If you know of other interfaith marriage and relationship resources--or if you'd like to see additional resources on a particular aspect of interfaith marriage and relationships--please email us at network@interfaithfamily.com and let us know what you'd like us to provide.

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