Susan Katz Miller

LATEST ARTICLES ( 243 )

• What Do Interfaith Families Want From Rabbis?

  

  Photo by Susan Katz Miller Over at the Forward, I published an Op-Ed today as part of a recent series of opinions on rabbinic officiation and interfaith... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Being Both, Being All

  

  By Susan Katz Miller For Being Both, I interviewed Ivan Kruh about his Jewish and Christian and Buddhist family. Today, more than five years later, Ivan... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Passover and Easter 2017 in Interfaith Family Communities

  

  Egg. Photo, Susan Katz Miller Spring is here, and many interfaith families will be celebrating Passover and Easter together. Below, I share with you a round-up... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Interlove Project

  

  I have been following the powerful photography of Colin Boyd Shafer for years now. In the Interlove Project (2014-2016), Shafer created 50 black and white... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Spring Quilt of Interfaith Connections (2017)

  

  (Last year, many people found this guide to spring celebrations helpful. So, I have updated the post with dates for 2017). In eight years of writing this... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Tu BiShvat & “Intermarriage” News

  

  Tu Bishvat Photo: Susan Katz MillerLast weekend, my husband and I celebrated Tu BiShvat, the Jewish new year of the trees. We sang songs about trees in Hebrew,... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2017 FAMILY, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Families, Interfaith Activists

  

  Women’s March, Washington DC, 2017 Photo Susan Katz MillerOn Saturday, my daughter and I joined in the fierce and ecstatic experience of the Women’s March on... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Muslim Women, Interfaith Families

  

  Noor Ibrahim: Contribute to her researchBeing Both tells the stories of a few Muslims in interfaith relationships, and a number of additional guest bloggers hav... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Kids: Carrie Fisher (RIP) and Harrison Ford

  

  I grew up in what feels now like a galaxy far, far, away. In that galaxy, interfaith kids were few and far between, and we didn’t talk about the fact that we... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2016 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Dance of Hanukkah and Christmas: 8 Tips for Interfaith Families

  

  Photo, Susan Katz MillerThe Woolf Institute in Cambridge, England, works on Jewish, Muslim, and Christian relations. They asked me to write on how interfaith... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2016 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Intermarried, Interfaith, Intercultural, Interschminter?

  

  This week, the (Jewish Daily) Forward published my opinion piece on why we should move away from the term “intermarried” to describe interfaith families. I... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Kol Nidre… at Old St. Patrick’s Church

  

  Every November, I find myself thinking about how to sustain the inspiration many of us find at annual interfaith Thanksgiving services. Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2016 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Pioneer: Rabbi Joseph Rauch

  

  Yesterday, I drove my father to the house where he was born, for our annual Thanksgiving gathering. I woke early this morning and started sifting through old... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2016 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Rabbi, a Minister, a Wedding

  

  Thirty years ago, a rabbi and a minister co-officiated at my interfaith wedding. My husband and I felt strongly that both of our religions should be... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2016 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Families in the Jewish World

  

  Philadelphia Sukkah, Leslie Sudock How are interfaith families creating a new Jewish reality in America? That was the theme at the Interfaith Opportunity... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2016 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Death in My Interfaith Family

  

  Mom, Me, 1961My mother, Martha Legg Katz, died last month. I have been uncharacteristically quiet here, in public, since she fell ill in the heat of August. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2016 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• High Holy Days: Interfaith Connections

  

  Over the past seven years, in over 300 posts, I have written about many different aspects of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, from the context of an interfaith... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2016 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• An Interfaith Family’s Call to Action

  

  Today, I am honored to post a new essay from guest blogger Rorri Geller-Mohamed, who helped create the JewishMuslimFamilies facebook page. For more on Rorri, se... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2016 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• In Recife, Brazil: The First Synagogue in the New World

  

  In honor of the Rio Olympics, I thought I would re-post this essay, written seven years ago, in the year I launched this blog. Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2016 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Young Interfaith Adults, In Real Life

  

  What happens when you grow up with interfaith education in an interfaith families community, and then go out into the real world? Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2016 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY