Monday, January 10, 2011

From Sepharadi to Ashkenazi?

Found at the NYT Weddings section (kippah tip: LB);

Janine Sherri Zacharia and Jeremy Noah Bailenson are to be married Sunday. Rabbi Arnold B. Marans is to perform the ceremony at the Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst, N.Y.

Ms. Zacharia, 37, will keep her name. She is the Jerusalem bureau chief for The Washington Post and reports on the Middle East. She graduated from Middlebury College.

She is a daughter of Debra S. Zacharia and Richard S. Zacharia of Melville, N.Y. The bride’s father is a vice president of the Granada Sales Corporation in New York, a maker of women’s loungewear.

Mr. Bailenson, 38, is an associate professor of communication at Stanford University and the founding director of the university’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, which studies the impact of virtual reality and the Internet on people’s daily lives. He graduated from the University of Michigan and received his Ph.D. in cognitive science from Northwestern.

He is the son of Eleanor Antonucci of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Neal A. Bailenson of Mount Kisco, N.Y., and a stepson of Myrna E. Bailenson. The bridegroom’s mother, who is retired, taught at the Frank G. Lindsey Elementary School in Montrose, N.Y. His father is the president and an owner of Normandy Repairs, a company in the Bronx that services electric motors and pumps.

Does this mean Janine will become Ashkenazi now?

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