Your Jewish Wedding
Welcome to Your Jewish Wedding with Rabbi LeighAnn.
Are you planning a Jewish or interfaith wedding? Are you lost on where to even begin planning the ceremony, let alone finding a rabbi to help you? It doesn’t matter whether one or both of you is Jewish, you deserve a guide.
Here on this podcast, I can be everyone's rabbi - yours too! My guests and I will share everything we know to help make your Jewish or interfaith wedding full of tradition AND perfectly yours.
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Remember - There is always more learning to do!
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 32
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
12 - The Ketubah - A Brief and Imperfect History
Rabbi LeighAnn reviews a brief history of the evolution of the ketubah, the Jewish Marriage Document, so couples can better understand the context when they are considering purchasing and signing one…
A Jewish Wedding Story - Erin and John
The FIRST episode in our "A Jewish Wedding Story" series!
I sat down with my neighbor and friend Erin to chat about her interfaith-Jewish backyard wedding. Officiated by her husband John's brother, i…
10 - Creating a Truly Interfaith Wedding Ceremony
Looking for tips and tricks for combining your faith/culture's wedding traditions with those of your fiance/fiancee's? You've come to the right place. Let's think creatively - It will be beautiful.
Do…
9 - Is a Truly Interfaith Ceremony Even Possible for Us? (Plus - Addressing Co-Officiation)
Concerned that your "interfaith ceremony" will actually turn out to be a single-faith ceremony with a shoutout or two to the "second-tier" tradition?
Don't write off an interfaith ceremony just yet! …
8 - Jewish Interfaith Marriage - Contemporary Perspectives
Now that we understand the historical context of Jewish Interfaith Marriage, let's talk about the ways it's viewed by Jews today.
Don't forget - you can reach me any time at www.yourohiorabbi.com.
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7 - Jewish Interfaith Marriage Part 1 - A Brief and Imperfect History
Confused about why Interfaith Marriage seems to be such a HUGE deal to so many Jews? Let's talk about it.
In Part 1, we'll go through a brief history of the Jewish people's relationship to intermarria…
6 - Premarital Counseling
Do I require premarital counseling as a wedding rabbi? No. Do I offer premarital counseling? Also, no. Do I suggest it? Sure! Well, most of the time.
1:00 Why I don’t offer or require premarital coun…
5 - Finding a Rabbi
You've decided you want a Rabbi for your wedding! How exciting. But...how in the world do you find one?
Part 1 - Determining your "must haves" and "must nots" BEFORE you start your search
Part 2 - (29…
4 - "But We're Not Religious!"
"But Rabbi, we're not religious! Do we have any business planning a Jewish wedding ceremony?"
Yep. For SURE. (What, you thought I'd be unbiased?)
In this episode, we'll dive into common reasons that …
3 - Saturday Weddings
Can we have a Jewish wedding on Shabbat? YES! And also...no. Okay....sort of. It depends on who you ask? Right. We need a longer explanation.
Join Rabbi LeighAnn for a deep dive into the laws, custom…
2 - Choosing a Date
Check the Jewish calendar first, THEN settle on your date.
I know that almost nobody finds a rabbi as the first thing on their planning list.That’s fine, I just want to give you the info you need so y…
1 - Do We Even Need a Rabbi?
Do we even need a rabbi for our Jewish or interfaith wedding? It's a question a lot of couples have...and nobody ever asks.
Spoiler: No, you don't. But listen for all of Rabbi LeighAnn's reasons that…