BOSTON (JTA) – Veiled brides holding white bouquets; a gold-colored chuppah; the signing of ketubahs, Jewish marriage contracts; lively Jewish music wafting through a social hall as guests danced the ...
A Jewish wedding canopy, or 'chuppah,' made in the 1860s, from the Jewish Museum's collection. Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images Anita Diamant, the prolific writer and Jewish feminist ...
Three long-married couples from Ukraine who weren’t able to have a religious wedding decades ago amid Soviet suppression of religion celebrated Tuesday evening with traditional Jewish wedding ...
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 ...
Eight Jewish couples took part in eight simultaneous Jewish weddings Sunday, some of whom were restricted from getting married in a religious ceremony in the former Soviet Union. The weddings were ...
The weddings were a training exercise for rabbinical students at Shaloh House, a Chabad initiative in Boston serving Russian-speaking Jews. BOSTON (JTA) – Veiled brides holding white bouquets; a ...
Some of them had also designed their ceremonies to reflect feminism and marriage equality – something that the interfaith weddings had in common with many weddings where both members of the couple ...