Contents:
- NYC REAL ESTATE BROKER JARED SELIGMAN IS COUNTG DOWN TO HIS BIG GAY ORTHODOX JEWISH WEDDG
- A JEWISH GAY UPLE RO TO THEIR WEDDG ON A UNIRN… AND THAT’S JT THE START
- MY SON’S BIG FAT GAY JEWISH WEDDG ISRAEL
NYC REAL ESTATE BROKER JARED SELIGMAN IS COUNTG DOWN TO HIS BIG GAY ORTHODOX JEWISH WEDDG
First ed at a gay Jewish weddg 1986, the br ahuvim, or lover’s ntract, rporat the stcture of a shtar shutafim, or bs partnership.
A JEWISH GAY UPLE RO TO THEIR WEDDG ON A UNIRN… AND THAT’S JT THE START
For their weddg, Greenberg and Cohen turned to Rabbi Steve Greenberg, the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi, to velop a ceremony which bed bs partnership ntracts wh Jewish tradns of vow-takg and oaths to create a bdg agreement of obligatns unr Jewish law. “There were not that many halachilly mted gay Jews out there who were tryg to get married wh the purview of halacha, and really took serly, ” she said.
MY SON’S BIG FAT GAY JEWISH WEDDG ISRAEL
“My biggt fear was that my parents would go to shul and people would say, ‘oh, they’re the parents of that gay girl, ’” Lnbm said “And that is exactly what happened, but my parents were so proud of . They’re among many gay Jewish upl rooted tradnal observance who see their weddgs as not jt personal celebratns, but public exampl of what’s possible the observant muny more broadly.
“I wanted this feelg of faiary for people to whom gay love is unfaiar, ” Lnbm said.