Jewish Gentile Couples

D’vora is an Israeli mother living in Toronto. When she heard that war had broken out back home last year, she knew she had to go and help. Her non-Jewish husband, Teddy, supported her 100%. Hear the…

Sam and Valeria Botbol are a Jewish-Gentile couple living in Southern California. They both grew up in Latin American cultures with many similarities but with different experiences and ideas around a…

Elize and Rob Berman from South Africa are navigating increasing antisemitism as an intermarried couple. We invite you to listen to their inspiring story.

Marisa and Andrew are a Jewish-Gentile couple in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their eyes are wide open to the wonderful cross-cultural richness of their country, home and marriage. It's natural for Ma…

The journey to find spiritual harmony can feel as distant as east is from the west. Dave and Jennifer Goldstein made it and found one true God. His parents were Jewish academics living as Buddhists i…

Aaron is from Israel and England. Becky is from German-speaking Switzerland. They speak to one another in different languages but that doesn't keep them from relating with deep appreciation and mutua…

Martin Goldsmith's family endured anti-Semitism in Germany, America and England. His wife, Elizabeth endured the hardship of a Communist Chinese internment camp for children. Yet both of them found p…

Simone and Mark are a couple of Millennials, now happily married. Their wedding was a filled with the typical cross-cultural challenges and interesting ways to navigate them. That's their story. You…

Sahar is an Israeli Sabra and Maria is his thoughtful and gracious wife from Sweden. These two Millennials couldn't be from more different cultural worlds. However, they've found joy in daily discove…

The story of Mike and Victoria Stele has a little Rom-Com, adventure and spiritual grounding to it. How do a Jewish guy and a Latina/Filipina Christian girl come together through a complex of cross-c…

D'vora and Teddy are a mixed ethnicity couple from Ethiopia. He was raised through separation and hardship by his grandparents and reunited to his mother in Canada at age 12. D'vora's family are Ethi…

Irina is Jewish and raised in Ukraine where the Jewish intermarriage rate was above 70%. She followed her passion for things cross-cultural to become a world class performer within a Ukrainian Irish…

Ephraim Radner and Annette Brownlee are an intermarried couple and scholars serving at Wycliffe College, an evangelical graduate school of theology at the University of Toronto. Jewish identity, the …

How do two people from different parts of Asia, one Jewish and the other Korean find spiritual harmony? Karl and Kristen deSouza came a long way geographically and spiritually to find oneness in thei…

He's a Black Christian and she's a traditional Jewish woman. They're both from St. Louis. They both experienced ethnic prejudice before and after they were married to one another. They also found spi…

He is a Gentile "none" raised with some exposure to Catholic traditions and culture. Her parents lived and practiced traditional Judaism in a near north suburb above New York City. They met while at…

Isaac Brickner interviews Tuvya Zaretsky about the background for the Jewish-Gentile couples podcasts. What is happening within global Jewry that makes this formerly ignored topic so relevant today? …

Finding spiritual harmony requires giving mutual respect within two different cultures. Ethnicity is an important and unchangeable feature of ancestry. It is sort of our "brand," like the different h…

Susan Wilder is all about Jewish New Jersey! Her husband Christian is a professor of theology and Old testament. They found life and spirituality together through common faith and very different cult…