Raising Interfaith Children

by Donna E. Schaper

Raising Interfaith Children describes the trials and tribulations, the joy and satisfaction encountered by a Christian mother and Jewish father who have raised their three children simultaneously in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082451632X
• ISBN13: 9780824516321
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"

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the actual result of the rare upbringing of the 3 children of the Schaper and Goldstein marriage of a Protestant woman minister and her non -practicing Jewish husband, who helped their children learn via Protestant Sunday School and church attendance and preparation for Communion, plus full preparation for Bat and Bar Mitzvahs, was that all 3 chose to practice Judaism as their primary faith as adults. Their dad became a practicing Jew in the process, and ended up as biographer of a well known minister, Wm. Sloane Coffin, in a book published this year by Yale U. Press. The US statistics on children of Jewish- Christian families seem to support this result, since more of them produce Jewish children, and an equal number to those in fully Jewish families.