Weddings & Marriage
How I Ended Up Delivering the Sermon on Rosh Hashanah
Over the summer, Larry, the organizer of the minyan that I attend for Rosh Hashanah, sent out an email asking ...
Always the Rabbi, Never the Bride? Adding Values to a Jewish Wedding
Having officiated at many weddings over the years, I sometimes joked to my friends that I was “always the rabbi, ...
What Happens When Our Heroines Fail Us?
One of the great disappointments of this summer has been finding out, with the publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set ...
When it Comes to Jewish Sexual Laws, It’s 3 Jews, 0 Opinions
Laws of family purity and sex should be private, but can they be too private?Some of this post contains adult ...
Legal Justice vs. Social Justice: Keep Pushing Forward
On June 26th, the United States’ LGBT+ community and its allies celebrated a monumental victory when same-sex marriage was deemed ...
Why We Should Separate Civil and Religious Marriage. And Why We Shouldn’t.
Same sex marriage is now the law of the land. The Supreme Court’s ruling last week in Obergefell v. Hodges ...
Cheryl Moch & Cinderella’s Real True Story
This June Keshet is so very excited to be partnering with the Jewish Women’s Archive to celebrate Pride. Each week we will bring ...
Marriage Equality: Our Figurative Promised Land
Tears of joy! “Equal protection under the law” are the words everywhere on my Facebook feed. This is simultaneously a ...
The Supremes Are Singing
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that all couples are entitled to enjoy equal marriage right across ...
Opening the Walls of Our Chuppah
There is a particular photograph that adorns the imagination of every engaged couple; it is of a young girl, age ...
It’s Wedding Season!
As May rolls along, one thing is very clear: wedding season is here.With so many positive steps towards marriage equality ...
Why I Did a 180 on “Kosher Soul”
A friend tipped me off to a new reality TV show that was about to begin publicizing its pilot episode. ...