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A partner in a same-sex couple describes how and why they chose to use traditional language for their wedding ceremony
A blessing for receiving Torah, acknowledging the diversity of the spectrum of queer identities
Liturgy of the sheva brakhot adapted for a lesbian wedding or two people identified as female
This article articulates principles of Jewish ritual as the author uses them to create a same-sex Jewish wedding
A couple’s first-person account of the process of creating their wedding ceremony
A blessing to be read to two women under their huppah
Kathy, Joyce, and their rabbi found innovative ways to rework the traditional wedding ceremony to suit their needs as two women
The text of the sheva brakhot in Hebrew and translation, an explantion, feminist considerations, two alternative same-sex texts, and an additional prayer for heterosexual couples to add for same-sex partners whose love is not yet sanctified and recognized in the same way
This beautiful Covenant of Love ceremony begins with havdalah and is filled with personal expressions of love and well-chosen readings. This ceremony is both a good example of how a lesbian couple reckoned with tradition and also how to make a ceremony extremely personal.
A new legal formulation for kinyan as acceptance, rather than purchase
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