In the Charedi community, people marry at a very young age, and all marriages are arranged. This makes navigating the dating scene a particularly daunting task for those who choose to leave. We spoke to three GesherEU members about their experiences of dating and finding love in the secular world. Motti was not yet 17 […]
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Jewish marriage in the modern age
Thinking hard about the nature of the Jewish wedding ceremony can be a disturbing undertaking. As soon as we do so, we discover a dissonance between how we may conceptualise relationships between men and women and how they were understood by the Tanach and the rabbinic tradition. Early sources describe a world of relationships that […]