Thank you for sharing this.
I am married to a Jew-by-birth… so we don’t live with that exclusion. However, this Jew is not interested in synagogue life or religion; I participate in community as a solo person or with a kid in tow 99% of the time, without a spouse. I am not intermarried technically, but I my husband and I are…
It’s unfortunate you were pushed away. This kind of behavior is what gives all religion a negative feeling, even though there is so much good in having faith. Too many people give up (and it’s understandable). Good on you and your family for keeping strong, having faith and trying again.
This is an incredible piece and encourage you to get this piece out into every single form of media that is available. Your story is familiar and painful and until this outrageous form of rejection stops, we cannot consider ourselves inclusive Jewish communities.
Thank you for never giving up. You have enormous courage and I so admire you for it.
I think the worst of it was when my children were in Hebrew school, the Rabbi’s wife kept telling my children that they were confused because of the dichotomy in our home life. Years later, after all of them were Bar and Bat Mitsvah’d and after most of them had gotten married, they still remember what a horrible time they had in Hebrew School, trying…
