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Gold Star Wives of America with Doug Jones at the United States Capitol in 2019.. The Gold Star Wives of America (Gold Star Spouses) (GSW) is a private nonprofit organization formed before the end of World War II that provides support for surviving spouses and children of those who lost their lives due to military service Armed Forces of the United States.
A detailed account of a levirate-type marriage in the Hebrew Bible is the unusual union of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar found in Genesis 38:8.The case is not strictly a case of yibbum as Judah was Tamar's father-in-law, and also the case pre-dates the biblical obligation.
Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother's widow. Levirate marriage has been practiced by societies with a strong clan structure in which exogamous marriage (i.e. marriage outside the clan) is forbidden.
a widow whose brother-in-law refused to perform a levirate marriage, and she consequently performs the Halitzah ceremony [43] Some of these prohibitions are biblical, and some are rabbinical. The Kohen Gadol (high priest) must also not marry a widow (Leviticus 21:14). He is required to marry a virgin maiden (Leviticus 21:13). However, if he was ...
Halitsah or chalitzah (Hebrew: חליצה, romanized: ḥəliṣā) in Rabbinical Judaism is the process by which a childless widow and a brother of her deceased husband may avoid the duty to marry under the biblical system of yibbum (levirate marriage) The process involves the widow making a declaration, taking off a shoe of the brother (i.e ...
The White House chief of staff blasted Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson for telling the press details of the president's call with a Gold Star widow.
For example, in Kenya, for the Nandi, it is infrequent for a widow to participate in levirate marriage, but for the Luo, widow inheritance is a cultural requirement. [10] Inheritance is often distinct from marriage, as "cleansing" practices often are a prerequisite for a widow after the death of her husband.
On the anniversary of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the tragedy of 13 service members killed at the Kabul airport, I am tortured by the death of my husband Chris and the destruction of ...