His objective: to force the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, to repeal its rabbinical ban on civil marriages. Matter of Form? Artist Barak met his fiancee, Oriah, soon after she arrived from ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A majority of Jewish Israelis support allowing civil marriage and divorce in Israel, according to a survey released for Valentine’s Day. Some 72 percent of Jewish Israelis ...

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OBJECTIVEThis article presents estimates of the relative contributions of school enrolment and educational attainment to the decline in consanguineous marriage. METHODSOur data comes from three rounds ...

This report examines Taglit’s long-term impact on participants with a special focus on their decisions about marriage and children. The findings are from data collected in 2013 for the fourth wave of ...

Beyond 10 days: Parents, Gender, Marriage, and the Long-term Impact of Birthright Israel presents findings from the 5th wave of a longitudinal panel study of several thousand Jewish young adults who ...

The law also prescribes that the only way to dissolve a marriage is through divorce at the religious courts, since they hold exclusive authority over divorce in Israel. This fact causes young ...