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 ...

(JTA) — The Hamas attacks that claimed over 1,400 Jewish lives on Oct. 7 set off an intense period of global Jewish mourning. As Israel assembled troops for a possible ground invasion of Gaza, and ...

(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 ...

(The Conversation) — A Catholic friar under the chuppah? A bride in henna and a groom in a kippah? Many Jewish interfaith couples find ways to honor both of their faiths. (The Conversation) — More ...

This Jewish wedding posed an unusual challenge: the chuppah needed to clear the high-profile groom’s 6-foot-10 frame. Kevin Love, the former UCLA basketball star and veteran forward of the Cleveland ...

When Danya Lagos-Brown and Eliza Lagos-Brown got married in 2018, they knew they wanted a religious Jewish wedding. But instead of the standard ceremony, they crafted a personalized contract of ...

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 ...

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 ...