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 ...

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 ...

(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 in ...

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 ...

In the Haredi city of Bnei Brak, Israel, at the Ahuzat Wagshel wedding hall, one spunky Orthodox bride has caused a stir. The newlywed, nineteen years old and high on the joy of her own wedding ...

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 ...

4 arrested after ultra-Orthodox wedding violates coronavirus restrictions Father of the groom, an American citizen, was meant to be in self-isolation, but attended along with some 150 participants By ...

Photographs published in the New York Post show Congregation Yetev Lev B’Satmar in Williamsburg packed with guests. The synagogue’s president recently died of COVID-19. (JTA) — Weeks after one ...

As has been widely reported, Rabbi Steve Greenberg performed a Jewish wedding ceremony for Yoni Bock and Ron Kaplan last week, a ceremony being referred to in at least one press account as “the first ...