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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 ...
Brandeis University

Jewish Futures Project. The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel: Marriage and Family

This report examines Taglit’s long-term impact on participants with a special focus on their decisions about marriage and children. The findings are from data collected in 2013 for the fourth wave of ...
Brandeis University

Jewish Futures Project. Beyond 10 Days: Parents, Gender, Marriage, and the Long-term Impact of Birthright Israel

Beyond 10 days: Parents, Gender, Marriage, and the Long-term Impact of Birthright Israel presents findings from the 5th wave of a longitudinal panel study of several thousand Jewish young adults who ...
KBIA

Julie Rosenfeld on same-sex marriage: ‘The state sanction is just another way of affirming that our love matters.’

It’s been 10 years since same-sex marriage became legal nationwide following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision. Julie Rosenfeld in Columbia describes herself as a “Jewish lesbian ...
SFGate

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

(THE CONVERSATION) Traditional Jewish weddings share one key aspect with traditional Christian weddings. Historically, the ceremony was essentially a transfer of property: A woman went from being the ...
Times Union

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

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) Traditional ...