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weddings

Melissa Saxe Blaustein and David Saxe asked their wedding guests to donate to four Bay Area art institutions instead of giving traditional gifts. (Courtesy Radostina Boseva)
Posted inFirst Person

How we turned our wedding into a celebration of tzedakah

Melissa Blaustein (Courtesy)David Saxe (Courtesy) by Melissa Saxe Blaustein and David Saxe December 17, 2025December 17, 2025

From the moment Dave got down on one knee in our Sausalito home and sent Bowie, our chocolate Lab, racing up the stairs to me with a ring tied around […]

a middle aged woman, an old woman, and a young woman in a wedding dress stand together smiling in a bridal store.
Posted inObituaries

Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, Holocaust survivor and bridal empire builder, dies at 99

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA April 17, 2023
A county in Utah allows anyone in the world to get a legal marriage certificate. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Why a county in Utah could play a role in Israel’s judicial crisis

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 10, 2023
A man leaves the offices of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, which does not recognize non-Orthodox conversions, posing problems for Reform and Conservative converts who want to marry in Israel. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
Posted inNews

In a blow to Israel’s religious establishment, Israeli court rules that online Utah marriages must be honored

by Ron Kampeas and JTA July 11, 2022July 11, 2022
Judy Penso and Marc Manason enjoying their wedding day, April 30, 2021. (Photo/Lisa Sibony)
Posted inUnions

‘It can happen at any age’: Single mother featured in 2001 J. article finds love, marries for first time at 61

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 21, 2021July 21, 2021
Ellen Spiro (left) and Rabbi Sydney Mintz at their wedding in San Francisco on July 26. (Marc Estoque)
Posted inUnions

Kumquats, Trump, a van and a Vespa: building blocks for everlasting love

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 26, 2019November 26, 2019
Karen Solomon and Matthew Schaefer with sons Emmett (right) and Desmond
Posted inUnions

Married in their hearts, it took 23 years and two sons to make it legal

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 11, 2019January 10, 2019
a flowery wedding canopy at sunset by the beach
Posted inOpinion

As rabbis of every stripe, we say it is time to abolish Israel’s Chief Rabbinate

by Ruach Hiddush December 6, 2018December 6, 2018
Nguyen and Koller walk down a hallway in their wedding outfits, holding hands — he is toting her oxygen tank behind himself
Posted inUnions

With her health deteriorating, a ‘miracle’ wedding in S.F.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 18, 2018October 18, 2018
Larissa Siegel and Rowan Solomon at their wedding reception (Photo/Gladys Jem)
Posted inUnions

They were meant to be, but had to break up to find out

Alix Wall by Alix Wall September 18, 2018September 18, 2018

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