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Sample Rituals

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Use a Havdalah candle as the unity candle.
-submitted by Aimee Goldberg

For Buddhist or Hindu Interfaith Weddings

Incorporate fire from a candle into the walk around the fire, typical of Hindu marriages. Or have 108 candles glowing during the Buddhist-Jewish marriage ceremony.
-submitted by Julia Gutman

Jumping the Broom

For Jewish-African-American weddings, a good counterpart to breaking the glass is "jumping the broom." During slavery, African-Americans did not have the legal right to marry. But they still got married in a ceremony that typically involved taking vows in the presence of a witness and leaping over the handle of a broom
-submitted by Marissa Fireman

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Hebrew for "separation" or "distinction," the ceremony marking the end of the Sabbath on Saturday evenings.
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