Marriage

Not your zaide’s kiddush: Jerusalem's young olim are reinventing the Shabbat kiddush

From apartments to synagogues, Jerusalem's young adults are reinventing kiddush as a social gathering that fits modern life.

Kugels and pickles: Classic noshes for both old-school and modern tables.
“JWed helps Jewish singles worldwide find lasting, committed marriages and their Jewish soulmate.”

Co-Founder Finds His Own Jewish Soulmate on JWed!

A young Iraqi girl who has reached the age of wearing a hijab, is clothed in the head covering worn by many Muslim women for the first time during a ceremony organised at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq's southern city of Basra on December 11, 2025.

Teenage girl murdered after refusing arranged marriage to cousin, Iraqi women’s rights group claims

One of the couples who got married this weekend in Kyiv.

Jewish couples get married in Kyiv for first time since war started thanks to weekend ceasefire


Freeing 'agunot': A lawyer's fight to help free Jewish women denied divorce

“I found it morally wrong to use the Torah to make women suffer or for revenge. I was always sure that God never meant for it to be used that way.”

 Shir Lavi Znati is seen addressing the Knesset.

'Monsoon brides': Economic desperation drives child marriages in flood-ravaged Pakistan

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah ordered an immediate investigation, including recommendations for addressing the problem.

A girl washes utensils along the banks of a canal at Khan Muhammad Mallah village in Main Nara Valley, Dadu district, Sindh province. August 3, 2024.

Tzachi & Yifat: A Jerusalem love story

On the Friday before Passover, in Fayge Park on Panim Meirot Street in Jerusalem, Tzachi put a ring on Yifat’s finger. The couple are to marry on September 16 in Ness Ziona. Mazal tov!

 Tzachi & Yifat.

Israelis want civil marriage, to break rabbinic monopoly in new Tu B'Av poll

When asked which way they would like their children to marry, assuming all options were available, only 50% of Israeli Jews chose an Orthodox marriage.

 Ten Israeli couples with a member serving in the IDF taking part in a mass wedding ceremony part of Chabad of Savyon’s “Marrying the Warriors”, in Tel Aviv Port, March 5, 2024.

Celebrating a wedding anniversary and an aliyah love story

We’re still here and as committed to this country as we are to each other.

 AN ISRAEL Aliyah Center ad in the ‘Jewish Bulletin’ featuring staged photos of the writer and his future wife, with suitcases plastered with El Al stickers.

Two Nova festival survivors who both lost their right leg got married

During the Hamas attack, the two were seriously injured, and hospitalized at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center and their respective right legs were amputated.

 A WEDDING canopy is seen against the backdrop scenery of the Mediterranean Sea.

Letters to the Editor, June 23, 2024: Look in the mirror

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

International Widows Day: The wives and children of the IDF’s fallen soldiers

The IDF Widows and Orphans has seen 260 new widows and 520 newly orphaned children access their support services since October 7.

 IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, June 4, 2024

An open letter to a grieving daughter: Choose life and light, get married - opinion

You, too, by marrying, choosing life, starting a Jewish family, will carry your father’s legacy, boost your grieving mother, and elevate us all.

 THE WRITER, held by his son, recognizes that now, the younger generation carries the older generation, in good times and in bad.

The origins of words and phrases about weddings

Let’s take a walk down the bridal path and explore some of the age-old customs we encounter along the way. But make room – because here comes the bride.

 ‘The Marriage of Queen Victoria,’ February 10, 1840 (George Hayter/Royal Collection)