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
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Musicologist Uri Schreter charts how US Jews have fused old traditions with new since arriving in the country

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

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

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

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

Police called in after shots heard at event in northern Arab town of Umm Al-Fahm; man released after questioning

Cops say the woman and others at the event are suspected of aiding the suspect escape arrest

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

Resident of Tamra suspected of providing friend with pistol to fire celebratory shots during ceremony; officers detain man at Ben Gurion in front of his wife