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Officiation
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Temple Israel OKs Interfaith Weddings in Its Building
By Marshall WeissA news article about new policy in a Reform synagogue in Dayton, Ohio, that allows interfaith marriages to take place in the sanctuary as long as the rabbi, who will not perform intermarriages, approves the ceremony, and as long as no non-Jewish symbol
Date: 07-05-2007 -
Whose Life Is It Anyway?: Officiating at an Intermarriage
By Rabbi Paul H. LevensonProfessional view by rabbi presenting a typical scenario that occurs when an interfaith couple approaches him asking that he marry them.
Date: 08-17-2006 -
Counseling Interfaith Couples Who Want Me to Marry Them
By Rev. Yvonne V. SchaudtProfessional view by a minister discussing how she immediately hurls the hard questions--conversion and children--at interfaith couples who want her to marry them because she believes that these questions are essential to work out before
Date: 11-14-2006 -
Once Was Not Enough: Why We Had Three Weddings
By Bonni GoldbergPersonal narrative in which intermarried woman describes her three weddings: one before a judge, with no guests, one with her family, and one with their friends.
Date: 07-18-2006 -
On Becoming a Justice of the Peace
By Elise KleinPersonal narrative from a director of an outreach program about how she became a justice of the peace and officiated at a moving wedding between an Orthodox Jewish man and an Irish-Catholic man.
Date: 06-23-2006 -
Expansive Chuppah: Washington Hebrew OKs Officiation of Interfaith Weddings--with Conditions
By Paula AmannNews article about a decision by Washington Hebrew Congregation, the country’s third-largest Reform synagogue, to allow its rabbis to officiate at intermarriages.
Date: 11-15-2006 -
Rabbi Takes an Inventive Approach to Intermarriage
By Judie JacobsonReprint news article about a rabbi who agrees to allow certain others to perform intermarriages in his synagogue, under certain conditions, even though he himself won’t perform them.
Date: 08-11-2006 -
A Journey of Faith: Step by Step, Beginning with the Birth of Our First Child
By Sallie W. GotoffA personal narrative from a Catholic woman who felt so at home in her Reconstructionist synagogue that she decided to convert.
Date: 02-26-2007 -
In Israel, Pressure Builds to Find Alternatives to Orthodox Marriage
By Dina KraftReprinted news and general information article about the frustrations of liberal and secular Israelis at Israel’s stringent marriage laws. There are no civil unions in Israel, and only Orthodox ceremonies constitute legal marriages,
Date: 11-27-2006 -
Is Officiation a Litmus Test for Hiring?
By Steve LipmanNews article on the difficulties faced by Reform rabbis who won’t officiate at intermarriages when trying to find a pulpit.
Date: 08-24-2007
