"An American Bride in Kabul," by Phyllis Chesler, won the National Jewish Book Award for best memoir of 2013 by the Jewish Book Council One of the wonderful things about her receiving First Prize for ...

A Jewish woman and her non-Jewish partner were among the first same-sex couples to be married in Britain hours after a law permitting such marriages went into effect. Nicola Pettit, 29, who is Jewish, ...

I was 5 years old when I realized that I was a freak show. In Macon, Ga., good ole boys go huntin’, muddin’ and beer guzzlin’. Peroxide blondes drive pick-up trucks with gun racks. Prayer kicks off ...

NEW YORK (RNS) She is serene and dignified (perhaps even a little bored). Her eyes are slate blue and her lips bee-stung. She wears the marriage finery of early 20th-century Orthodox Judaism: a ...

On stage, an actor and actress can appear perfectly in love during their duet or dance number. Yet, after the curtain goes down, they can’t stand each other’s guts. This happens more often than you ...

The Yemeni Interior Ministry said Sunday that it would not investigate a Jewish bride who eloped with a Muslim man then converted to Islam so she could marry him, to the shock of her relatives and ...

At a recent henna celebration at the Yemeni Heritage Center in Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel, the bride had three ensemble changes, each representing a city or region in Yemen. Although both the bride and ...

On Wednesday, Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute and others had the great privilege of meeting a bride (kallah in Hebrew) on her wedding day. It is an ancient custom, from the time of the ...

These days, mail-order brides mostly reside in your spam folder, but in the 1800s, it was a booming industry in the American frontier, and an easy way for women to make it to the New World. And some ...

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