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List of contents
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/Chrismukkah
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¿
Dogmä
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¿
Karmä
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¿
Utopiä
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¿
Xenophobiä
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 Chrismukkah
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About the author
By Rabbi Denise Handlarski
Summary
If your relationship needs less "oy" and more joy, this is the book for you!
