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Creating New Lifecycle Rituals

By Rabbi Yoel H. Kahn | Article

This article articulates principles of Jewish ritual as the author uses them to create a same-sex Jewish wedding. [more]

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Lesbian Wedding

Rosanne Leipzig and Judy Mable | Article

An article about the couple's process of creating their wedding ceremony [more]

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A Blessing for Two Women on the Occasion of Their Wedding

By Rabbi Leila Gal Berner | Prayer

A blessing to be read to two women under their chuppah [more]

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A Traditional Lesbian Wedding

By Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann | Complete Ceremony

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

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Nissuin (Nuptials)

By Rabbi Rona Shapiro | Article

The text of the blessings 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. [more]

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A Lesbian Havdalah Wedding

By Judy & Chris | Complete Ceremony

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. [more]

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Harei Ani: Vows

By Orrin Wolpert | Ritual Component

A new legal formulation for kinyan as acceptance, rather than purchase [more]

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Sheva Brachot

By Orrin Wolpert | Ritual Component

Seven wedding blessings adapted for two men [more]

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Trans/Gender Queer Jewish Wedding Service

By Rabbi Elliot Rose Kukla | Complete Ceremony

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

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