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In the Jewish community, controversy surrounds rabbinic officiation at weddings for interfaith couples: Not all denominations of Judaism permit their rabbis to do so, and some rabbis who are permitted still choose not to.

Edmund C. Case: Interfaith Weddings: What Chelsea Clinton's Ceremony Might Look Like 2010

Recent decades have brought many advancements for the GLBT Jewish community: the establishment of GLBT synagogues, gay/lesbian haggadahs, the ordination of gay/lesbian rabbis, rabbinic officiation at GLBT commitment ceremonies, and much ritual and liturgical innovation.

June - GLBT Pride 2010

In the Jewish community, controversy surrounds rabbinic officiation at weddings for interfaith couples: Not all denominations of Judaism permit their rabbis to do so, and some rabbis who are permitted still choose not to.

Edmund C. Case: Interfaith Weddings: What Chelsea Clinton's Ceremony Might Look Like Edmund C. Case 2010

But officiation aside, what would the Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding look like if the couple chose to incorporate elements of Jewish tradition?

Edmund C. Case: Interfaith Weddings: What Chelsea Clinton's Ceremony Might Look Like 2010

But officiation aside, what would the Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding look like if the couple chose to incorporate elements of Jewish tradition?

Edmund C. Case: Interfaith Weddings: What Chelsea Clinton's Ceremony Might Look Like Edmund C. Case 2010

Religious officiation at homosexual unions is not common but it is becoming less rare.

Balkinization 2005

And people are preparing for what will start off the solemn commemorations, the solemn officiation of the Catholic liturgy, the Catholic events that will take place over tomorrow and the next few days, leading up to his funeral and beyond.

CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005 2005

And no amount of officiation and deception on the Western press should obscure that.

CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2001 2001

By mixing with a fallen person for one whole year in such matters as officiation in sacrifices and teaching sexual congress, one becomes fallen.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

Religious rites, beneficial ceremonies, the performance of sacrifices, officiation at the sacrifices of others, gifts, the doing of other meritorious acts, the performance, according to the best of one's power, of all that has been ordained in the case of one's deceased ancestors, -- all these one does for benefiting one's own self.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli