Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back to matchmaking, though. The great patriarch, Abraham, had a servant named Eliezer, who traveled to his home country in order ...

From the marriage contract to breaking the glass under the chuppah, many Jewish couples adapt their weddings to celebrate gender equality Traditional Jewish weddings share one key aspect with ...

(JTA) — When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought it might be cool to hire a klezmer band. This was during the first wave of the klezmer revival, when groups like The Klezmatics and The ...

More than 10 years ago, I attended a college friend’s wedding in New York City. My friend is Muslim, her husband Jewish. They were married under a Jewish wedding canopy made from the groom’s bar ...

It's a two part question. 1) Who is the "governor" of the feast? 2) Who is responsible for supplying the wine for the feast? I'm working on something and know of the 7 day period that the bride and ...

Traditional Jewish weddings share one key aspect with traditional Christian weddings. Historically, the ceremony was essentially a transfer of property: A woman went from being the responsibility of ...

The theme of the 6th Jerusalem Biennale — delayed until now due to the Oct. 7 attack and the war in Gaza — is tzon barzel, or, “iron flock,” which refers to a Talmudic concept that property a woman ...

I love weddings. Two weeks ago, I received word about a special wedding that was planned at an unlikely venue: a local Jewish school. I was so touched that a school had offered to host a wedding. But ...