How does one celebrate a holiday for which they have no spiritual connection and perhaps no strong point of reference? That is a question that interfaith families may be contemplating with the High Holy Days approaching. For some, the season may be what Rabbi Miriam Wajnberg has called a “point of entry” to Judaism. So how can a family member help that entry to be a smooth one and one that leads to continuing conversations and experiences?

“I think it’s important for a couple to talk before attending a service,” Rabbi Rachel Brown of Beth Israel-The West Temple in Cleveland told the Cleveland Jewish News. “I tell those who have not been to a service before that this is a time of deep introspection. A time to go inward and consider ‘Do the ways I’m living match the ways I want to be living

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