Paul Golin
Jewish Outreach Institute
Telephone: 2127601440
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Paul Golin is associate executive director of the Jewish Outreach Institute (JOI.org), an independent, national, transdenominational organization dedicated to creating a more inclusive Jewish community for intermarried families and disengaged Jews. In pursuit of this aim, JOI works to transform existing institutions and creates new programs. Golin is the co-author, with Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky, of “Twenty Things for Grandparents of Interfaith Grandchildren to Do” (Torah Aura Productions, 2007).
Intermarriage as an Opportunity not a Problem
Identity and Responsibility
If you’re Jewish in America, odds are you’ve got a family member who’s not Jewish. Experience a more nuanced and optimistic approach to the complex issue of Jewish intermarriage than the fearful shrill we hear all too often from the organized community, and learn to open your heart, mind, and doors to intermarried families.
Help Your Synagogue Really "Welcome the Stranger"
(And Other Jewish Organizations Too!)
Why do intermarried families, multiracial Jews, LGBT, single parents, and many other segments of the Jewish community participate less in organized Judaism? Discuss how we can lower barriers while creating a “Big Tent Judaism” for our less-engaged friends and family members.
Late Bloomers: Coming to Judaism as an Adult
A growing number of individuals -- including Jews-by-Choice, many adult children of intermarriage, and the non-Jewish spouses in intermarriages -- begin their “Jewish journey” much later in life than the usual straight-line of JCC pre-school through Jewish summer camp through bar/bat mitzvah through Hillel. Share those journeys and discuss how the community might better foster them.
Jews Were Never Just White Folk
The Increasing Diversity of the Jewish Community
While the Jewish people have always been multiracial, the U.S. Jewish community is becoming more racially diverse through transracial adoption, multiracial intermarriage, and multiracial Jews-by-Choice. How can we modify what is commonly called “Jewish ethnicity” (i.e., the Ashkenazi-American experience) to incorporate the true diversity of the American Jewish experience?
