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Parenting in Interfaith Families Resources

Are you raising children with a partner of another faith? Are you trying to figure how much--if any--religion to share with your children? Learn about a wide variety of approaches to this great challenge from the articles, resources and links on the InterfaithFamily.com website.

Helpful Interfaith Parenting Documents

• Tips for Parents of Children Who Are Intermarrying

Day and Religious School Information:

• Directory of Jewish Day Schools Welcoming Children of Interfaith Families (There is also an older downloadable list of schools.)
• Report: What We Learned from the Interfaith Families and Religious Schools Survey
• Press Release: Survey Finds That Religious Education is Important to Interfaith Families and That Growing Numbers Send Their Children to Jewish Day Schools

Recommended Articles on Parenting in Interfaith Families

• Considering Religion: How Will You Raise Kids? by Lisa A. Goldstein
• Teaching Jewish Values to Your Children by Rabbi Lev Baesh
• The Lifecycle of an Interfaith Relationship: Raising Teenagers by S. Courtney Nathan
• So You Want to Be a Jewish Mother, but You're Not Jewish? by Rabbi Barbara Penzner
• "But Josh Isn't Religious. Why Should We Raise Our Children as Jews?" by Roberta Calderone

For many more helpful interfaith parenting articles, click on this link to access our archives:

• Parenting

Interfaith Parenting Discussion Boards

• Parenting
• Growing Up in an Interfaith Family
• Extended Family Relationships

Additional Resources on Parenting in Interfaith Families

Websites

Visit our partner MyJewishLearning.com for more information on parenting:

• Overview: Parent/Child Relationships
• Parenting: A View from Jewish Sources
• Battling Stereotypes of the Jewish Mother
• Mixed Families, Jewish Choices

Lifelong Jewish Learning for Parents -- This resource from the Union for Reform Judaism includes information on bedtime rituals, holidays for children and more.

Modern Jewish Mom -- A website that demonstrates how Jewish traditions can be wonderful parenting tools.

PJ Library -- Sends Jewish-content books and music on a monthly basis to families with children through age 7.

Books

• Friedland, Ronnie and Case, Edmund, ed. The Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life: An InterfaithFamily.com Handbook. Jewish Lights, 2001. Read a review.
• Abramowitz, Yosef I., and Silverman, Rabbi Susan. Jewish Family & Life: Traditions, Holidays, and Values for Today's Parents and Children Golden, 1998.
• Diamant, Anita, with Cooper, Howard. Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today's Families. HarperCollins, 1996.
• Diamant, Anita and Kushner, Karen. How to Be a Jewish Parent: A Practical Handbook for Family Life. Schocken, 2000. A comprehensive guide that covers all aspects of raising children Jewishly.
• Keen, Jim. Inside Intermarriage. URJ Press, 2006. Read our review.
• King, Andrea. If I'm Jewish and You're Christian, What Are the Kids?: A Parenting Guide for Interfaith Families: A Parenting Guide for Interfaith Families. UAHC, 1993. Read our review.
• Mogel, Wendy. The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children. Penguin Group, 2001. Read our review.

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

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