Experiencing pre-wedding jitters is quite common, even for well-organized brides like Ronit Travers and Roma Yee. The couple had meticulously prepared for their traditional Jewish ceremony over ...

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn synagogue should be investigated over reports that it hosted a secret wedding with thousands of unmasked guests earlier this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “If that ...

(JTA) Weeks after one prominent Satmar wedding was publicly called off amid a backlash over convening guests during the pandemic, members of the Hasidic Orthodox sect held another wedding in Brooklyn ...

On Nov. 8, members of the Orthodox community were crammed inside the Yetev Lev temple in Williamsburg where no one was social distancing or wearing masks, for the wedding of Yoel Teitelbaum, a ...

(JTA) As a teen, Nadiv Schorer felt a deep sense of grief when attending his older siblings’ weddings. After he realized he was attracted to men, he thought there was no way for him to build a life in ...

“It’s become an event that’s associated with stigma and taboo and has created a sense of real division within the community,” said the founder of a tracing initiative for the city’s Orthodox Jews.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling on Mayor De Blasio to investigate reports of a Hasidic wedding with thousands of guests held earlier this month on November 8. The wedding would have been held just weeks ...

A Brooklyn synagogue should be investigated over reports that it hosted a secret wedding with thousands of unmasked guests earlier this month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. “If that happened, it was ...

Photographs published in the New York Post show Congregation Yetev Lev B’Satmar in Williamsburg packed with guests. The synagogue’s president recently died of COVID-19. (JTA) — Weeks after one ...