These days, mail-order brides mostly reside in your spam folder, but in the 1800s, it was a booming industry in the American frontier, and an easy way for women to make it to the New World. And some ...

Before Anita Diamant wrote herself into Jewish literary stardom with her best-selling and much-loved novel “The Red Tent,” she was already an accomplished writer of both fiction and non-fiction. One ...

On Wednesday, Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute and others had the great privilege of meeting a bride (kallah in Hebrew) on her wedding day. It is an ancient custom, from the time of the ...

“No dowry, no wedding,” said Larry, who kept his bride and two hundred wedding guests waiting until midnight. He did not appear and the marriage was off. The “wedding” had been arranged by a ...

SURROUNDED by hundreds of men a veiled bride is led into her wedding ceremony by a ribbon. This is a rare look into an almost-ancient wedding style. An ultra-Orthodox Jewish bride enters the men's ...

PORT JEFFERSON, NY (AP) — With the beaming smiles of newlyweds, Paul Forziano and Hava Samuels hold hands, exchange adoring glances and complete each other’s sentences. Their first wedding dance, he ...