ILATICE
The December
Dilemma
D
ovetailing with the philos-
ophy of The Half-Jewish
Book: A Celebration is the
Dovetail Institute for Interfaith
Family Resources, a nonprofit,
national organization that explores
all aspects of Judaism and
Christianity that dovetail together.
With the celebrations of
Chanukah and Christmas
approaching, this is definitely the
group's "busy season."
The October/November issue of
its magazine, Dovetail: A
agenda, and we push no one
approach to interfaith marriage.
We provide the couples, their fam-
ilies and friends with nonjudg-
mental educational and network-
ing venues and opportunities."
The current issue of the maga-
zine offers a catalog of greeting
cards combining Chanukah and
Christmas motifs, and a commen-
tary from a Christian minister who
prefers a complete separation
between the two holidays.
Journal by and for
Jewish/Christian Families,
offers suggestions
and
.
insights to anyone in or
from dual-faith families on
getting the most out of the
holiday season. That
includes everything from
Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur to the start of the
secular New Year.
Realizing the need for
"something with a nonde-
nominational agenda," a
small group of people
involved in half-Jewish fami- Intermarried journalists Steve and Cokie
lies organized the Dovetail
Roberts gave the keynote speech at the 1998
Institute in 1992, spearhead- conference of the Dovetail Institute for
ed by Joan Hawxhurst, a
Interfaith Family Resources.
Methodist woman newly
married to a Jew.
The bimonthly magazine, with
The institute, based in Boston,
1,000
subscribers, is $25 a year,
Ky., a Louisville suburb, is housed
and
is
published in Kalamazoo,
in the home of its current execu-
Mich., with 11 rabbis and ministers
tive director, Mary Rosenbaum,
serving on its board of advisers.
who is Catholic. Others on the
"This issue really emphasizes
board of directors are her husband
Chanukah
and Christmas because
of 37 years, Dr. S.N. Rosenbaum,
they
are
both
celebrations of liber-
professor emeritus in Judaic
ation,"
said
Rosenbaum.
The insti-
Studies at the University of
Don't
Light
the
tute's
pamphlet,
Kentucky; Hawxhurst, now presi-
Menorah So Close to the Christmas
dent of Dovetail Publishing; and
Tree, can be read on the group's
Rabbi Allen Secher of Chicago,
web site at www.dovetailpublish-
owner of the Good Co., which
ing.com , or is available by calling
publishes certificates for weddings,
1-800-530-1596. Also excerpted
baby-namings, and other Jewish
on
the Web site is an entertaining
rituals.
take
on the "December dilemma"
"The Dovetail Institute respects
Gary Magenta. Titled
by
humorist
the right and need of Jewish and
Leave a Plate of Matzoh for Santa,
Christian partners to explore the
it describes how he grew up in an
spiritual and religious dimensions
Italian/Jewish household. II
of an interfaith household," said
Ms. Rosenbaum. "We have no
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