Marriage

After months apart on reserve duty, married Israeli couples face a new challenge at home

A 2024 study, published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, of couples during the current war found that wartime stress sharply reduces sexual well-being and emotional closeness.

 An IDF reservist kisses his child before boarding the bus, in Jerusalem, May 2025.
 The groom hugs the bride from behind, the bride holds a wedding bouquet. (illustrative)

Chief Rabbinate Council sets new financial range for ketubahs

‘NO MAN is an island, entire of itself...’

Parashat Ki Tetze: Set adrift on the island of Elul

UNDER THE HUPPA.

Parashat Ki Tetze: Creating a deep bond and the secret of marriage


Five Jewish couples marry in Brazil in front of 900 young Jews from former Soviet Union

The five couples were Ruslan and Esther (Anastasia), Eliezer (Evgeny) and Elena, Asher (Stanislav) and Malka (Alexandra), Meir (Mark) and Polina, and Netanel (Bogdan) and Michal (Veronica).

FIVE JEWISH couples get married in Brazil on Lag Ba'omer.

Lost in translation, found in love: Ariana Phillips’s path to marriage in Israel

After matriculating at Washington University in St. Louis and participating in Chabad and Hillel activities on campus, Phillips's interest in Judaism grew.

PHILLIPS and COHEN on their wedding day.

He went to work as usual: Husband investigated for burning wife's body in zoo’s animal incinerator

The events unfolded while Asahiyama Zoo has been shut for seasonal maintenance

A brown bear gnaws at the cage it is trapped in in Sunagawa, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan October 16, 2024.

Margot in New York: The collection that reminded everyone why the ’90s never die

COLLAGE, Margot’s new collection, takes the confidence of the ’90s and dresses it in 2026 - and somehow, it works perfectly.

Margot Maison’s COLLAGE collection.

While dating swipes decrease, JWed.com Marriages increase to record 4,100!

JWed Married Couple.

4 million cancer cases studied: People who do not marry face as much as 85% greater cancer risk

Researchers and experts note that several health advantages frequently track with marriage in population studies.

A bride covers her face as she waits to take her wedding vow at a mass marriage ceremony at Bahirkhand village, north of Kolkata February 8, 2015. (illustrative)

Inside Chiburim: Yaron Shane’s mission to help IDF soldiers find Love After War

Yaron Shane shares how Love After War connects Israel’s soldiers and veterans with mentors and potential life partners.

YARON SHANE: Members remain in the database ‘until they break the glass.’

Pressure builds on Palestinian girls to marry as Gaza sees rise in child marriage rates - UNFPA

The likely cause of the increasing number of child brides seen in the Palestinian territory is the displacement, poverty, and collapse of social, legal, health, and protection systems.

(ILLUSTRATIVE) A homeless Palestinian bride walks with her mother (R) during her wedding ceremony at a United Nations-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians from the Israeli offensive, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 17, 2014.

Dutch registry study: Children of divorce have fewer children and shorter relationships

The marriage duration of children from divorced families was, on average, about one year shorter than that of other people.

Marriage and divorce today are profoundly different.

From tragedy to protection: The fight against agunah status - opinion

Jewish families can protect wives from agunah status through halachic prenups and wartime authorizations, ensuring resilience even in tragedy.

Photo of Sarah M., one of the 12 cases resolved this month by Yad La’Isha of Ohr Torah Stone.