by Laura Silver

In this week's New York Times magazine, Gershom Gorenberg tells the story of an Israeli woman who had to prove she was Jewish to be married under the state's Orthodox rabbinate, the only body which grants marriage licenses in that country. The Israeli-born bride, the daughter of a Jewish-American mother and a non-Jewish British father, enlisted American relatives to search for her grandparents' marriage certificates and take photos of her ancestors' gravestones.

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