A Jewish wedding canopy, or 'chuppah,' made in the 1860s, from the Jewish Museum's collection. Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images Anita Diamant, the prolific writer and Jewish feminist ...

On the morning of my son Sam’s wedding in Cancun, all the female guests woke up bright and early and dressed in white to accompany Estrella, his beautiful bride to the mikvah. We drove away from our ...

Jews looking for a destination wedding spot that offers sun, sand and a fully halachic experience can now pick Jamaica, where a local Chabad house opened the island’s only mikvah. “I think this will ...

Water is a ubiquitous and potent symbol. It can mean life, from irrigation to amniotic fluid; it can mean physical healing or inner cleansing, as in the literal or symbolical cleaning of a wound; it ...

I had been selected for a 10-day workshop at Yad Vashem for Jewish educators and planned to arrive early and stay late. I was looking forward to spending time in Israel during the summer of 2012. I ...

ImmerseNYC looks to ‘large Jewish organization’ to buoy its pluralistic work; Brooklyn Chabad building new ritual bath to reach non-Orthodox. When Tehilah Eisenstadt was growing up in Plainview, L.I., ...

Around the country, Jewish communities have all but shut down, closing synagogues, canceling Passover seders, conducting funerals by Zoom. Yet one kind of Jewish public space has remained mostly open: ...

The 21st victim of the heinous bus bombing in Jerusalem last month was Rachel Weitz, 70. Her name probably flew by most of you. It almost flew by me, too, the first time I heard it on the 9 p.m.

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