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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 341

Jewish wedding

Illustrative - An Orthodox Jewish wedding. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)
August 18, 2024, 2:43 pm
Half of Israeli Jews would prefer to marry in non-Orthodox wedding ceremonies — poll
Two-thirds of public backs lifting Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly on Jewish weddings to include Reform, Conservative, civil ceremonies; only ultra-Orthodox, far-right voters oppose
By ToI Staff
Gali Segal and Ben Binyamin seen on their wedding day, July 25, 2024. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 27, 2024, 4:51 pm
Couple who lost legs on Oct. 7 walk down the aisle together
Ben Binyamin and Gali Segal were maimed by terrorists’ grenades; after months of rehabilitation, they were wed on Thursday
By ToI Staff
Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron attends Knesset Finance Committee meeting on January 30, 2024 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 14, 2024, 1:42 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 14: Day 131 – Central bank wants action after Moody’s downgrade
Tech editor Sharon Wrobel discusses reaction to credit rating downgrade and overland imports as health reporter Renee Ghert-Zand looks at medication containers in Hamas tunnel
By ToI Staff
Shirel Tayeb and Reuven Lebetkin are married at Israel's northern border on October 23, 2023. Their planned wedding date took place during the Israel-Hamas war and they chose to move forward with changes. (Courtesy of Lebetkin via JTA)
October 28, 2023, 4:19 pm
Israelis are going forward with weddings despite war and loss in their own families
Unprecedented circumstances call for quick thinking and last-minute changes as rockets fall and men go to reserves – but for many couples the only unacceptable option is canceling
By Deborah Danan
Aaron and Tamar (Fest) Greene, dancing at their impromptu wedding on October 9. 2022, as Aaron Greene was called up for reserve duty (Courtesy Tamar Greene)
October 13, 2023, 2:06 am
As reservists mobilize, some moved up weddings as well
These three couples married as Israel went to war against Hamas, with the newlywed husbands heading back to the front
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: The 'chair dance' at a Jewish wedding. (Flickr/ CC BY-2.0/mariko)
June 12, 2023, 5:44 am
The hora, the hora! How American-Jewish wedding music changed its tune over the years
Musicologist Uri Schreter charts how US Jews have fused old traditions with new since arriving in the country
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The wedding of Maayan Rockland and Ariel Lewis, Ma'ale HaHamisha, February 28, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
March 2, 2023, 11:21 am
Bride’s joy turns to sorrow after Elan Ganeles killed driving to her wedding
Maayan Rockland’s childhood friend flew to Israel to be part of her happiest day; family shielded her from tragic news during celebration
By Lazar Berman
A couple prepares to step on a glass, a symbol in Jewish weddings, after their Jewish ceremony in Boston, February 7, 2023. (Igor Klimov via JTA)
February 11, 2023, 1:31 am
Boston Chabad marries 3 couples who were barred from having Jewish weddings in USSR
‘It was my dream’: Ukraine-born husbands and wives, married for a collective 125 years, stand under huppah for 1st time because religious ceremonies were illegal in Soviet Union
By Penny Schwartz
Brennon Lemieux and Alexa Alfia right after meeting for the first time on season 3 of 'Love Is Blind.' (Patrick Wymore/Netflix)
November 17, 2022, 6:25 pm
First Jewish star of ‘Love is Blind’ says antisemitic threats only make her stronger
American-Israeli citizen Alexa Alfia found love and a husband after putting her identity at the forefront during her appearance on Netflix’s wildly popular reality dating show
By Amy Spiro
Alex Zeldin and Tamar Caplan are lifted on chairs during their wedding reception, August 21, 2022. (JC Lemon Photography/ via JTA)
October 17, 2022, 8:50 am
When the Torah cycle ended, their Russian-American romance began
After reconnecting at a Simchat Torah event, Tamar Caplan and Alex Zeldin find chemistry — and matching Jewish ideals — and level up from friendship to lifelong love
By Alix Wall
The bride and groom, Ophir Haberer and Adi Aboody, exit the chuppah after the ceremony with family and friends applauding, June 4, 2022. (Luna Munn Photography)
August 16, 2022, 1:39 am
In California, a wilderness-inspired wedding celebration marries nature with Judaism
Adi Aboody and Ophir Haberer, who met through Wilderness Torah, a group of earth-focused Jews, mark their nuptials with an animal-skin ketubah and ‘first fruits’ altar
By Alix Wall
Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid plays during an NBA basketball game, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP/Matt Slocum)
July 20, 2022, 2:16 am
Sixers’ Embiid spotted dancing the hora at Jewish wedding
Philly NBA player attends nuptials of filmmaker who documented his journey from Cameroon to US basketball stardom, gets treated to traditional chair lift
By Gabe Friedman
Labor party leader Merav Michaeli attends a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 5, 2022, 6:23 am
Labor’s Michaeli won’t nix sitting with ultra-Orthodox, rules out merger with Meretz
Transportation minister says main problem cooperating with Haredi parties is that they have ‘chained themselves’ to Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Welfare Minister Meir Cohen (left) with MK Moshe Gafni at the wedding for Gafni's granddaughter Tamar Brecher, July 3, 2022 (screenshot: Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)
July 4, 2022, 5:05 pm
Israeli lawmakers unite for one evening at wedding for MK Gafni’s granddaughter
Nuptials attended by lawmakers from parties across political spectrum; Haredi public outraged after Labor’s Merav Michaeli is filmed dancing with bride
By Tobias Siegal
Drake poses for a photo with his many brides. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
June 18, 2022, 9:42 am
Drake’s new video features a Jewish wedding and 23 brides
Multi-platinum-selling artist invokes his Jewish background in an unorthodox wedding as part of the surprise drop for his new album ‘Honestly, Nevermind’
By Jackie Hajdenberg and Andrew Lapin
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