Below you will find a wealth of resources to enhance your Keruv program. Just click on the blue links.
- 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