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 ...