Yehoshua Lowy, a former cocaine and heroin user, said he weighed 127 pounds and had track marks up and down his arms when he entered the Los Angeles-based Chabad Residential Treatment Center in 2010.

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The policy change makes Liberal Judaism the first Jewish movement in the United Kingdom to permit the chuppah to be used at an interfaith ceremony. (JTA) — Britain’s Liberal Judaism movement moved to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ketubah is a binding document in Jewish law that traditionally spells out a groom's responsibilities toward his wife − but ...

(The Conversation) — A Catholic friar under the chuppah? A bride in henna and a groom in a kippah? Many Jewish interfaith couples find ways to honor both of their faiths. (The Conversation) — More ...

(The Conversation) — Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her parents to her husband. But there are creative ways to ...

Traditional Jewish weddings share one key aspect with traditional Christian weddings. Historically, the ceremony was essentially a transfer of property: A woman went from being the responsibility of ...

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