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Our Weddings as an Identity Card

Why I Got Married in City Hall in New York and not at the Rabbinate
By Roni Abulafia  |  22/10/2009
When I decided to get married, the thought of using the services of a rabbi did not even flicker through my consciousness. In my view, as in the view of many of my friends, the possibility of going to the Rabbinate and having an Orthodox ceremony was out of the question from the start. But to tell you the truth, recogn...

Why I married through the Rabbinate and not city-hall in Rome
By Uri S. Cohen  |  22/10/2009
Maybe it is because I am jewish and my father knew the prayers by heart, maybe because my grandfather's hands trembled as he wrapped me in a prayer-shawl before I read from the Torah.Uri S. Cohen explains why he married through the Rabbinate and not city-hall in Rome These Are Preparations for Traveling

A revolution in Noah’s Ark
By Irit Rosenblum  |  22/10/2009
Only 58 percent of all family units in Israel represent the “classic family unit,” in which a Jewish man and woman live together following a traditional Orthodox Jewish wedding. The other family units lack one or more from among the various links that make up this formula, and consequently find themselves outside the c...

Not Formalizing our Marriage? It's a Statement
By Olga Prelutzky  |  22/10/2009
"I don't see any thing in our life as a challenge to society, or a protest against the established norms. We are married in essence and in practice, but not by law. Paradoxically, we are not getting married, among other reasons, because we are more romantic and dreamier than the world around us. At present, ...

"It Is Necessary to Establish a System of Alternative Courts, Loyal to the Halakhah and Faithful to Changes in the Reality"
By Rivkah Luvitch  |  22/10/2009
For two years Anat Zuria, a documentary film director, followed the lives of three women who found themselves in the situation in which their husbands refuse to consent to divorce. Her movie Sentenced to Marriage (Mekudeshet) is a trenchant indictment of the general behavior of the rabbinical courts in Israel, and espe...

An Exalted Covenant: Creating a Home Built on Sanctity
By Yuval Cherlow  |  22/10/2009
“The family unit is only a reflection of the lack of certainty and stability that characterizes our entire world. Creating a home in accordance with Jewish law restores some of the stability that is derived from family. For this reason, the demand for a traditional ceremony surpasses the demand for alternative rituals....

A Great Spirit from Above Passed through Us
By Ayna Ardal  |  22/10/2009
Shani, from the secular Gordon family, and Yossi, from the religious Froman family, married each other about a year and a half ago in an exceptional wedding ceremony, in which Yossi invited Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Matriarchs of the Jewish nation, and additional righteous ones from other generations, to come and ...

“Many Israelis are Reform without realizing it”
By Meir Azari  |  22/10/2009
“The most important thing is to speak in the vocabulary of the Jewish language, and the vocabulary of our wedding is complex, just as it is among the Orthodox, from the Kiddushin, to the marriage contract and the ring. These are the foundation stones. It is a ceremony that is Israeli, profoundly Jewish – but also egali...

The Holy Wedding
By Chaviva Pedya  |  22/10/2009
What idea is behind the myth of the holy wedding (hieros gamos), and what is the meaning of several early wedding practices observed in Jewish Diaspora communities? Haviva Pedaya reexamines these customs through the prism of Jewish esotericism, in the hope that they will serve as the basis for understanding Jewish wedd...

Middle East
By Ghassan Manasra  |  22/10/2009
"We came to ask for your daughter's hand on behalf of our son, and we hope that our request will be granted."

At the appointed date, the young man's family, with him in attendance, arrives at the home of the young woman's parents, accompanied by a group of distinguished men. The host family ...
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