An ancient Jewish ceremony, the signing of the marriage contract, known as the ketubah, took place at the Volozhin Yeshiva.

“One person ‘tashliched’ their wedding ring into the river,” Rabbi Deborah Newbrun recalled about the first “Divorce & Discovery: A Jewish Healing Retreat.” (J. The Jewish News of Northern California ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Jewish wedding canopy, or 'chuppah,' made in the 1860s, from the Jewish Museum's collection. Fine Art Images/Heritage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — For Lyssa Jaye, throwing the wood chips into the Tuolumne River felt in many ways familiar to the tashlich ritual performed on Rosh Hashanah. But ...