10 Couples Wed in the 22nd Annual Wedding Celebration

Pictured are the ten grooms with their officiating Rabbi’s from L-R: Rabbi Asher Alshul – Brooklyn, NY, Rabbi Mendel Zaltzman – Youth Director, Rabbi Shimon Aaron Rosenfeld – Crown Heights, Rabbi Dovid Wilansky – Administrator Rabbi’s Mordechai Kanelsky - Executive Director, Rossi Yossi Kanelsky – Regional Director, Rabi Boruch Lepkivker – Program Director Center, Rabbi Yechazkol Lebovic – Maplewood, NJ, Rabbi Pinchas Rabinowitz - Monsey, NY, Rabbi Berele Zaltzman – Community Development Director

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

Pictured are the ten grooms with their officiating Rabbi’s from L-R: Rabbi Asher Alshul – Brooklyn, NY, Rabbi Mendel Zaltzman – Youth Director, Rabbi Shimon Aaron Rosenfeld – Crown Heights, Rabbi Dovid Wilansky – Administrator Rabbi’s Mordechai Kanelsky – Executive Director, Rossi Yossi Kanelsky – Regional Director, Rabi Boruch Lepkivker – Program Director Center, Rabbi Yechazkol Lebovic – Maplewood, NJ, Rabbi Pinchas Rabinowitz – Monsey, NY, Rabbi Berele Zaltzman – Community Development Director

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.

Pictured are the ten couples, with Rabbi Mordechai and Mrs. Shterney Kanelsky