Is there a bracha for boys to get married?”
Landman, then 13, said: “I don’t like girls. The class was discussing marriage blessings, or brachot, when Mr. Rick Landman, 61, of TriBeCa, remembered a longing even further back, expressed in Hebrew school at a Conservative synagogue in Queens. But what came back from the room was, ‘I want to hold my girlfriend’s hand.’ ” “Feminists and people like me wanted a revolution in our lifetime.
“We went around the room and asked people what they wanted,” Mr.