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Israeli Couples Say 'I Don't' to Orthodox Jewish Weddings

For most Israelis in the Jewish state, there is one legal way to get married - God's way.   Israeli law empowers only Orthodox rabbis to officiate at Jewish weddings, but popular opposition is growing to this restriction and to what some Israelis see as an Orthodox stranglehold on the most precious moments of their lives.   Some of Israel's most popular TV stars and models have come out this week in an advertisement supporting a new bill allowing civil marriage. A...


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