Making a Successful Jewish Interfaith Marriage: The Jewish Outreach Institute Guide to Opportunities, Challenges and Resources
Straightforward and nonjudgmental advice for dating couples, partners,
husbands and wives, in-laws, counselors and others.
Interfaith relationships are commonplace; the challenges that go along with them are not. An interfaith couple will have to confront tough questions, yet it’s often difficult to find answers, especially when traditional sources of help—family, friends, clergy and counselors—are unable or unwilling to understand the problems.
From a Jewish perspective, this book guides interfaith couples at any stage of their relationship—from dating and engagement, to the wedding and marriage—and the people who are affected by their relationship in any way, including their families and counselors who work with interfaith couples.
While making no judgments or dictating answers, and supporting individual choice, topics covered include:
- What is an intermarriage?
- Why do people intermarry?
- When do you bring up the subject of religion?
- What is conversion and is it necessary?
- When do you discuss and decide how children will be raised?
- … and much more!
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Book details
- Author
- Kerry Olitzky, Joan Littman
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Family & Relationships › Marriage & Long-Term Relationships
- Topics
- Jewish relationships · marriage counseling · interfaith families · religion and marriage · in-law relationships · wedding planning
- ISBN-13
- 9781580231701 (Paperback)9781683361862 (Hardcover)
About the author
RABBI KERRY M. OLITZKY is a Reform rabbi, educator, and administrator, and the author of over 100 books.
Named one of the 50 Leading Rabbis in North America by Newsweek, Olitzky served on the faculty and administration of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion for 15 years and as vice president of the Wexner Heritage Foundation. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of South Florida, an M.H.L. and ordination from Hebrew Union College, and a D.H.L. earned in 1985.
When not writing, Olitzky serves as executive director of Big Tent Judaism, a national organization dedicated to bringing Judaism to interfaith families and the unaffiliated. That work with community and belonging runs throughout his writing.
Kerry lives in North Brunswick, NJ.