to the wedding of

July 25, 2010, 6:00 PM IDT

We, the “parents” of the bride and groom at the New Israel Fund family of religious pluralism organizations, invite you to wish the new couple mazal tov!

Yulia and Stas are marrying in a pluralistic Jewish wedding, on Tu B'Av (Jewish Valentines Day) next Sunday evening at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. The wedding is being organized by NIF and a range of NIF grantees including Havaya, which is providing the pluralist Jewish content for the marriage ceremony.

Yulia and Stas, like millions of FSU immigrants and their children, face discrimination and abuse when registering for a marriage license, since many cannot prove their Jewish identity to the satisfaction of the ultra-Orthodox rabbinical authorities. Despite their army service and Israeli citizenship, they are second-class citizens. The ultra-Orthodox hierarchy has a stranglehold on who is a Jew, who can be legally married, divorced and even buried in Israel.

Please send Yulia and Stas your best wishes below and you can watch more of their videos here:

And help NIF continue our fight for religious tolerance and pluralism, and for an Israel in which all citizens have real equality and freedom under the law! Give a gift in honor of Yulia and Stas by clicking on the donate button below.

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