Marriage Equality

“Bringing the Orange under the Huppah*:” Progressive Jewish Alliance Launches Marriage Equality Campaign Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) is launching a campaign to bring spirited discussion of Marriage Equality for same gender couples to a central place in the Jewish community.  To that end, PJA is inviting all couples planning to marry, and especially heterosexual couples who marry in Jewish weddings, to integrate into their wedding an element to mark solidarity with same-gender couples who are still barred from marriage. 

As an organization committed to social justice, PJA believes the freedom to marry is a vital area for its work.  PJA has created a Resource Booklet with an array of suggestions for readings, rituals, and other creative ways to bring the issue to the wedding table.  PJA's Resource Packet can be downloaded from its website: www.pjalliance.org or contact PJA to be mailed a hard copy:

Rachel Biale, PJA 409 Liberty st., El CErrito, CA 94530 510.527.8680 Rbiale@pjalliance.org

* The original meaning of the custom of putting an orange on the Passover Seder plate was to mark the marginalization of LGBT members of the Jewish community.  Details at www.pjalliance.org