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Jewish Gentile Couples

Jewish Gentile Couples

by Tuvya Zaretsky

Christianity Judaism Relationships

Season 1

Persevering Through Rising Antisemitism

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 antisemitism. Now, in the wake of October 7 and an increasing surge of antisemitism, they’re learning how to persevere and care for each other as a newly married couple.

17. Marisa and Andrew Alexander

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 Marisa to be Ashkenazi Jewish and fluent in Zulu. Andrew is comfortable almost anywhere having grown up as a Scotsman in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Now he is discovering the Jewishness of faith in the Old and New Testaments!

16. David and Jennifer Goldstein

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 in Japan. Hers were middle American evangelicals in Indiana. Theirs is a story of finding a mutually satisfying spirituality and a soulmate.

15. Susan and Christian Wilder

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 cultural backgrounds. This is their story.

14. Aaron and Becky Lewin

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 mutual respect. They also share the intimacy of a spiritual harmony as well. Theirs is a fascinating story of cross cultural communication and love.

13. Martin and Elizabeth Goldsmith

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 purpose and joy in life together as cross-cultural ambassadors to various countries of S E Asia serving the God and Messiah of Israel.

12. Simone and Mark Grismore

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 might also appreciate Simone's blog about what shaped he identity from an interfaith family. Enjoy.

11. Sahar and Maria Sadlovsky

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 discovery and the challenges of a complex cross-cultural relationship. Enjoy the story of our current front page faces at www.JewishGentileCouples.com

10. Mike and Victoria Stele

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-cultural religious challenges? Mike and Victoria are a Southern California couple that met in a water park, married in a rush and today are together and solid as a rock. How'd they do that? Give a listen. They'll make you think.

9. D'vora and Teddy Lema

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 Ethiopian Jews who were airlifted to Israel during Project Solomon. Their love story will lift your heart in how they found unity and spiritual harmony.

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