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He didn’t. Actually, toward the end of our wedding planning, he did — but his family, which is much larger than mine, was expecting a big fat Orthodox Jewish wedding. What they weren’t ...

and most had never been to a Jewish wedding and same-sex wedding that had taken into account halachic consideration [orthodox Jewish law],” she said. Was the host’s threat to cancel the ...

For their wedding, Greenberg and Cohen turned to Rabbi Steve Greenberg, the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi, to develop a ceremony which combined business partnership contracts with Jewish ...

Brides also have heard wedding narratives from an ... Jews and is becoming attractive to non-Orthodox Jews, as the mikvah pool has modernized. In Jewish history, immersing is so important that ...

So these kinds of communities might have as much as a third or half of the music be Jewish, even though they consider themselves secular. It’s actually very similar to an Orthodox wedding ...