The first Jewish same-sex marriage in the Netherlands, was held in the synagogue of the Liberale Joodse Gemeente (Liberal Jewish Community) in Amsterdam on Sunday.
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The first Jewish same-sex marriage in the Netherlands, was held in the synagogue of the Liberale Joodse Gemeente (Liberal Jewish Community) in Amsterdam on Sunday.
From this week, Jewish same-sex couples can have a ceremony called a Brit Ahava, a convenant of love, to confirm their relationship in one of the community’s ten synagogues, Radio Netherlands Online reports.
The Amsterdam ceremony was not a global first, as Jewish same-sex couples have been able to get married in the US for five years. The Council of Rabbis of the Dutch Union of Progressive Jewry recently ruled that Jewish same-sex couples could henceforth have their relationship confirmed in a Jewish ritual.
Rabbi Menno ten Brink of the Amsterdam Liberale Joodse Gemeente said the ceremony is called a Brit Ahava to distinguish it from a heterosexual marriage and to give it a different meaning under Jewish Halachic law. He described the ceremony for same-sex couples as a first step in the ongoing development within the Jewish community.
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