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Dawn Kepler

Dawn Kepler

Dawn Kepler leads Building Jewish Bridges, a program that embraces Bay Area interfaith families. “Mixed & Matched” offers advice for Jews in interfaith relationships and families. Send letters to dawn@buildingjewishbridges.org.

a small, deep blue pool indoor surrounded by marble
Posted inColumns, Kids & Family, Mixed & Matched, Jewish Life

My mom was Jewish. Can I convert to Judaism?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler October 28, 2019
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Posted inColumns, Kids & Family, Religion, Mixed & Matched, Jewish Life

Why I want to take my daughter to the mikvah with me when I convert

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler September 26, 2019September 26, 2019
a couple sitting together at sunset, seen in silhouette
Posted inColumns, Kids & Family, Religion, Mixed & Matched, Jewish Life

It’s not your son’s girlfriend’s job to seek Judaism. It’s your son’s.

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler September 4, 2019
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Posted inColumns, Kids & Family, Religion, Mixed & Matched, Jewish Life

Does the perfect synagogue exist? In a word: no

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler August 8, 2019August 8, 2019
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Posted inColumns, Religion, Mixed & Matched, Jewish Life

The ‘real’ Jews told me I wasn’t Jewish

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler July 11, 2019
The imposing facade of a synagogue on Santiago, Chile (Photo/Wikimedia-Ignacio Falcon CC BY 1.0)
Posted inColumns, Kids & Family, Religion, Mixed & Matched, Jewish Life

My dad is 100% Jewish, but I’m scared to enter a synagogue

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler June 7, 2019June 10, 2019
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Posted inColumns, Religion, Mixed & Matched, Jewish Life

It hurt to learn I wasn’t considered Jewish or Christian

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler May 15, 2019
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Posted inLifecycles, Community, Columns, Kids & Family, Religion, Mixed & Matched, Jewish Life

Readers offer alternatives for 11-year-old who wants bat mitzvah, but would be starting from scratch

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler April 16, 2019
a generic image of a girl reading from the Torah
Posted inColumns, Kids & Family, Religion, Mixed & Matched, Jewish Life

We haven’t raised her with any religion, but now she wants a bat mitzvah

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler March 26, 2019
Ruth, the heroine of the biblical book that bears her name, was the first convert to Judaism. Painting by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inColumns, Religion, Mixed & Matched, Jewish Life

Why won’t an Orthodox rabbi convert me?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler February 25, 2019

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