L’Chaim! It’s nearly time to celebrate for the 60,000 Israelis who, until now, were unable to marry in their own country because they are not Jewish according to Orthodox interpretations of Jewish law. And thousands of Jewish couples will be extremely jealous. A new marriage registrar, expected to be approved by the Israeli government within…
The 28-year-old funnyman proposed to his (also) 28-year-old girlfriend, writer and actress Lauren Miller, according to Life & Style magazine. “He surprised her with the proposal,” a friend of Rogen’s told the magazine. “She’d started giving up hope that he would ever pop the question.” The couple has been dating since 2004. Congrats!
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s eldest daughter, Adina Bar Shalom, is helping to train Haredi women for jobs in Israel’s high-tech sector. Meanwhile, secular Israeli women have a higher rate of workforce participation than do women in any other developed country, Haaretz reports. In a discovery that could help women undergoing cancer treatment preserve their fertility, scientists…
I’ve been summoned to give wedding advice. Well, I along with 156 other wedding guests. Two of my friends are marrying each other in Upstate New York. And while they’ve known each other since their Hebrew School days they’ve only begun dating as adults. It’s all very sweet and loving and good. This week they…
The title of Elissa Strauss’ essay in the Forward, “Embracing My Inner Balebuste,” caught my eye. Perhaps it’s a reflection of what I assume are a few years of difference in our age that I find the term “balebuste” loaded with provocative associations and Elissa can embrace the title with pride. On the other hand,…
Well it looks like the emasculated husbands who appear in the bulk of beer and car ads aren’t too representative of the typical American male. Men, it turns out, actually like being married and having a family. In a new survey from Askmen.com, 85% of men said they still believe in marriage, with 67% believing…
Over the past year I have been researching a book on the state of marriage today, known mostly as the clinical-sounding “companionate” marriage. I have been looking at the way today’s marriages differ from the marriages of previous generations, how it seems laden with expectations, and yet is wonderfully fluid and democratic. During this time…
I agree with Conor Friedersdorf, who in The Atlantic wrote that women should rebel against engagement rings. Friedersdorf argues: Why should women want to end diamond engagement rings? Well first of all, it’s your money too, presuming the wedding eventually occurs, and more than that, you’re the ones who are silently judged by status conscious…
דאָס געשעעניש האָט אַרויסגערופֿן פֿריילעכע געשרייען בײַ צענדליקער טויזנטער מענטשן אינעם „ערובֿניקעס־פּלאַץ“ אין תּל־אָבֿיבֿ.
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