Hillside, NJ --Ten days after arriving in this country, a Jewish couple celebrated their marriage with a traditional Chuppah wedding. Shimon and Inna had been denied a religious celebration when they were civilly married in the Ukraine. The couple heard about Bris Avrohom, in Hillside, New Jersey, and decided to come to America, with other family members, to partake in their 22nd Annual Wedding Celebration.
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10 Couples Wed in the 22nd Annual Wedding Celebration
Hillside, NJ –Ten days after arriving in this country, a Jewish couple celebrated their marriage with a traditional Chuppah wedding. Shimon and Inna had been denied a religious celebration when they were civilly married in the Ukraine. The couple heard about Bris Avrohom, in Hillside, New Jersey, and decided to come to America, with other family members, to partake in their 22nd Annual Wedding Celebration.
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On Sunday, June 3rd, Bris Avrohom held its Annual Wedding for ten couples from the Former Soviet Union. The annual event began 22 years ago by Milton and Shirley Gralla, and Rabbi Mordechai and Shterney Kanelsky. Since 1985, close to 500 couples have celebrated their marriages according to Jewish law at Bris Avrohom’s annual event.
Bris Avrohom’s “Celebration of Religious Freedom” was especially poignant this year as the couples included two sets of sisters and their husbands and a mother and daughter with their husbands in addition to the couple from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
Each couple participating in this year’s wedding received gifts from Bris Avrohom with special Jewish value including a silver Kiddush cup, silver candlesticks, a Siddur, the Five Books of Moses with commentary, a book of Psalms and a Tanya. In this way, the couples can begin their new married lives in the spirit of Yiddishkeit.
ashirah
Mazel Tov!
Racheli
Yashar koach!!! I have friends who got married last year, BH, because of this amazing program. Thank you Rabbi Zaltzman!!