If You Have Love, Does Marriage Matter?

By Ilana Angel
Published on January 13, 2013

Marriage, family pressure and Jewish geography

By Pini Herman
Published on March 14, 2012

What is the difference between a pit bull and a Jewish Mother? The pit bull eventually lets go.

Brachas vs. bluegrass: moms make the switch

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on October 5, 2006

The Season premiere of FOX's "Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy." The very intriguing but highly unlikely pairing of a Shomer Shabbos Jewish family from Brookline, Mass. (near Boston), and a coon-huntin' family from Olympia, Ky.

Book review: The Divorce Lawyers’ Guide

Published on October 5, 2006

Author and former practicing attorney Wendy Jaffe has written an interesting and illuminating work called, "The Divorce Lawyers' Guide to Staying Married."

Ten Commandments for a Happy Marriage

By Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwad
Published on November 10, 2005

H.O.P.E. for Los Angeles’ Bereaved

By Jane Ulman
Published on August 4, 2005

I felt like a third wheel," Shirley said. "I never felt more alone," Diane said. "I felt my oneness," Helene added.

Discovering Keys to Lasting Matrimony

By Sheryl P. Kurland
Published on May 5, 2005

In the late 1940s, Ron Farrar's and Joan Pachtman's passion to help those in need charted the course for personal passion and lifelong matrimony. The West Hills residents met in college, when Ron was a member of a veteran's organization and Joan belonged to a service club.

Widows, Widowers Seek Ways to Cope

By Gaby Wenig
Published on July 31, 2003

When Esther Goshen-Gottstein's husband of 39 years died, she felt like her world had crumbled. "The bottom had fallen out my life, as in an earthquake, when the ground on which one has stood firmly for years suddenly collapses," she writes in "Surviving Widowhood" (Gefen, 2002).

Single in the City

By Rachael Brickman
Published on March 7, 2002

It's 8 p.m. on Friday and a large crowd has gathered in front of Congregation Ohab Zedek (O.Z.) on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Marital Bliss

By Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Published on October 29, 1998

A story is recorded in the inspiring biography about the late Jerusalem rabbi Aryeh Levin, "A Tzaddik in Our Times." One of the rabbi's students was about to be married when he came to Reb Aryeh and asked: "How should I behave toward my wife? How should I treat her?" Reb Aryeh looked at him in wonder and said: "How can you ask a question like that? A wife is like your own self. You treat her as you treat yourself."