Isabel Schenkel is a good example of a convert who was drawn to Judaism from childhood. She writes: ‘I was born in Scotland. I don’t think my parents knew any Jews at all. My family immigrated to Los ...
Data shows that as many as half of Israelis may have reexamined their bond with religion, with some finding new meaning in ...
Naga Chaitanya and his wife Sobhita Dhulipala celebrate their first Diwali together since their December 2024 wedding. In a ...
Erin Jones-Wesley and Nathaniel Green celebrated their love with a Los Angeles wedding that honored both of their cultures, ...
Jackson Mercer didn't think grief seriously affected his community of young Jewish adults. But he was wrong — so he did ...
A chuppah is used in many Jewish weddings, but how it's decorated can weave other cultures into the ceremony, too. Jason Finn/iStock via Getty Images Plus More than 10 years ago, I attended a college ...
The holiest Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, begins at sundown on Wednesday, Oct. 1, described as the Day of Atonement where fasting, prayer and repentance will take place for 25 hours. While Americans ...
Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. In the two years we devoted to planning our dream wedding, my husband and I ...
John Bissell, the former Colorado chef who has run the award-winning Southeast Portland restaurant Ava Gene’s for the past two-and-a-half years, is leaving the restaurant to open Dream Deli, a new ...
Samira Mehta receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation for work on Jews of Color. Traditional Jewish weddings share one key aspect with traditional Christian weddings. Historically, the ceremony ...