Father Andrew Damick, an Eastern Orthodox priest, examines the case of a Greek Orthodox same-sex couple who married in a New York ceremony. The legally valid ceremony uniting Daniel Storrs and Andrew ...

(JTA) — When Nadiv Schorer and Ariel Meiri were married on Sunday, the rabbi standing with them under the wedding canopy was breaking new ground, too. For Avram Mlotek, a rabbi affiliated with a ...

Experiencing pre-wedding jitters is quite common, even for well-organized brides like Ronit Travers and Roma Yee. The couple had meticulously prepared for their traditional Jewish ceremony over ...

I met my husband at a support group for former ultra-Orthodox Jews. There were a dozen of us there, sitting in a circle of chairs, talking about our challenging journeys out of our cloistered ...

The night before my wedding, as I was falling asleep, I realized that my fiance and I hadn’t discussed whether I would say anything under the chuppah, wedding canopy, in response to the pivotal words ...

(JTA) — As a teen, Nadiv Schorer felt a deep sense of grief when attending his older siblings’ weddings. After he realized he was attracted to men, he thought there was no way for him to build a life ...

More than 100 Orthodox rabbis have signed onto a statement in opposition to same sex weddings, saying that gay marriage is a “desecration of Torah values.” The statement was a response to a November ...

Police on Wednesday dispersed an ultra-Orthodox wedding held at an unexpected location — the Arab village of Kafr Qasim, east of Tel Aviv. The reason for the choice in locale was because the bride and ...

JTA — Officials in the Chicago area are struggling to uncover whether an Orthodox Jewish wedding that violated public health restrictions led to new COVID-19 cases in the hard-hit city. About 150 ...