Interfaith Family

monkey41 · November 2015

Anyone else in an interfaith relationship? How do you plan to handle raising your kid?

I'm Episcopal and DH is Reform Jewish. We are members of the Jewish Temple and not currently the Church. Neither of us is ready to go all one way or the other for our kids just yet. We read a few books that talk about it, but would love to hear from others dealing with something like this now!

Thanks!

foxa319 · November 2015

My husband is Jewish and I'm Presbyterian. We had an interfaith wedding that included Traditions from both. Our son had a Bris on his 8th day of life. We will be celebrating Christmas Easter etc with my family and and Jewish holidays with my husband. My husband and I are not very active with a temple or church anymore but ds grandparents are welcome to take him to church and/ or temple and he can decide what he believes when he's old enough! Both our families are very active within church and temple and theyball agree to expose ds and LO to everything! It's really nice celebrating both sides and having good families who understand and agree with our decisions!

monkey41 · November 2015

Awesome! Hopefully we can stay that laid back about it all. We had an interfaith wedding as well and celebrate all holidays together and everyone is fine about it. I think we may hit some snags though as we face bar/bat mitzvahs and baptisms. DH definitely wants our children in Hebrew School. I have no qualms with that so long as they are also exposed to my family's beliefs. We've also read some tough stories about children who were pretty confused when they were raised in two traditions that have some important differences. I expect it makes it hard for them to decide on just one faith if they want to later on. I hope it stays as easy for your family as it sounds!

goldie987 · November 2015

**Lurking from June16**

I was raised catholic but converted to Judaism before marrying my husband (who is also Jewish). IMO, having a single religion to raise your children in is important and we plan to raise our children 100% Jewish. That being said, we don't intend to cut them out of christmas with my family, we just won't celebrate it in our home. I spoke with our rabbi and he said he's seen a lot of success with systems like this. Essentially, kids can differentiate between what "we" celebrate and what "they" celebrate from fairly early on. They can join in others celebrations (like you do for birthdays that aren't yours) but they know that it isn't "their" celebration. This also works fairly well in my family because they aren't very religious.

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