Jodi Bromberg
By Jodi Bromberg
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Community From Kamala and Doug to Biden’s grandkids, it’s time to be thankful for interfaith families
You probably know by now that Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris and First Husband-Elect Doug Emhoff are part of a Jewish interfaith couple. And President-Elect Joe Biden’s grandkids are all Jewish, after each of his children married a Jewish spouse. Biden’s incoming Chief of Staff Ron Klain is also part of a Jewish interfaith couple, making…
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Letters Letter | A Public Thank You to Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, or The Losses We Sustain When We Think of Jewishness as a Race
I am grateful to Rabbi Angela Buchdahl for her recent Yom Kippur sermon, which touched on the intersectionality of race, ethnicity and religion, and turned on its head the old notion that Jewishness is a race. Instead, Rabbi Buchdahl explained, we should take the more expansive view of Jewishness not as a race, but as…
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Opinion Interfaith Families Are An Essential Part Of Our Community. Stop Excluding Them
Last week, it was widely reported that Israel’s new minister of education likened Jewish intermarriage to the Holocaust. Like many, I felt gut-punched when I read his hateful words. Once again, interfaith families are being used as a proxy and scapegoat for disengagement with Jewish life and Israel. Once again, we hear a Jewish leader…
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