wedding
On Wedding Vows, Giving, and Receiving
My sister, Chanie, and my new brother-in-law, Joel, got married this month. I’m very fortunate to have incredible co-workers who ...
6 Things I Learned Writing About Weddings For The New York Times
My first novel, The Wedding Beat , was loosely based on my experience as a single Jewish guy writing the ...
The One Thing I Didn’t Expect My Son to be Surprised By
Sometimes I forget that we live in a particular sort of liberal bubble here in our “Happy Valley.” And there ...
Somebody’s Getting Married… Under the Chuppah!
Only this Jewish woman – this devoted, active, works-in-the Jewish community Jewish woman! – would meet and marry a man named ...
Leave my bar mitzvah alone!
Last week I was following the dialogue and reflections of two of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues on the topic ...
On “Hava Nagila”
I am a music snob. People know this about me, and I deserve the title. I have said hurtful things ...
B’reshit and Bashert: In Our beginning, All Kinds of Love Were Sanctified
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
A new face of interfaith marriage
In the past couple of weeks I’ve had some very interesting enquiries from couples seeking to be married by a ...
Love Story: The Making of a Jewish Wedding
I prepared the bimah with two kiddush cups, a bottle of kosher wine and a glass wrapped in a white ...