Keruv Resources

Below you will find a wealth of resources to enhance your Keruv program.

• The Vision: Our Synagogue in Five Years by Rabbi Charles Simon & Rabbi Kerry Olitzky
• The Facts: What is Keruv?  from the FJMC Website
• The Feeling: A Keruv Consultant Speaks from the Heart

Keruv Stories – Videos

• FJMC Convention (2013) Presentation by Robin & Chudi Ekpunobi and Rochelle and Mike Sullivan, telling their stories
• My So Called Jewish Life  John Donovon tells his story as a supportive non-Jewish spounse with candor and humor
• Rabbi Daniel Liben  Temple Israel, Natick, MA
• Rabbi Leonard Gordon  Mishkan Tefila, Chestnut Hills, MA

Welcoming

• How to Create a Welcoming Website (YouTube video by the FJMC)
• Synagogue Website Language Suggestions
• Creating a Culture of Welcoming  Listen to this teleseminar sponsored by the KERUV Committee of the Conservative Movement (FJMC, RA, USCJ, WLCJ)

Sensitizing Educators

• Fact Sheet
• Teachers Schooled on Needs of Interfaith Families  New Jersey Jewish News (article)

Writings of Rabbi Charles Simon, Executive Director, FJMC

• Congregations & Intermarried: Implicit or Complicit (based on bimah practices survey)
• Children from Intermarried Families: Religious Schools Confront the Challenge
• Journeys: Stories of Interfaith Families
• Responding to Intermarriage
• Understanding Grandparents
• Keruv Paper #1 – Creating a Language of Inclusion
• Keruv Paper #2 – Creating and Guiding a KERUV Committee
• Keruv Paper #3 – Creating a Synagogue Based KERUV Initiative
• Keruv Paper #4 – Keruv and the Implications for Synagogue Policy

Newspaper Articles

• Conservatives Walking Intermarriage Tightrope:  Jewish Week, New York City
• Promoting Men’s Jewish Engagement:  Jewish Journal, Los Angeles
• JTS Intermarriage Workshop – Signals Change on the Issue:  Jewish Week, New York City
• New Norm for Conservative Judaism?  Look Who’s Raising Jews:  The Forward

KERUV Writings

• A Letter to My Children
• In Search of a Voice
• A Rabbi’s Child Intermarries
• Earning a New Image
• Explaining Judaism to Your Non-Jewish Friends
• Dear Doctor Phil – Synagogue Newsletter Column

Studies / Demographics

• Intermarriage and Jewish Journeys in the United States
• Website of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University
• Website of the North American Jewish Data Bank