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Fraidy Reiss is the founder and executive director of Unchained At Last, a non-profit that’s been battling arranged and forced marriages for the past 12 years. (Photo copyright Susan Landman via JTA)
March 28, 2025, 6:56 am
Child marriage banned in DC after push by Jewish advocates
Mayor signs legislation placing minimum age for marriage at 18, with no exceptions, as demanded by Unchained At Last, a Jewish-led organization that opposes underage marriage
By Grace Gilson
Vicky and Eilam Sher on their wedding day in 2020. They held a private ceremony not recognized by the State of Israel. (Courtesy)
February 21, 2025, 9:01 am
Avoiding the Rabbinate, 3,000 Israeli couples married last year in Utah’s ‘Zoom weddings’
New report by group promoting religious freedom says 67% of Israeli public supports recognizing all types of marriages in Israel, including civil, Reform and Conservative
By Rossella Tercatin
Freed hostage Mia Schem attends Elton John AIDS Foundation's 32nd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party on March 10, 2024, in West Hollywood, California. (Anna Webber / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
November 28, 2024, 10:18 pm
Former Hamas hostage Mia Schem engaged to childhood friend
Schem started dating Yinon Hasson after returning from her 50-day captivity in the hands of Hamas last year
By ToI Staff
Bride Esther and groom Steeve are carried on ornate thrones at their henna party in the week leading up to their wedding in 2007 in Casablanca, Morocco. (Courtesy of Indiana University Press)
February 14, 2024, 4:23 pm
Global mazel tov! New book chronicles weddings of 100 Jewish brides from around world
Women’s firsthand accounts illustrate the huge variety of customs associated with Jewish nuptials, while not shying away from pain and frustration about some practices
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)
January 8, 2024, 8:55 am
Couple weds in kibbutz where groom hid from terrorists on Oct. 7
Three months after fleeing Mefalsim under the cover of darkness, Omer Feinstein marries Tal Kashi in his now-evacuated childhood home
By ToI Staff
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, left, and Anca Faur arrive at the Kennedy Space Center for a visit in recognition of the Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary, Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
January 21, 2023, 4:25 pm
Turning 93, Buzz Aldrin marries longtime girlfriend
Second person to set foot on the Moon says he and his partner Anca Faur are ‘excited as eloping teenagers’ to be wed
By AFP
Real Madrid's goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois celebrates after winning the Champions League final soccer match between Liverpool and Real Madrid at the Stade de France in Saint Denis near Paris, May 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
June 4, 2022, 9:47 pm
Real Madrid’s Courtois said engaged to Israeli model Mishel Gerzig
Soccer star is seen down on one knee while Gerzig sheds tears of joy; model has previously said some are unhappy the Belgian soccer star is in a relationship with an Israeli woman
By ToI Staff
The banner in question flies across the Florida sky, August 2021. (Screenshot)
September 3, 2021, 4:20 pm
‘Antisemitic’ aerial banner actually a marriage proposal
Huge message to ‘Jew’ flown across Florida sky attracts both jokesters and antisemitism watchdogs
By Ben Sales
Jewish men wearing protective face masks pray at a synagogue in the Jewish settlement of Efrat, Gush Etzion, June 27, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
June 27, 2021, 1:22 pm
Daily Briefing June 27 – How does the Delta variant threaten vaccinated Israel?
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By ToI Staff
A couple in the midst of an argument (tommaso79 via iStock by Getty Images)
June 21, 2021, 6:06 pm
Unhappy marriages can be fatal, increasing male death rate by 19%: Israeli study
Misery during marriage is ‘risk factor just like smoking,’ say Tel Aviv researchers, leaving men 69% more likely to die from a stroke
By Nathan Jeffay
Israeli children watch as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a live press conference on the new government restrictions for the public regarding the coronavirus COVID-19 on March 19, 2020. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
March 28, 2020, 8:55 am
How to get through the virus lockdown with your marriage and family intact
A clinical psychologist and couples therapist gives some tips on how to survive under new pressures of pandemic rules
By Sue Surkes
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with members of a working group created to discuss constitutional amendments in Moscow, Russia, February 26, 2020. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
March 2, 2020, 6:47 pm
Putin proposes enshrining God, heterosexual marriage in constitution
Move comes after Russian president submitted for parliamentary vote far-reaching reforms many say are aimed at tightening his grip on power
By AFP
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting at the presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 6, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
November 6, 2019, 4:51 pm
Abbas bans child marriage, with some legal exemptions
Former PA women’s affairs minister Haifa al-Agha praises move, which she says will enable children ‘to live their childhood and receive an education’
By Adam Rasgon
Education Minister Naftali Bennett (L), Azriel Shilat (2nd-L), Oriah Cohen (2nd-R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) at the International Bible Quiz, which is held annually on Independence Day, in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2018. Shilat was the winner of the contest and Cohen was the runner-up. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)
October 16, 2019, 1:50 pm
Bible quiz winner gets engaged to runner-up
Azriel Shilat, who narrowly beat Oriah Cohen in last year’s contest, pops the question to her
By ToI Staff
Illustration (above and at top of article) by Avi Katz
October 7, 2019, 12:33 pm
Rabbinate DNA tests seek Jewishness in the blood, become a bone of contention
Controversial method began in Moscow, spread to Jerusalem and Sydney, as a private bid to confirm ex-Soviets as Jews. Now it faces a High Court challenge and a thunderous outcry
By Marissa Newman
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