(JTA) — The vast majority of Reform rabbis will perform interfaith marriages, but most will not co-officiate weddings with non-Jewish clergy, a new study found. According to the survey, 84 percent of ...
To officiate or not to officiate — that is the question. When a Jew falls in love with a non-Jew, should a rabbi — as a communal leader, as a teacher and exemplar of our tradition, as pastor to a ...
NEW YORK — Rabbis at B’nai Jeshurun, an influential nondenominational synagogue in New York City, will officiate at the weddings of interfaith couples who commit to creating Jewish homes and raising ...
There is no civilization that has ever existed that abstained from marriage as one of its staples in building a nation. From time immemorial, marriage in Africa was seen as a sacred affair, one that ...
A controversy involving interfaith marriage is once again in the news. The Forward reported that a group of prominent Conservative rabbis last year wrote a letter urging the Rabbinical Assembly to ...
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NEW YORK (JTA) – Conservative Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom has been expelled from the Rabbinical Assembly, the movement’s rabbis’ association, for performing interfaith weddings. An ordained Conservative ...
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Forty-five years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a ban on interracial marriage, the rate of marriage across racial and ethnic lines in the United States is on the rise, according to a new ...
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) sees social media as the main reason for the rising number of Filipinos marrying or becoming partners of foreign nationals. In 2022, ...
George Kinyera and Olive Uwamariya have been married for two years and seven months. Their life as a couple from different countries and cultures has been rosy and a typical story of ... they lived ...