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by Heidi Gralla
How Elastic is Jewish Tradition
For centuries, Jewish brides and grooms have been married under a huppah, a symbol of the Jewish home. Traditionally, the groom placed a ring on the bride’s finger and declared her “consecrated” to him. The bride said nothing. Nothing.
Weddings in a Feminist Age
The articles in this special section:A Counterproposal
by Sarah Blustain
Why white wedding madness raises her feminist hackles, and how she revealed this to her significant other.
How Elastic is Jewish Tradition
by Heidi Gralla
Rabbis have very different views on what’s indispensable in a Jewish wedding—and on what the bride may say at her own wedding!
Under the African Huppah
by Aliyah Baruchin
A do-it-yourself, interreligious, multicultural wedding.
Running the Orthodox Rabbinic Gauntlet in Israel
by Michele Chabin
How to get around the restrictive rules and regs. Plus…a Reform rabbi, Naamah Kelman, resists in Jerusalem.
The Wedding Photographer Tells All
by Flash Rosenberg
Studying lovers for hours while she shoots their weddings gives her visual insights into what holds marriages (and families) together.