Acknowledgments Introduction A Acceptance Action Adam and Eve Aggravation Antisemitism Assertiveness A$$holes Assimilation Attentiveness Attitude B B''shert Backgrounds Beauty Belief, Behavior, Belonging (bonus: B. Mitzvah) Bible Blending Borrowing Bridges C Calm Camp Children (and bonus "C"--circumcision) Communication/Chrismakkuh Community Compromise Conversion Cost Creativity Culture D Daily Life (tasks, what you want daily life to look like) Dancing Daring Death Definition Destiny Divorce DIY Dogma Dreams E Eagerness Eats Education Elation Elevation Emotion Emotional Load Energy/Excitement Equality/Equity The Everyday F Feelings/Fear Fellowship Festive Season Fidelity Forgiveness Frankness Freedom Friendship Fun Future Planning G Garbage Gefilte Fish Giving God Goodness Google Grandchildren Grief Grudges/Grievances Guilt H Happiness Healing Hearing Helping Holidays Honoring Hope Hostility Hosting Hurting I Ignorant Important Inclusivity/Inclusion (featuring InterfaithFamily.com) Indivisibility Industriousness Insistence Intensity Invitations Irritation Isolation J Jazz Jealousy Jerks Jesus Jokes Journey Joy Judaism/Jewishness Juggling Justice K Kaleidoscope Kaput Karma Keva/kavannah Kids Kindness Kings Klunkiness Knowledge Kosher L Lean In Learning Legalities Listening Literature Losing It Loss and Letting Go Love Luggage M Marriage Meaning Mentsch Mindfulness Mistakes/Messes Mixed Moments Money Moses Mystery N Nag Nationhood Needs versus Wants Negativity/Naysaying Negotiation Never Say Never No Nos Nope "Normal" Nuptials O Officiating Ok Openness Opportunity Oppression Optimism Ordained Originality Oscillation Oxygen P Pandering Parenting Parents Partnership Passion Paternalism Patrilineal Descent Poetry Possibility Principles Q Quagmires and Quandaries Quality Quantity Quarrelling Queer Questioning Quicksand Quid Pro Quo Quirks Quotable R Reaching Out Realism Reason(ableness) Reconnection Relatives Relativity Renewal Resilience Respect Rules S Sensitivity Serendipity/Syncronicity Sex/Sweetness/Softness Sharing Shavuot Shopping - Stuff Shopping - Synagogues Silliness Stifled Struggling T Talk Therapy Talmud Teaching Terminology The Attic Tikkun Olam Tradition Truth Turtle Island Tzedakah U Ugliness Undercutting Understanding Unity Universality Unlearning Unorthodox Unpopular Urgency Utopia V Vacations Values Vantage Point/Viewpoint Variability Veils Venting/Ventilation Vicious Circles Victories Visibility Vision W Wake up Calls Wandering Weddings White Dresses Whiteness Wisdom Wishlists Wokeness Wondering Worldliness X/Y X Marks the Spot Xenophobia X-factor Xmas X-rays Yearning Yelling Yiddish Yom Kippur You Z Zamboni Zany Zealous Zero Tolerance Zigzag (rhizome) Zipper (seam) Zodiac Zone Zoom Zygote Appendix: December Delights: Creating and Crushing Chrismakkuh Bibliography.