When A Child Intermarries 18Forty Podcast

This series is sponsored by our friends Sarala and Danny Turkel.

In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to a son who almost intermarried, the mother of a daughter who married a non-Jew, and Huvi and Brian, a couple whose intermarriage turned into a Jewish marriage—about intergenerational divergence in the context of intermarriage.

This Pesach, we have the opportunity to reflect on our childhoods and how, through our families, all of our “beginnings” stretch back far beyond our own lifetimes.

How can a Jewish family navigate the prospect of intermarriage?How can we maintain familial bonds with members of interfaith families?What ruptures can happen within families and communities when a Jew dates, or marries, a non-Jew, and how can those ruptures be repaired?Tune in to hear a conversation about how an apparent disaster doesn’t need to be the end of the story.

First interview: 16:16
Second interview: 50:23
Third Interview: 1:17:23

References:

“Big Gedalia Goomber” by Uncle Moishy

Arukh HaShulchan, Yoreh De'ah 345 by Yechiel Michel Epstein

“Absolute Beginners” by David Bashevkin

Genesis 12

“Family Ties” by David Bashevkin

Shevet Sefer, Yoreh Deah 108 by Simcha Bunim Schreiber