This is a fairly rare ceremony in which the brother of the deceased declares that he will not marry the bereaved widow. We’ll explain the origins of this law and some of the controversies that ...

South Florida’s Jewish marriage and dating specialists bear no resemblance to “Yenta the Matchmaker” from “Fiddler on the ...

FRANTZMAN) These pages have seen many articles about agunot (Jewish women chained to their ... In contrast to the victim of get-refusal, the war widows desperately wanted to stay with their ...

But Libby Kahane, widow of the late far-right Rabbi Meir Kahane ... She believes the Israeli left, Jewish media and some American Jews – particularly college students – are hurting Israel.

By 124, Jesus had left Babatha a widow with a young son—and left her ... (He also had another wife, Miriam—polygamy was still permitted in Jewish life at the time.) When Judanes passed on ...