Monday, June 15, 2015

It’s Wedding Season!

By Keshet for MyJewishLearning.com

With so many positive steps towards marriage equality occurring throughout the country we thought we’d round up a few of our favorite gender neutral/same-sex traditions.

A Jewish Wedding Story: We love this G-dcast video of Margee and her partner’s traditional same-sex marriage. It was important to the couple to have a traditional Jewish wedding, and it took a lot of conversations to decide why and how to use traditional, Hebrew, religious language as a way to affirm their unique place in the Jewish community.

Queering Conventions —In Style: Buzzfeed has 11 ways to reinvent old wedding traditions with an LGBTQ twist. Our favorite? Their suggestion to get a new poem with “something old, something queer. Something borrowed, something dear.”

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