My younger sister is planning to marry a goy. Having resigned myself to the fact that it's happening, I feel very conflicted about whether to attend the wedding. On the one hand, my general hashkafa says no on the grounds that that would be giving an implicit stamp of approval (as the more observant older sister) to something I don't approve of (and could be complicated for me since, for example, food served will probably be treyf), but on the other hand I feel like my attendance might be better for shalom bayis and maintaining a relationship with my sister (and any future children she may have). I'm really not sure what to do here.

I'm a modern orthodox woman looking for a modern orthodox partner (gender doesn't matter to me) but all the orthodox guys I've dated are too right wing and all the leftist guys aren't orthodox enough. And I don't even know where to find orthodox wlw...any ideas?

Would you feel deeply upset, indifferent, or sympathetic if you heard that a fellow Jew lit a candle and recited Kaddish for their recently deceased dog in the privacy of their own home?

I've got a bit of a silly question

I have an interesting question: what would a non-binary Jewish 13 year old celebrate: A bar or bat mitzvah? Would it be personal choice, or aligned with their birth gender, or default to one or the other, or something else entirely? I’m very curious

I (Jewish) have a friend (not Jewish but our shared friend group has a lot of Jews) who is planning to marry his girlfriend. I recently found out that said gf is halakhically Jewish by matrilineal descent but seems to be completely secular and have had a fully secular upbringing. My friend has stated an intention to have children with his gf after they marry, which means those children would be halakhically Jewish as well. As an observant Jew in the friend group, I feel like I should do something to try to make sure those children are raised with at least some connection to being Jewish (even if not observant, at least knowing that they are Jews and having some cultural connection and/or observing some holidays etc) but ultimately I can't control how other people raise their kids. As such, I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions of how I could try to encourage this without proselytizing or pushing away my friends.

out of curiosity as someone who did not grow up observant and has not yet had to observe a yahrzeit, do kids ever "inherit" their parents' yahrzeits? like, if a parent lights a candle for a child's grandparent that the child never personally met, but the child participates in the mourning rituals alongside the rest of the family (including the yahrzeit candle every year), do they observe it even into adulthood/after their own parent has died, despite not having known their grandparent? or are yahrzeits more solitary observances that parents wouldn't share with children at all?