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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

weddings

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
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
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
Screenshot from a video showing extremist Israeli Jewish wedding-goers celebrating the killing of the Dawabsha family. (screen capture: Channel 10)
May 11, 2023, 7:55 pm
Participants in infamous 2015 ‘hate wedding’ avoid jail time, get community service
Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court hands five guests who mocked victim of Jewish terror attack sentences ranging from 200 hours to five months of community work
By ToI Staff
Pictured left to right: Nancy Aucone, Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, and granddaughter Chloe Schachter at the Wedding Salon of Manhasset. (Courtesy Ilana Schachter via JTA)
April 15, 2023, 9:15 am
Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, mogul of ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ bridal empire, dies at 99
Holocaust survivor born in Vienna; family fled to Havana; foresight of ‘Miss Hedda’ to shift family business from fur to weddings transformed it into multi-million dollar entity
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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
Illustrative: Israeli students seen on the first day of school at a school in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 3, 2022, 1:46 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 3: Sex abuse in religious schools and railroad electioneering
Religion reporter Judah Ari Gross looks at sexual abuse stats and civil marriage via Zoom, and Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses train service and the Balad party
By ToI Staff
Illustrative. An Israeli man fires a pistol at a shooting range in Jerusalem on March 8, 2007. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 11, 2022, 7:07 pm
Groom arrested at own wedding for celebratory gunfire
Police called in after shots heard at event in northern Arab town of Umm Al-Fahm; man released after questioning
By ToI Staff
A bride is detained by police in her wedding dress in the town of Arraba in the Lower Galilee on August 28. 2022 (screenshot)
August 29, 2022, 5:17 am
Police arrest bride in wedding dress in northern town as wanted groom flees
Cops say the woman and others at the event are suspected of helping the suspect escape arrest
By ToI Staff
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
A man heading to his honeymoon is arrested at Ben Gurion Airport on suspcicion he supplied a gun that was used to fire in the air at his wedding, March 30, 2022. (Israel Police)
June 2, 2022, 12:33 pm
Honeymooning groom arrested at airport for gunfire at his wedding
Resident of Tamra suspected of providing friend with pistol to fire celebratory shots during ceremony; officers detain him at Ben Gurion in front of his wife
By ToI Staff
Couple takes part in a mass same-sex wedding in Tel Aviv, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
May 11, 2022, 1:00 pm
Same-sex couple wins NIS 80,000 from wedding venue that turned them away
After two women persisted in attempting to book the site, a representative explained to them that ‘we do not do such things’
By ToI Staff
Reality show 'Marry Me Now' from the Oprah Winfrey OWN TV network will air the show adapted from an Israeli format on March 19, 2022 (Courtesy OWN screen shot)
March 9, 2022, 11:59 pm
Oprah Winfrey network to air adaptation of Israel’s ‘Marry Me Now’
Eight brides take matters into their own hands, with help of relationship coach
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: An Israeli couple photographed for their wedding at a blossoming almond tree field in Latrun on February 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 14, 2022, 9:18 am
Groom seriously injured while dancing at his wedding
Man sustains major head injury after falling from height of about three meters
By ToI Staff
Ben and Julie Schreiber were married October 10, 2021, in Kirkland, Washington, under a huppah whose design incorporated blessings from their friends and wedding guests. (JennyGG Photography/ via JTA)
January 14, 2022, 10:44 pm
In a creative COVID union, wedding guests helped craft the huppah and ketubah
Wanting to be surrounded by loved ones but aware some may not feel safe attending, Julie Plaut Warwick and Ben Schreiber literally construct their canopy out of mailed-in blessings
By Alix Wall
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