Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 2003 — Page 12

IN 12 January 22. 2003

Love Unites Female, Male Rabbinical Students

(By Harry Hoffman, The National Jewish Post & Opinion, July 3,1970) PHILADELPHIA - Sandy Lynn Eisenberg and Dennis Sasso, both 22 and both studying to become rabbis, were married last Friday night in a wedding unique in Jewish history. The ceremony took place at 6 p.m.in Congregation Keneseth Israel, in suburban Elkins Park, with Rabbi Bertram Korn officiating. As Rabbi Korn said to the bride and bridegroom standing under the chuppah: "Sandy and Dennis, this is an

historic wedding. For the first time in the story of Judaism, two students for the rabbinate are being wed." If she graduates, Mrs. Sasso will be the first woman ever to be ordained as a rabbi. The bride and her husband are both second-year students at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College here. Mr. Sasso is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Colman Sasso, of Panama City, Republic of Panama. The wedding ceremony was liturgically an unusual blending of diverse rituals in that it combined reform and

traditional aspects of both traditions. The marriage certificate was, in this case, composed by the bridal couple in order to, as they said, "combine the spiritual essence of the old certificate with contemporary concepts of mutual respect between man and woman in marriage." While it is customary for only the groom to pronounce the marriage vow, both said the ancient words, but in their own dialect. "You are consecrated to me according to the laws of Moses and Israel." Processional music played as the bride walked down the aisle was adapted from an old Sephardic melody from the island of Curacao. Mrs. Sasso, who grew up in Congregation Keneseth Israel, is a graduate of Temple University. Her husband was graduated from Brandeis University.

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