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Can parents with different religions raise kids successfully?

I spent last week with some close friends and had a good discussion about whether couples with differing religions can successfully raise a family. Their take was it would be difficult for the children. As a family counselor, I have seen about every constellation of religions and parents imaginable. Those with the same religion, those …

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What happens when you fall in love across the religious divide?

In faith, as in love, we leap. We hope. We whisper holy words, words that hold power, maybe magic. We pilgrimage across whatever distances necessary. We experience the ineffable. We understand the unexplainable. We sense in an instant a familiarity, a knowing. We get over and outside of ourselves to connect with something so much …

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Interfaith relationships increasingly accepted

Interfaith relationships are becoming more commonplace with each generation. Religion, for some, is not the deal-breaker for relationships that it once used to be. For some people, religion is a huge part of their culture, as are the orthodox practices they may follow. According to a 2015 Pew Research Center article, it is still commonplace …

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Conservatives Welcome Non-Jews — But Will They Be Second-Class Citizens In Synagogue

When Holly first kissed Jeff on a dance floor back in the 1990s, she was a college freshman from Staten Island and he was a frat brother from Long Island. They both had New York accents. He thought the petite brunette was Jewish. But Holly Rizzuto was and still is an Italian Catholic, named Holly …

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How to cope when children seek a new faith

When Aida Vazin was 15, she decided her mother’s Baha’i faith was not right for She spent time studying Islam, her grandparents’ religion, but ultimately decided organized religion wasn’t for her. When it comes to spirituality and faith, she feels more comfortable with Eastern philosophies on how to live a healthy lifest What made Vazin’s …

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