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He’s from Long Island. She’s from Zambia. How do they create a Jewish home, even when in Kosovo?  What's it like for everyone when a Catholic mom chooses to raise their children Jewish, even sending them to a Jewish Day School? Read Gary and Mary's Story |
Welcome! The Jewish Discovery Institute is Boston's resource for interfaith couples, families and individuals interested in learning about Conservative Judaism. We offer a wide variety of programs for interfaith couples, families and individuals interested in learning more about Judaism. From basic introduction experiences to in-depth conversion programs, from support groups to training seminars, we hope all of our programs add meaning, understanding, and comfort. JDI Misson |
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Date: Sunday, June 13th
Location: Back Bay Events Center in Boston Jewish Discovery Institute is happy to partner with CJP on a new and exciting event for young adults. Jewbilee: A Festival of Jewish Learning, Arts and Culture for the Next Generation will be a gathering of hundreds of young adults from diverse backgrounds exploring Jewish learning. Exciting workshops and sessions will be led by local dynamic teachers addressing topics such as Israel, the environment, text study, art, movement, music and more! An Expo of local organizations will be on hand sharing information about the wide variety of Jewish learning opportunities for young adults in the Boston area! Stay tuned for more information! |
by Julie Wiener For decades, as the Reform movement reached out, Conservative leaders stuck to a harder line, hoping that by doing so they could discourage Jews from marrying gentiles. Today, as the once-dominant American Jewish movement faces shrinking membership rolls and new leadership, that hard line seems to be dramatically softening. READ MORE I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member,” Groucho Marx said, famously and apparently over and over again. For years, understandably, that was the Jewish world’s approach to outsiders. Go away. Don’t bother me. And when the Jewish community was lucky, it was left alone. When the outside world came pounding on the walls of the ghetto, it was rarely to marry the Jews who lived behind them. More recently, as recently as just a few decades ago, often the Jews who married non-Jews chose to leave the Jewish world behind them, their marriages part of a sometimes unconscious exit strategy.Things have changed. Now Jews and non- Jews mingle, seamlessly part of the same world. Now when Jews and non-Jews marry it’s not a statement of anything except love. READ MORE
For Ruth Nemzoff, member of Temple Emanuel in Newton, engaging the many faces of Jewish families can add energy to our communities.
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