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For American Jews, interfaith weddings are a new normal – and creatively weave both traditions together

More than 10 years ago, I attended a college friend’s wedding in New York City. My friend is Muslim, her husband Jewish. They were married under a Jewish wedding canopy made from the groom’s bar ...
Yahoo

From the marriage contract to breaking the glass under the chuppah, many Jewish couples adapt their weddings to celebrate gender equality

The ketubah is a binding document in Jewish law that traditionally spells out a groom's responsibilities toward his wife − but that many couples adapt to be more egalitarian. PowerSiege/iStock via ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Around the Jewish World Rabbi in Panama Has Built Thriving Jewish Community

When Zion Levy arrived in Panama for his first assignment as a rabbi at the age of 26, he seriously wondered what his superiors in his native Jerusalem were thinking in sending him. He found a ...
Grand Forks Herald

Woman trains to marry Jewish couples in underwater weddings

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Getting married can be an elaborate, stressful affair. Now try it 20 feet under water -- and make it a Jewish wedding, where the groom is expected to smash a wrapped glass ...
Religion News Service

From the marriage contract to breaking the glass under the chuppah, many Jewish couples adapt their weddings to celebrate gender equality

Some of them had also designed their ceremonies to reflect feminism and marriage equality – something that the interfaith weddings had in common with many weddings where both members of the couple ...