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Book SynopsisIf your relationship needs less oy and more joy, this is the book for you!
Trade Review"If you are intermarried, have a family member or friend who is, or are interested in how intermarriage affects Jewish communities, this book has something to offer to you. The author’s optimism, good humour, and belief in each person’s capacity to find fulfillment will charm any reader willing to approach its important subject with an open mind." -- David Roytenberg *
Canadian Jewish Record *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction A Acceptance Action Adam and Eve Aggravation Antisemitism Assertiveness A$$holes Assimilation Attentiveness Attitude B B’shert Backgrounds Beauty Belief, Behavior, Belonging (bonus: B. Mitzvah) Bible Blending Borrowing Bridges C Calm Camp Children (and bonus “C”—circumcision) Communication/Chrismukkah Community Compromise Conversion Cost Creativity Culture D Daily Life (tasks, what you want daily life to look like) Dancing Daring Death Definition Destiny Divorce DIY Dogma Dreams E Eagerness Eats Education Elation Elevation Emotion Emotional Load Energy/Excitement Equality/Equity The Everyday F Feelings/Fear Fellowship Festive Season Fidelity Forgiveness Frankness Freedom Friendship Fun Future Planning G Garbage Gefilte Fish Giving God Goodness Google Grandchildren Grief Grudges/Grievances Guilt H Happiness Healing Hearing Helping Holidays Honoring Hope Hostility Hosting Hurting I Ignorant Important Inclusivity/Inclusion (featuring InterfaithFamily.com) Indivisibility Industriousness Insistence Intensity Invitations Irritation Isolation J Jazz Jealousy Jerks Jesus Jokes Journey Joy Judaism/Jewishness Juggling Justice K Kaleidoscope Kaput Karma Keva/kavannah Kids Kindness Kings Klunkiness Knowledge Kosher L Lean In Learning Legalities Listening Literature Losing It Loss and Letting Go Love Luggage M Marriage Meaning Mentsch Mindfulness Mistakes/Messes Mixed Moments Money Moses Mystery N Nag Nationhood Needs versus Wants Negativity/Naysaying Negotiation Never Say Never No Nos Nope “Normal” Nuptials O Officiating Ok Openness Opportunity Oppression Optimism Ordained Originality Oscillation Oxygen P Pandering Parenting Parents Partnership Passion Paternalism Patrilineal Descent Poetry Possibility Principles Q Quagmires and Quandaries Quality Quantity Quarrelling Queer Questioning Quicksand Quid Pro Quo Quirks Quotable R Reaching Out Realism Reason(ableness) Reconnection Relatives Relativity Renewal Resilience Respect Rules S Sensitivity Serendipity/Syncronicity Sex/Sweetness/Softness Sharing Shavuot Shopping - Stuff Shopping - Synagogues Silliness Stifled Struggling T Talk Therapy Talmud Teaching Terminology The Attic Tikkun Olam Tradition Truth Turtle Island Tzedakah U Ugliness Undercutting Understanding Unity Universality Unlearning Unorthodox Unpopular Urgency Utopia V Vacations Values Vantage Point/Viewpoint Variability Veils Venting/Ventilation Vicious Circles Victories Visibility Vision W Wake up Calls Wandering Weddings White Dresses Whiteness Wisdom Wishlists Wokeness Wondering Worldliness X/Y X Marks the Spot Xenophobia X-factor Xmas X-rays Yearning Yelling Yiddish Yom Kippur You Z Zamboni Zany Zealous Zero Tolerance Zigzag (rhizome) Zipper (seam) Zodiac Zone Zoom Zygote Appendix: December Delights: Creating and Crushing Chrismukkah Bibliography
