Nishima Kaplan's Fine Art for the Jewish Wedding. A Ketubah as Unique as your Love.
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Book Description
The first comprehensive wedding guide specifically for the Jewish/Christian couple who wants to honor both religious traditions in their service, vows, and readings.
This book has received mixed-reviews, but judge for yourself.
Interfaith marriages are a fact of American life, especially in the Jewish community, where approximately 50 percent of young people marry outside their faith. Editor Hawxhurst, a practicing Methodist who is married to a Jew and publishes a newsletter for interfaith couples, knows her subject firsthand.
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer is a wonderful author (and woman) with a terrific book. Nishima's artwork is featured on the back cover and inside. Not an interfaith wedding book per se, but filled with easy to understand descriptions of everything you need to know.
This guide to Jewish weddings will be best appreciated by those who are new to Judaism, those who wish to adapt tradition to personalize their Jewish wedding or those who want to incorporate elements of the Jewish tradition into an unconventional or interfaith wedding ceremony.
From a Reader Review: "This is the best book we read on Jewish weddings. It is helping us a lot on the hard process of deciding how a meaningful-to-you Jewish wedding should look like. The author does not dictate any custom based on tradition or halakha. She gives you explanations to all the different aspects of the Jewish wedding, and it is up to you to decide."
Out of print, but still available.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson Dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. Diamant is a treasure. She has become teacher and sage to thousands. The New Jewish Wedding was great before -- now it is essential.
This was (and remains) a very influencial book for Nishima. Highly, highly recommended.
The great modern Jewish mystic, Aryeh Kaplan, on weddings. A treat.
From a Reader Review: "This is one of the best books ever written on the subject of Jewish marriage. I can't recommend it enough! I think that anyone getting married, already married or considering marriage needs this book...Classic!"
Rachel Adler provided Nishima with "The Lover's Covenant/Brit Ahuvim" text which we still use. She is an incredible speaker, a great mind and a living Jewish treasure. This is not a wedding book per se, but a must-read for any 21st Century Bride (and her egalitarian Fiance.)
From Reform Judaism Magazine:
"In this passionately argued envisioning, Adler insists that theology and ethics are meaningful only in practice and proposes strategies, through interpretations of classic texts, that point the way to a 21st-century Judaism of full gender equality."
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