Im a Jewish synagogue official, and my denomination has lots of programs and literature for interfaith families. Doesn that cover adult children of intermarriage?
Many Jewish outreach workers point with justifiable pride to the huge advances some spiritual and secular Jewish groups — not all — have made since 1990 in terms of welcoming interfaith couples and their young children. That’s great. It’s wonderful. But those programs are designed for our interfaith parents. We as individuals are not an interfaith couple — we are the “product” of our intermarried parents. The adult children of intermarriage and other descendants of intermarriage have very different needs and issues from our intermarried parents. When we arrive at a Jewish group, and are invited to an interfaith couples group, it’s like inviting us — even if they are our age — to spend an evening with — our parents. When they give us literature about interfaith couples — it’s reading literature about — our parents. We’ve already lived through that entire experience. Outreach to our interfaith parents is not effective outreach to us. 17. I’m a Jewish outreach worker — so what do
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