Susan Katz Miller

LATEST ARTICLES ( 243 )

• Easter as Metaphor: The Rabbi Explains

  

  Every year, I find myself trying to explain how a nice Jewish girl can relate to Easter. Today, the spring sunshine is illuminating the daffodils, as you can se... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Passover, Good Friday, and Easter: When Interfaith Holidays Converge

  

  This year, I am fielding calls from reporters wanting to know how we handle the dilemma of Passover starting on Good Friday. I know that, especially for young... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Identity of Interfaith Children: Downton Abbey Edition

  

  I don’t always blog about fictional interfaith families, but when I do, it’s because they’re discussing the identity of interfaith children. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Let Us Check More Than One Religion Box

  

  Imagine for a moment that you are a teenager, arriving at college for your first year, and that you come from an interfaith family. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Strange Wives: The Paradox of Biblical Intermarriage

  

  Abraham, Moses, Ruth, David, Samson, Joseph, Esther, Solomon.What do they all have in common?They were intermarried. Thus begins Strange Wives: The Paradox of... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Families, Jewish Communities: Spring Thaw

  

  Do you hear a rumbling, creaking, sighing noise, like an iceberg melting? That’s the sound of policies designed to freeze out interfaith families, shifting and... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Catholic, a Muslim, a Jewish Education, an Interfaith Family

  

  Kristen IlyasInterfaith families continue to build bridges–quietly, peacefully, steadily, around the world. For today’s post, I invited guest blogger Kristen... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• New Year’s Interfaith Gratitude: 9 Shout-Outs

  

  In this New Year, at the start of 2015, I want to try to thank everyone who supported Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family in 2014, the... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Christmas and Hanukkah: 2014 Round-Up

  

  This year, Hanukkah ends just in time to give a day of breathing space between the eight-day celebration and the arrival of Christmas. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Millennial Perspective on Interfaith Marriage: When Unchurched Meets Unmosqued

  

  Frank and Medina  (Note: Today I’m pleased to share this space with guest blogger Frank Fredericks.)I recently read Susan Katz Miller’s Being Both, which is a... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• An Interfaith Child’s Hanukkah and Christmas

  

  I wrote this piece for Beacon Broadside, the marvelous blog from my publisher, Beacon Press. To read it on that blog, click here. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Seeing the Sacred in One Interfaith Family

  

  Barbara Mahany describes her new book as a field guide to wonder. The essays in Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred Outside Your Kitchen Door at times bring to... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Family Community, Chicago Style

  

  In writing Being Both, I set out to chronicle the rise of a grassroots movement centered on three great cities with vibrant interfaith family communities: New... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• An Interfaith Family Community Welcomes a Torah

  

  As a parent determined to connect my children to Judaism, as a writer who loves storytelling, as a Jew who grew up wrestling with our ancient texts, I wanted... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Being Both: The Paperback

  

  Opening my first box of paperbacks. Today, Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family comes out in paperback. For me, the paperback release... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Being Both: Paperback Release Events!

  

  Dear readers (interfaith families, interfaith activists, therapists, visionary clergy, theologians, sociologists, historians of religion), I am so very... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• High Holy Days: Now With Great Poetry

  

  Two blog posts this week hinted at the struggle many interfaith families, and many Jewish families, have with the intimidating length and inaccessibility of... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• High Holidays with an Interfaith Community: 2014 Edition

  

  Each year, I have taken to posting a set of links to Jewish High Holiday (or High Holy Day) services designed by and for interfaith families. Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• 7 Ways for Interfaith Families to Find Community

  

  This year, I posted my annual roundup of communities that welcome interfaith families over on my Huffington Post blog, in order to reach more interfaith familie... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Jewish and Muslim: Interfaith Children in Israel

  

  Olive Branches, photo by Martha Legg KatzOne of the reasons I wrote Being Both was to encourage more adult interfaith children to speak out about their own... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY