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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Zev Sero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name" target="_blank">zev@sero.name</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><br> </div>The marriage of two non-Jews certainly does have halachic validity;<br>the wife becomes an eshet ish. And a rabbi is absolutely permitted<br>to perform or supervise at a ceremony to make it so: I even know one<br>
non-Jewish couple who were married under a chupah by an Orthodox rabbi!<br>I couldn't make it, so I don't know exactly how different it was from<br>a standard chupah, but if I were to do it I'd probably just omit the<br>
shem umalchus from the brachot, and replace "kedat moshe veyisrael"<br>with "keminhag kol ha'amim". And translate it all to English.<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote>
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<div>Not so poshut at all. See Chelkas Yaakov EH 78, and Cahvos Yair 185.</div>
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<div>Akiva</div></div></div>