Source: Warwick Online
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This fall, the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Jewish Community Center of Rhode Island will launch a local branch of the Mothers Circle, a national outreach program specifically for non-Jewish women who are raising Jewish children.
The program consists of a course, national listserv and local drop-in events designed to teach Jewish customs and rituals to women who are intermarried or in committed relationships. It is meant to support and aid these women in their decision to raise their children in the Jewish tradition.
“We really want to be available to as many people as we can be,” explained Kit Haspel, BJE board member and coordinator of the local Circle.
Funded by the Helene and Bertram Bernhardt Foundation, the program is entirely free, and participants will even receive free childcare while they are attending courses.
“It’s been an extraordinarily successful program around the country. Interfaith outreach is something that needs to be done in every community,” she continued.
When the Mothers Circle was first created by the Jewish Outreach Institute, it consisted of only one pilot program in Atlanta, Ga. Today, there are host organizations in 18 states, with many more still on the way.