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  • Their same-sex rabbinical wedding was a historic first for the Conservative movement

    11/11/2021 6:40:43 PM PST · by Salman · 32 replies
    Forward ^ | November 5, 2021 | Alix Wall
    (JTA) — You could call it bashert: 15 years after a landmark decision in Judaism’s Conservative movement that paved the way for gay and lesbian students to enter its rabbinical schools and for rabbis to perform same-sex weddings, it would seem like destiny that two Conservative rabbis would wed. Of course, it happened at Camp Ramah. Rabbi Ariella Rosen and Rabbi Becca Walker tied the knot at the Conservative movement’s camp in Palmer, Massachusetts, last month, with yet another queer woman rabbi, Megan GoldMarche, officiating. Rosen’s father, Rabbi Jim Rosen, also played a role. “It feels like we shouldn’t be...