(JTA) — For the third of their three weddings, Hallie Applebaum and Elan Raffel set up a chuppah ... Jewish life? Not so much. Nonetheless the couple chose there to wed in an egalitarian Jewish ...
Three thousand guests attended the ceremony, where the couple stood beneath the chuppah (traditional Jewish wedding canopy). The wedding host announced that this was going to be “the chuppah of ...
Jewish law. These may include practicing “shomer negiyah” – not touching each other at all, from the moment the couple meet until they stand under the chuppah, or wedding canopy. The couple ...
My cousin’s eldest son fell in love with a childhood sweetheart whose family is part-Greek. It was a match made in the ...
Rivka Lazar, daughter of the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar, and Sholom Wolf, son of the Chief Rabbi of Odessa and Southern ...