Type: Complete Ceremony

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A moving ceremony including prayers and poems to commemorate the attacks of September 11, 2001
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Ceremony with friends and officiant including song and a ritual handwashing

wedding band on a piece of wood

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

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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.

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

bride and groom on the beach

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

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

bride and groom in field

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

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A tena’im ceremony based on a traditional version but using a new tena’im contract spelling out the couple’s mutual obligations in marriage

A couple laughing by a stone wall overlooking the ocean.
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