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Pastoral Issues for Marriage and Premarital Counseling

Working with a couple towards their chuppah is an opportunity to celebrate their relationship and affirm their role as full members of their Jewish community and the Jewish world at large. This is our chance as rabbis to communicate how welcome the couple is and that it is possible for…

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Marriage Ritual

What are the components of a classical Jewish wedding ceremony and how do these components intersect with a same-sex marriage ritual? This piece aims to provide a framework for thinking about same-sex marriage rituals by laying out the legal components of the traditional wedding ceremony. The classical ritual will provide…

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Enlarging Sacred Space: Ka’dusha & Same-Sex Marriages

The attitude of the Jewish renewal community to same-sex relationships is rooted in our sense that holiness is not a closed and limited commodity. For the Torah teaches, “Make sacred space for me to dwell, and I will be with you” (Ex. 25:8). This verse appears in that part of…

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1/18 – Miami Jewish Film Festival – Janice Ian: Breaking SIlence

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence chronicles the singer’s epic life journey from her Jewish childhood on a chicken farm in New Jersey through the release of the disruptive album Breaking Silence, which she leveraged to come out publicly about her gay marriage. With access to Ian’s incredible body of music, her…

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1/23 – Ketu-What?! Reimagining Your Ketubah

The strength of our relationships is measured not by how much we love each other when things are easy, but by how we communicate when things are hard. Judaism has made use of ketubot, or marriage covenants, for eons. Modern ketubot go beyond tradition and signify the set of promises…

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1/16 – Ketu-What?! Reimagining Your Ketubah

The strength of our relationships is measured not by how much we love each other when things are easy, but by how we communicate when things are hard. Judaism has made use of ketubot, or marriage covenants, for eons. Modern ketubot go beyond tradition and signify the set of promises…

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Idit Klein to Leave Her Role as Keshet President & CEO

Download a PDF of this press release. CONTACT: Thea Hillman, Chief Communications Officer, Keshet [email protected] | 510.786.8258 IDIT KLEIN TO LEAVE HER ROLE AS PRESIDENT & CEO OF KESHET, THE NATION’S LEADING JEWISH LGBTQ+ EQUALITY ORGANIZATION After 24 years under Klein’s leadership, Keshet is poised to strengthen Jewish communities and advance…

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