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Go To BlogsBy changing my stance on intermarriage officiation, I seek to balance two competing, but important values: the desire to retain and respect the unique sacred character of the Jewish wedding and the opportunity to welcome mixed couples into the Jewish community and help them create Jewish homes.
Date: 04-18-2012One rabbi's reasons for his changed approach to co-officiating interfaith marriages.
Date: 08-01-2012Professional view article containing a sample script of a Jewish-Christian co-officiated ceremony, with an emphasis on the Jewish parts but with elements of both.
Date: 08-01-2012I would like to offer a few points for reflection based on my thirty years' experience as a priest who has been involved in many interfaith weddings.
Date: 08-01-2012Professional view article about how, given the proper setting, word choice, and symbols, elements of both Christianity and Judaism can be combined to create a personally meaningful wedding ceremony for couples.
Date: 08-17-2006Professional view from a rabbi who sees the most important elements of an interfaith wedding as inclusion and balance and includes his suggestions for these wedding ceremonies.
Date: 08-21-2006Professional view from the Jewish Outreach Institute reporting survey results and statistics about American rabbis’ attidutes toward intermarriage and officiation.
Date: 07-31-2006Reprinted rabbi’s sermon about his evolving thoughts toward officiating interfaith weddings, and the creative new policy toward interfaith weddings that his synagogue devised so that couples could be married in the synagogue, just not
Date: 11-14-2006Professional view article about why a rabbi won’t officiate at interfaith weddings and how he handles telling couples that he won’t marry them.
Date: 08-17-2006A news article discussing the roles of non-Jewish parents in their child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah at Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist synagogues.
Date: 08-22-2007
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