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What can be done to help raise children in an interfaith
home?
A supremely important thing to remember is that the responsibilities
of childrearing in interfaith homes, particularly in the
area of religious development, is best if shared. A supportive
environment, one that recognizes the diversity of the
family origins, is important particularly when decisions
have been made to raise the children in one religion.
--How can non-Jewish
parents imbue their children with Jewish identities without
losing their own?
Identity is formed from the memory of experience. To shape
the identity of children, parents must naturally share
in their experiences, which often requires calling to
memory the parents' identity-shaping experiences they
themselves had when they were younger. To maintain that
identity, the non-Jewish spouse may choose to continue
to find appropriate venues for those experiences (perhaps
even observing or celebrating vicariously through relatives
or friends) or may want to translate those identity-affirming
experiences into a Jewish context.
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