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Web Magazine Issue 162 - WEDDINGS, Part 3: Officiation

Web Magazine

Interfaith Weddings

Issue 162: July 6, 2005, Part 3: Officiation

FEATURED ARTICLES

Why I Don't Perform Interfaith Weddings

By Rabbi Steven Foster

Nowhere in Jewish law is it permissible "Jewishly" to have an interwedding take place.

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Performing Interfaith Weddings: An Opportunity

By Rabbi Bruce Kadden

It is an opportunity to bring a couple from different religious backgrounds into the Jewish community.

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

More Professional Views

Blessing Mixed-Faith Couples in the United Kingdom
By Rabbi Aaron Goldstein

We are the only branch of Judaism in the United Kingdom that sanctions interfaith marriages. 

Why I Changed My Mind
By Rabbi Arthur P. Nemitoff

My position was neither serving nor furthering the future of the Jewish people.

Interfaith Weddings I Am Happy To Perform, and Why
By Rabbi David Regenspan

If the non-Jewish one of you is a fellow traveler with the
Jewish community, I would say yes to you.

Co-Officiating at Interfaith Weddings
By Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn and Michael Boekstal

Their respect and recognition for each other's background sets a tone of mutual understanding for their life together.

Israelis Marry outside the Rabbinate
By Michele Chabin

Last year approximately 1,000 "alternative" marriages were performed in Israel. 

Arts and Entertainment

A Popular Intermarried French Comic-Book Writer
By Lauren Elkin

"I'm sorry, but my love life can't be used to compensate for what Hitler did."

News

Budget Recommendations Would Replace Pathways Program for Intermarrieds
By Robert Wiener

A successful outreach program in N.J. that has served hundreds of families has lost its funding.

 Marshall Weiss

Temple Israel OKs Interfaith Weddings in Its Building
By Marshall Weiss

An Ohio synagogue allows interfaith marriages by approved rabbis to take place in its building, under certain conditions.

Spiritual leader and teacher. Typically, but not always, leads a congregation. Place of Jewish worship, referring to both the room where it occurs and the building where it occurs. Colloquially referred to as "temple."
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