This ‘Ride’ lacks personal touch Oct 10, 2009
There s an annual family outing to the Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, where her aging, ailing father enjoys the death-defying roller coaster rides; her earlier visit with him to Auschwitz, where his parents died; and her brother s impending nuptials - the result of an online romance - at a tacky Jewish wedding hall in Brooklyn. The script ranges from fond if semi-exasperated critiques of Kron s peculiar family members (one aunt carries cold breakfast sausages in her purse to fend... (Boston Globe)
Moscow circus casts monkeys as Jews Sep 23, 2009
Israeli living in Russia shocked to find anti-Semitism in capital's most popular circus as four monkeys enter ring for 'Jewish Wedding' skit ... During one of the Nikulin Circus skits, the performers simulated a "Jewish Wedding", with the leading roles being filled by four monkeys, acting as the bride, groom and their parents ... Nikulin Circus's 'Jewish Wedding' (Photo: Micky Saidov). (Harper's Magazine)
What a pity the bridal whirl has turned into So You Think You Can Dance Sep 5, 2009
Recently I became acquainted with the thrill of Jewish wedding dancing, where the purpose seems to be to whirl each other around so fast that someone is bound to lose an eye or dislocate a shoulder. Also up there is Indian wedding dancing, where even the grannies and great-aunts happily jump on the dance floor and wiggle their love handles. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Proof of Jewish heritage hurdle to marriage Aug 11, 2009
One of more than 300,000 Israeli Jews who cannot prove their Jewish identity, Mr Tarosyan said he and and Ms Samosvatov chose to raise awareness of their predicament by taking part in a public Jewish wedding service in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, last week. The service, performed by the marriage advocacy group Havaya, which conducts hundreds of private wedding services each year for Israelis not recognised as Jews by the state, was just like any other traditional Jewish wedding. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Woman trains to marry Jewish couples under water Jul 19, 2009
Now try it 20 feet under water and make it a Jewish wedding, where the groom is expected to smash a wrapped glass under his heel. No problem, says Debbi Ballard. (Montana Standard, MT)
INTERFAITH WEDDINGS seek comfort zone for both families (4) Jul 13, 2009
Published: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:23 PM EST From the time she was in middle school, Mayfield resident Shauna Reich knew she wanted to marry a Jewish man in a Jewish wedding ceremony and create a Jewish home ... Early on, Rabbi Stone directed Shauna and Dan to two books, The New Jewish Wedding by Anita Diamant and Celebrating Interfaith Marriages by Rabbi Devon Lerner ... She asked them to look at these resources and to come back with two lists: One should note the elements of a traditional... (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
What's old is new again (8) Jul 3, 2009
the european custom of tenaim is making a comeback at jewish weddings ... Published: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:39 PM EDT UNDER the heading Jewish Wedding Customs, one could say, Everything old is new again ... Additional proof that with Jewish wedding customs, what goes around comes around in more ways than just circling the groom. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Work-at-Home Mom and Web Entrepreneur Celebrates 2 Years of Selling Handmade Judaica Online Jul 1, 2009
" I select every item for its unique contribution to the Judaica collection. " Jewish Gift Place carries handmade Judaica including Hebrew bookends, Shabbat candlesticks, children's Judaica, Chai jewelry, a large collection, Shin jewelry, hamsa necklaces and wall hamsas, Jewish wedding rings, Kiddush cups, menorahs, mezuzahs, kippahs, seder plates, matzah trays, tallit, tzedekah boxes, Hebrew watches, sculptures, and over a thousand more pieces of handmade Judaica for every Jewish occasion. It... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Poland's First Gay Rabbi Settles Despite Community Strife Jun 28, 2009
The only photograph in their living room shows Katz and Gleason on the day they sealed their partnership which they refer to as a marriage surrounded by both their families, including Katz's sons and daughters, who are close to the couple and who showed their acceptance of the union with a gift of a ketubah, a traditional Jewish wedding certificate. Katz's journey away from Orthodox Judaism was part of his "coming out process," he explains, but also was influenced by the realization that some of... (Fox News)
How to handle jealousy at a wedding Jun 3, 2009
For the record, both parents rarely walk the child down the aisle, unless it is a Jewish wedding. If you are Jewish, and are faced with this, we do think you are handling it correctly by letting it go. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Married by the Maasai Apr 17, 2009
I don't speak Maa, but it occurs to me that our other option would have been a Jewish wedding, and I don't understand Hebrew, either. The proceedings are strangely intimate. (Slate)
A helping of ‘Mazel Tov’ Feb 20, 2009
James Hoak, dear friend of my son-in-law and now ours, whispered to me last Sunday at the orthodox Jewish wedding of my daughter s brother-in-law and sister-in-law ... Meredith Hochman and Andrew Weprin spent a year preparing for their wedding integrating many Jewish customs that have been performed at Jewish weddings for thousands of years ... I was overwhelmed with the emotion of the ancient, Hebrew words and intellectual melodies supplied by instrumentals from the Jewish Wedding Band. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
