Earlier, I talked about our search for a rabbi willing to not only officiate an interfaith wedding, but one also willing to co-officiate with a Methodist minister. Going into the search, I knew it would be difficult. Eight years earlier, my sister had gone through the same search, with no luck, but I was hopeful. […]

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As most of you know, I have two children from a previous interfaith marriage, and while they are being exposed to both Judaism and Christianity, they are basically being raised Christian. They’ve always been included in all Jewish holiday activities, but this year, for the first time, we’ve got a conflict.
My oldest son has […]

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Bryan and I had another really good session with Reverend Bassford this morning. I mentioned in my last post that we were to have written down religious holidays that were important to us (individually) and that we’d discuss how to celebrate them respectfully in our interfaith home.
Well, we didn’t write them down, but we […]

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Bryan and I have a couple of new tasks to take on this week, after our latest pre-marital counseling sessions with Rabbi Charlie and Reverend Bassford.
When we next meet with Rabbi, we’re supposed to have come up with some goals - personal goals, goals as a couple, and goals for our family. We’re actually supposed […]

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I know that we’re kind of posting things out of order. But, since it’s apparent that we’re having both a Minister and a Rabbi officiate our wedding, I thought someone out there might like to know how we came to find our Minister.
I’ll be honest - I had read that couples who wanted a […]

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The following series of events led us to the rabbi who will be co-officiating our ceremony. In a future post, I will get into why finding a willing rabbi was so difficult…
As soon as we had established that we wanted to have a rabbi and minister co-officiate our wedding, we began our search.
The first step […]

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