Join the Jewish Progressive Alliance for Marriage Equality
Bringing the Orange under the Huppah* is a grassroots campaign to bring spirited discussion of Marriage Equality to a central place in the Jewish community. To that end, PJA invites heterosexual couples who marry in Jewish weddings (as well, of course, as same-gender couples) to find a way to integrate into their wedding solidarity with same-gender couples who are still barred from marriage in so many ways.
s an organization committed to social justice, PJA believes Marriage Equality is a vital area for our work. We hope that you share our concern and commitment to working to bring support for marriage equality into the joyous marriage celebrations in the Jewish community. You will find an array of suggestions in our downloadable materials for readings and rituals. Please treat them as starting points as you make your plans for your wedding.
If you decide to join us in this campaign, we want to hear from you! Please send us an email at [email protected] describing what you end up doing as well as your thoughts in preparation for this step. We will post comments and stories on our website, creating a virtual “Reading Room” for reflection and ideas. If that’s asking too much, and you just want to let us know that ”you did it,” that’s fine. Just let us know your names and the date and location of your wedding.
For more resources please click here or follow the link: http://www.pjalliance.org/
*The original meaning of the symbolic “Orange on the Seder Plate” was focused on the marginalization of LGBT people in the Jewish community (see Addendum in attached materials). A "huppah" is a canopy used in traditional Jewish weddings.