Intermarriage and the Jewish Community

Guest Speaker: Ed Case, Executive Director and Founder, Interfaithfamily.com, Intermarriage and the Jewish Community

Friday, January 27, 2012 at 7:00pm

Edmund Case, the founder and CEO of InterfaithFamily.com, will speak about changing attitudes about intermarriage and about how Jewish communities can and must genuinely welcome and engage interfaith couples and families in Jewish life and community. Case graduated from Yale in 1972 and from Harvard Law School in 1975. In 1997 Case enrolled in the Heller-Hornstein Program at Brandeis University, graduating in May 1999 with a Masters in Jewish Communal Service and a Masters in Management. In June 2000 Case completed a three-year term as president of Temple Shalom of Newton, MA, a 1,000-family Reform synagogue. He has served as a member of the URJ (Union of Reform Judaism) Northeast Regional Outreach Committee since 1993, and he and his wife and daughter have been panelists at outreach programs at URJ conventions.