It is a ‘Vihi she’amda’ – not in words but in movement. ‘In every generation they rise up to destroy us, but the Holy One saves us from their hands’ ...

Celebrating the bride and groom is not just a mitzvah, but a hedge against the disappearing act of encroaching age. In Jami Attenberg’s 2013 novel “The Middlesteins,” there’s a chapter about a joint ...

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) — 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 ...

Upshtat Zingerai play Jewish simhah dance music for a wedding at the South Shore Cultural Center. From left to right: Emma Blau, Jonah Lazarus, Qi Yang, Hannah Mira Friedland, and Ethan Aronson Credit ...

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 ...