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The ceremonial first haircut for a child at the age of three.

A ritual to mark gender transition and celebrate freedom

A moving ceremony including prayers and poems to commemorate the attacks of September 11, 2001

Ceremony with friends and officiant including song and a ritual handwashing

Kathy, Joyce, and their rabbi found innovative ways to rework the traditional wedding ceremony to suit their needs as two women

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.

Sue and Ben wrote a “verbose but helpful guide” to their wedding which is both traditional and egalitarian (incorporating both kiddushin and shutafut)

An informative wedding booklet which walks the reader through all the traditional elements of a Jewish wedding ceremony

A wedding booklet describing one couple’s choices for a traditional-egalitarian Jewish wedding

A ritual template for creating a Jewish wedding service that celebrates gender and sexual diversity

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