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The following booklets are available in Adobe PDF format for purchase. Upon purchase, you will be directed to the PDF document. From there, please save the document to your computer for future use.

Big Book of Christmas and Hanukkah

Big Book of Christmas and Hanukkah
Celebrations for Interfaith Families by People
Who've Lived Them.

Contents

  • The Holiday Nexus: Asking Questions, Finding Answers
  • Making Hanukkah and Christmas Your Own
  • Holidays Outside the Box
  • Holiday Stew, Not Melting Pot
  • Always Coming Out
  • Leave a Plate of Matzo for Santa
  • Over the River and Across the Highway
  • Composed on a Braided Base
  • Christmas with Jewish Children
  • Saying “No” to Santa
  • “I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas”: A Jewish Observation
  • Five Candles and the Sound of Joy
  • Interfaith Winter Holidays: Insights and Reflections
  • One Family’s Answer
  • Our Family’s Evolving Holiday Traditions
  • From One Grandparent To Another
  • God Forgive My Christmas Tree
  • The Best of Both Worlds
  • The Night Before Christmas: Revised Edition

Price: $ 17.95
Item ID: BBCH

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Book of Easter and Passover

Book of Easter and Passover

Contents

  • It’s Easter or Passover, not “Eastover”
  • Tension or Teaching
  • Surviving Passover: A Carb Lover’s Tale
  • Culture and Theology in a Convert’s Family
  • God’s Multiple Personality
  • Pesach and Pascha
  • Transformations
  • The Fifth Question
  • Awaiting Resurrection
  • Guide to Passover Observance

Price: $ 17.95
Item ID: BEP

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What About the Children

What About the Children
Interfaith Parents Decide A collection of discussions, articles, and essays from a variety of perspectives

Content

  • Part 1: How to Decide
  • Choosing Your Child’s Religion: A Methodology in Five Part
  • Choosing Child’s Religion: Continuing the Conversation
  • One Community’s Choices
  • Part 2: Choosing a Single Faith
  • To Create a Jewish Child
  • Finding Our Road: Paths to Religious Identity
  • Keeping Faith with Our Faiths: Another Approach
  • Part 3: Choosing Both
  • A Different Path: Jewish and Protestant
  • A Matter of Trust: Catholic and Jewish
  • Their Own Paths: Jewish and Catholic
  • Walking Two Paths: Another Way of Making the Journey (Protestant/Jewish)
  • Raising Children in Both: A Reassuring Look
  • Part 4: Choosing a Third Option
  • The Interfaith Dilemma: Two Religions, One Child (Unitarian Universalism)
  • Progressive Christianity and Interfaith Families
  • A Progressive Protestant View of “Messianic Judaism”
  • Compromise with Integrity? “Hebrew” Christianity
  • Secular Judaism

Price: $ 22.45
Item ID: WAC

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New Beginnings

New Beginnings
Welcoming Ceremonies for Babies of Interfaith Parents

Contents

  • Jewish Ritual for a Boy with a Christian Parent
  • Jewish Ritual for a Child with a Christian Parent
  • Choosing a name
  • Single-Faith Inclusive Jewish Ritual
  • NonDenom. Ritual
  • Glossary
  • Catholic Ritual for a Child with a Jewish Parent
  • Jewish/Catholic Ceremony
  • Ritual in the Methodist Tradition
  • 2-Denominational Ritual
  • Combined Ritual II

Price: $ 13.45
Item ID: NB

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Let's Have Fun Today

Let's Have Fun Today
Activities for Children of Interfaith Parents

Contents

  • Begin the New Year
  • Purim & Mardi Gras
  • Weddings
  • Water
  • Groups
  • Shabbat
  • Bread
  • Peace
  • Passover & Easter
  • Faith Overlaps
  • Creatures
  • Speech and Spirit
  • Harvest
  • Family Feasts
  • Christmas & Hanukkah

Price: $ 9.95
Item ID: LHFT

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Coming of Age

Coming of Age
Rites of Passage for Children of Interfaith Parents

Contents

  • Planning an Interfaith Coming-of-Age Ritual
  • Nondenominational Coming of Age Ceremony
  • Combined Jewish and Christian Ritual
  • Bar/Bat Mitzvah for Child with a Christian Parent
  • Jewish Coming-of-Age Rite for Child with Interfaith Parents
  • Bat Mitzvah with Rabbi and Priest
  • IFFP Coming of Age Program
  • IFFP Group Coming of Age Ceremony
  • Creating Innovative Rituals in an Interfaith Home

Price: $ 13.45
Item ID: COA

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In the Midst

In the Midst of Life
Special Interfaith Aspects of Death and Dying

Contents

  • A Comparison of Jewish and Christian Burial and Mourning
  • Ties That Unbind: Questions for Interfaith Couples

Price: $ 8.95
Item ID: IML

 

 
People's of the Book

Peoples of the Book
Muslims with Jewish or Christian Partners

Contents

  • When Chrstians and Muslims Marry
  • Comparison Chart
  • Raising Children Muslim and Catholic
  • Imam Adil Khan
  • Christian-Muslim Discussion
  • Raising Children Muslim
  • Imam Faizul Khan
  • Raising Children Muslim-Jewish
  • Presbyterian Statement
  • Muslim Faith, Protestant Culture
  • Imam Yahya Hendi
  • Glossary
  • Resources

Price: $ 13.45
Item ID: POB

 

 


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