Chicken Soup with Chopsticks

Wisconsin Bookwatch, Jan, 2005

Chicken Soup With Chopsticks

Jack Botwinik

Paper Spider

1821 Walkley Road, Suite 8, Rm. M101

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1H 6X9

0973252316 $18.18 1-888-266-5788

Over 50% of American Jews intermarry. In an effort to counter the cultural assimilation arising from interfaith relationships, Rabbis, community leaders, and family members struggle to educate Jewish men and women of what the consequent issues of a mixed marriage will invoke ranging from pressure from a spouse to convert, to keeping kosher, to circumcision of newborn males, to raising children as Jewish, to avoiding family gatherings to the emotional pain of a gentile spouse. Chicken Soup With Chopsticks: A Jew's Struggle For Truth In An Interfaith Relationship by Jack Botwinik is a personal example of one man's efforts within the framework of his own interfaith courtship and marriage to a Chinese woman and how the two of them dealt with the unfolding consequences of their interfaith relationship. An account of candor, insight, reflection, and experience, Also available in a hardcover edition (0973252308, $22.18), Chicken Soup With Chopsticks is a unique and thoroughly "reader friendly" contribution to the growing library of books on the subject of contemporary Judaism and Interfaith Marriage.