Bridges
Bridges is a free newsletter filled with information of particular interest to interfaith families. Each issue contains a full page of events, workshops, and programs, along with informational articles. It is published a few times a year to coincide with the Jewish holidays. PDF versions of back issues are available at the following url or you can sign-up to for a free subscription.
Website: http://www.sfjcf.org/resources/interfaith/

Building Jewish Bridges Building Jewish Bridges: Outreach to Interfaith Couples
Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the East Bay, this program, in collaboration with the Interfaith Connection, offers groups and workshops for interfaith couples and families.
Contact: Dawn Kepler
401 Grand Avenue, 5th floor
Oakland, CA 94610
Email: dawn@eb.jfed.org
Website: http://www.jfed.org/interfaith.htm
Phone: (510) 839-2900 x347

The Interfaith Center at the Presidio
This is a Bay area regional grassroots organization dedicated to building friendly, mutually supportive relationships among people from different faith traditions. The Cetner cares for and operates the Main Post Chapel in the Presidio of San Francisco, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area of the National Park Service. They have a chapel available for worship and meditation, for personal ceremonies such as weddings and memorials, as well as various interfaith, community and performance events.
Contact: Paul Chaffee, Director, (415) 775-4635
P.O. Box 29055
San Francisco, CA 94129
Email: paul@interfaith-presidio.org
Website: http://www.interfaith-presidio.org

Interfaith Connection
The Interfaith Connection, housed at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, is a program that addresses the special needs of interfaith couples where one of the partners is Jewish. Interfaith Connection offers discussion groups, panel discussions and lectures, and Jewish holiday workshops. Topics of the panels and lectures include wedding planning, other life-cycle events, parenting, grandparenting and others.
Contact: Helena McMahon, MFTI
Email: hmcmahon@jccsf.org
Web site: www.jccsf.org/interfaith
Phone: 415.292.1252

Jewish Family and Children's Services
Interfaith Outreach Program
JFCS provides services and support for interfaith couples and families, and the institutions that serve them, through a variety of innovative programs including support groups, counseling for individuals, couples and families, educational workshops and seminars. A speakers bureau is being developed; workshops have included Making Relationships Work seminars, and Creating a Shared Spirituality for Interfaith Couples.
Contact: Karen Erlichman, LCSW, Project Coordinator
Phone: 415.449.1210
Email: karene@jfcs.org

Mosaic Family Camp
Sponsored by Camp Tawonga, Mosaic Family Camp is an annual Jewish weekend for multiracial and multicultural families.
Contact: Deborah Newbrun, (415) 543-2267
Website: http://www.tawonga.org

Tiferet
Tiferet is a consortium of five East Bay Conservative rabbis and the Executive Director of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of the East Bay. Working under the aegis of a grant from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the Tiferet Project is addressing the issue of intermarriage within the Conservative Jewish community.
Contact: Rose Levinson, Project Director
Email: tiferet2@earthlink.net.

Union of American Hebrew Congregations - Jewish Choices Initiative
Provides resources and information about the many interfaith programs offered in Reform congregations. Rabbi Berk also refers couples to rabbis who will perform interfaith weddings. You may also call this office to reach the Reform sponsored summer camps for kids.
Regional Director: Rabbi Michael Berk, Jewish Choices Initative Director: Karen Kushner, MSW
703 Market St., #1300
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 392-7080
Email: kkushner@uahc.org

Dovetail Institute
Dovetail Institute for Interfaith Family Resources provides interfaith couples, their families and friends, and the professionals who serve them, with educational and networking venues and opportunities. DI-IFR also conducts and reports on research of concern to interfaith families. Their services include publication of a journal and books, national conferences, and an e-mail group.
Phone: (800) 530-1596
E-mail: di-ifr@bardstown.com
Web site: http://www.dovetailinstitute.org

InterfaithFamily.com
InterfaithFamily.com is a non-profit publisher and advocacy organization, working to encourage Jewish choices by interfaith families, as well as an increased acceptance of interfaith families by the Jewish community. They publish a bi-monthly webzine from a Jewish perspective, respecting the faith of individuals from all religious backgrounds as well as appreciating differences in nationality, race and culture.
Web site: http://www.interfaithfamily.com
Email: Edmund Case, Publisher: edc@InterfaithFamily.com
Ronnie Friedland, Editor: ronst@attbi.com
Kathy Bloomfield, Director of Community Development: kathyb@InterfaithFamily.com.
Snail mail address:
P.O. Box 9129
Newton, MA 02464
617 965 7700 ext. 205 -- Edmund Case, ext. 243 -- Kathy Bloomfield
617 244 8478 -- Ronnie Friedland

Jewish Outreach Institute
Since 1988, the Jewish Outreach Institute has been a leader in the development of Jewish community-based outreach programming. Through their national conferences, publications and informational resources, JOI has helped foster the creation of scores of Jewish outreach programs from coast to coast. JOI administers grants for the Jewish Connection Partnership. Website has great articles and resources.
1270 Broadway, Suite 609
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 760-1440
Email: info@joi.org
Website: http://www.joi.org

The Rabbinic Center for Research and Counseling
Founded in 1970, the Rabbinic Center for Research and Counseling is the first organization established to promote research on intermarriage and to serve the needs of intermarrying and intermarried couples. The Rabbinic Center provides a list of rabbis who officiate at intermarriages, conducts and promotes research on intermarriage, offers premarital and marital therapy for intermarried couples and their families, and presents a variety of programs specifically geared to the needs of intermarried couples.
Rabbi Irwin H. Fishbein, D. Min., Director
Phone: 908-233-0419
Email: ihf@rcrconline.org
Website: http://www.rcrconline.org