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Quotes/Testimonials
“A well-written, touching piece that could serve as a great starting point for conversations about the complexities of interfaith relationships.”
Micah Sachs, Online Managing Editor, InterfaithFamily.com
"Both Sides of the Family represents the complex issues of interfaith marriages in a sensitive and informative way. The presentation is insightful for those who are the partners, parents and loved ones of interfaith relationships. I think it is an excellent piece to initiate profound discussions on how we welcome people of different faiths and what they can mean to our Jewish community."
Rabbi Rosie Haim
"The play was provocative, entertaining, absorbing and broadening, and, beautifully performed. Furthermore, it was perfectly economical—no wasted words and everything contributed to the whole. On the way home, I remarked to Don that this was New York quality. I’m so pleased you let us know about this—it was one of the best experiences of our holiday season. "
"Even though we are not Jewish, we could certainly relate to the themes of tradition and family and the choices/sacrifices you make for family. It really does mean everything. We both come from families where tradition is very important. I thought it was really well written. The play verbalized beliefs and feeling which made me feel enriched leaving the performance."
"I was simultaneously embarrassed and proud of our idiosyncratic Jewish peculiarities, at all of our silly rules and their necessary exceptions and the requisite flexibility of our identities within a structure that has defied numerous metamorphoses. I felt defensive about our apparent stringent exclusivity and yet apologetic about the anguish we cause others who want to attach themselves to us and we make it so hard. At moments like that I feel like I become the rocky cliff against which multiple waves are crashing and then in on themselves, over and over, until they return to sea to be replaced by yet bigger, stronger ones. I feel contempt for ambivalent born-Jews who have not one wit of guilt or pride about their Jewishness. And I can empathize completely with the kind of indignation your character portrayed when she says with such real exasperation, "How could I obey a rule I never knew existed?" And then I wonder who the hell I am to be so contemptuous or so understanding?"