Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chuppah is used in many Jewish weddings, but how it's decorated can weave other cultures into the ceremony, too. Jason ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late last year I reported on a controversial topic of extravagant spending by some Southern California Iranian Jews on their wedding celebrations in this piece which was published in the L.A. Jewish ...

In every tribe and culture, a wedding is cause for a celebration. And all of those celebrations involve some degree of negotiation among the couple, their families, their cultures and their traditions ...

(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 ...

(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — After 18 months of barely performing any weddings at all, For Rabbi Howard Buechler of the Dix Hills Jewish Center on Long Island recently found himself with ...

I was told today that in early Jewish weddings, the groom would break bread and give it to his wife, representing that he would break his body for her. I want to know if this true. If it is true, then ...

More than 10 years ago, I attended a college friend’s wedding in New York City. My friend is Muslim, her husband Jewish. They were married under a Jewish wedding canopy made from the groom’s bar ...

(The Conversation) — Anita Diamant, the prolific writer and Jewish feminist activist, begins her book “The Jewish Wedding Now” with a simple statement: “According to Jewish law, the requirements for a ...