When Levi Duchman and Lea Hadad, members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, were married in front of more than 1,500 guests at the Hilton Abu Dhabi Yas Island hotel on Sept. 14, there was one moment so notable that it went viral on Instagram: a video of the Hasidic groom dancing joyously with his friend, Abdalla…
The unstable vertebrae in my back slipped regularly, half crippling me. This triggered my latent depression. Rather than hobnobbing with the other teaching assistants, I hid in my room. I missed my cat and my parents. I missed the man who loved me, his kind eyes and raspy laugh. Perhaps, I thought, God could still…
Jeffrey Allen White had always sworn that he wouldn’t date someone he went to school with. Then he met Chu En Wu. Both he and Ms. Wu, who is known as Joanne, were in other relationships in the fall of 2016 when she walked through a central gathering spot at the University of North Carolina’s…
When Dana Elise McKinney’s father introduced her to David Emanuel White Jr. at an event in October 2016, Ms. McKinney said she thought Mr. White was “slightly full of himself.” Mr. White had a different first impression of her. “I definitely noticed how beautiful she was, and it was clear that she was brilliant as…
When Courtney Elizabeth Dec attended her younger brother’s high school graduation party in the summer of 2016, she wasn’t the only one who noticed her older brother’s friend, Brett Alexander Lanham. Her mom did, too. “She politely told me to start dating her daughter,” said Mr. Lanham, 31, who had been friends with Ms. Dec’s…
When is a time capsule a treasure chest? When does a scrapbook read like a utopian syllabus? When is an art archive its own form of art? Answer: when the exhilarating exhibition “Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces” opens at the Museum of Modern Art this Sunday. The Manhattan gallery named Just Above Midtown debuted in…
Courtesy There’s no denying it: Here at ELLE, we love fashion—we’re a fashion magazine, after all. And we have a lot to say about it. From our favorite leather jackets for the season to the most comfortable pairs of high heels, we’re almost always talking shop(ping). Lately, though, we’ve been discussing one thing and one…
Barnard, the private women’s college in New York City, will begin offering abortion pills on campus next year, college officials announced Thursday. The decision, to take effect in September, signals how the nation’s colleges and universities are becoming another front in the nation’s pitched battle over abortion after the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe…
About half of the 14 contestants wore Americana garb: a shirt with a toile-esque pattern of bald eagles, red-white-and-blue camouflage, shortalls that looked like an American flag. Almost all wore wraparound sunglasses. Many sipped tallboy cans of beer as they shared tales of barbers, including one dramatic anecdote about a hairstylist being unreachable that morning…
In an October 2021 episode of his podcast, “Let’s Go! With Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray,” Mr. Brady was asked how he balanced his career with family life. “I think my wife has, you know, held down the house for a long time now,” Mr. Brady said. “And I think there’s things that…