Rating: Summary: This book is informative, interesting and helpful. Review: The New Jewish Wedding Book was an amazing resource for me as I planned my wedding. It provided information about different traditions so that my husband and I could make our ceremony unique and special. I would recommend it to every Jewish bride.
Rating: Summary: Valuable Resource! Review: This book is an excellent guide for planning a Jewish ceremony. While most wedding books spend more time on the reception, this book emphasizes the ceremony. Diamond explains many wedding traditions that allow you to plan your own ceremony. For example, she offers different translations of the 7 blessings, so you can choose your own. Her book will help my fiance and I to plan a personalized ceremony.
Rating: Summary: The New Jewish Wedding Review: This book was a helpful text for planning a jewish wedding. It has excellent slugs for writing a Ketubah and knowing the different options you have to make a wonderful wedding.It worked for us!
Rating: Summary: A Life Saver Review: Though my fiancee isn't a religious person, he's not Jewish. But we are having a "Jewish" wedding. In her book, Anita Diamant dismisses such relationships and marriages in a rather disparaging way. She seems to think that if you're not both Jewish, the other had better convert (like *her* husband did.) I don't like the tone of this book at all. It is chock-full of fabulous facts but it talks to the reader in a holier-than-thou tone that I, for one, can't stand.
Rating: Summary: Thorough but not good for inter"faith" weddings Review: Though my fiancee isn't a religious person, he's not Jewish. But we are having a "Jewish" wedding. In her book, Anita Diamant dismisses such relationships and marriages in a rather disparaging way. She seems to think that if you're not both Jewish, the other had better convert (like *her* husband did.) I don't like the tone of this book at all. It is chock-full of fabulous facts but it talks to the reader in a holier-than-thou tone that I, for one, can't stand.
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