Drew Barrymore...37-year-old actress is said to have set the date for her nuptials to fiancĂ© Will Kopelman with the couple said to be wed on June 2...Eonline.com reports the pair are marrying at her Montecito estate in California in a ‘personal and intimate’ affair.
in keeping in line with the traditional values of Kopelman's close-knit family, his family rabbi is expected to conduct the service.
The rabbi even did themed ceremonies, such as a Dr. Seuss wedding.
Besides, she added, a Jewish wedding was neutral territory.
Melanie and Michael Pezzula walk down the aisle, husband and wife, after their wedding ceremony. Though neither Melanie nor Michael is Jewish, the couple incorporated many Jewish traditions into their wedding...The inclusion of so many Jewish traditions in the ceremony uniting Melanie, raised Episcopalian, and Michael, raised Catholic, was their way of making their wedding special, they said. A Jewish wedding was “a refreshing departure from what everybody that is close to us is used to,” Melanie said.
The bride wore an ivory A-line strapless gown accented with crystal beads on the bodice and train. Color theme for the wedding was fuchsia.
a vivid reddish or pinkish purple color named after the flower of the fuchsia plant, itself named after the German scientist Leonhart Fuchs. Fuchsia is a synonym for magenta. There is also a somewhat redder and slightly less saturated hue termed fashion fuchsia (see below) that is used in women's fashion (it is also called Hollywood cerise).
Katherine Fong and Dov Baer Scheindlin, both of New York City, were married Sunday, Aug. 22 in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Brooklyn, N.Y. Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, mother of the groom, officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Dr. Don Leon Fong of Amarillo and the late Lily Agnes Fong. The groom is the son of Judge Shira A. Scheindlin and stepfather Dr. Stanley Friedman and Dr. Raymond P. Scheindlin and stepmother Janice Meyerson, all of New York City. Grandmother is Miriam Samon, who attended the wedding.
As a handful of guests watched, the couple said various vows, some traditional and some their own, as they stood with Rabbi Burt Aaron Siegel, who officiated, and the Rev. Michael C. Lindvall, a Presbyterian minister.
...The couple had been introduced in July 2006 at the Seattle wedding of mutual friends. At the reception, the talkative and twinkle-eyed Mr. Levinson, who had worked in the West Bank and Pakistan...
...Mr. Levinson said, “I don’t think people with backgrounds as different as ours could have gotten together in many places, and New York is one of them.”
And then he was gone. While he worked with a provincial reconstruction team in Iraq, Ms. Guiahi dealt with a different kind of risk: co-managing her first portfolio at Diamondback Advisors as the financial markets crashed.
...(He is now an adviser with the State Department in Washington on Palestinian economic affairs.)
...Juan Gabarro, who knows Mr. Levinson well, said his friend can be “a bit mercurial,” and recalled the “settling effect” of Ms. Guiahi’s influence.
...They were married on Dec. 18 at the Harvard Club of New York in a ceremony that was officiated by the Rev. Gilbert Martinez, a Roman Catholic priest, and that incorporated elements from their Persian, Catholic and Jewish heritages. The couple sat on chairs atop a sofreh, a ceremonial spread that was covered with Persian wedding symbols including a mirror, candelabra, eggs, nuts, pomegranates, flat bread and spices...
Debra Grace Fiterman and Alexander Ron Arbit were married Saturday evening in Minnetonka, Minn. Rabbi Harold J. Kravitz performed the ceremony at the Adath Jeshurun Congregation...
The couple met on their first date, St. Patrick’s Day 2009, though Mr. Arbit had the impression that they had met online about a week earlier.
Ms. Fiterman said that for the previous two years she had been looking for “the man of my dreams” on JDate without success. “I didn’t know what to do and I went to my friend Kara Frank.”
Ms. Frank and her husband had met on the Web site and Ms. Fiterman said she told her: “Well, you had luck. You write these guys on behalf of me.”
Ms. Frank agreed. “She clearly wasn’t cutting it on her own,” Ms. Frank said, adding that she was the one who found Mr. Arbit. “He looked cute. They both have very quirky personalities. He has a fun profile. I sent him a message.”
Her Cyrano de Bergerac gambit almost came undone when Mr. Arbit mentioned a local weatherman that he had discussed with Ms. Frank. “It’s not the channel I watch and I didn’t know what he was talking about,” Ms. Fiterman said...
Yael Tuvia and Daniel Zachary Epstein are to be married Sunday in Brooklyn. Rabbi Dale Polakoff is to officiate at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
...The bride, 25, will take her husband’s name.
Rabbi James Ponet, who last Saturday co-officiated at the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky...As Yale’s chief rabbi since 1981, Rabbi Ponet has led a very public journey, from strict observance — which counseled against
intermarriages — to a more open liberalism that can permit them.
...He said he was indifferent about Judaism before college. When he graduated with the class of 1964 from the Loomis School (now called Loomis Chaffee) in Windsor,
Conn., the future rabbi was listed in his yearbook as James Edward Podnetsky (Ponet).
“I can’t give you a sound bite” on the name change, Rabbi Ponet said Tuesday, speaking about what must have been a freighted decision before beginning his freshman year at Yale (class of ’68).
“The first time I glimpsed observant Judaism was at Rabbi Israel’s” house, Rabbi Ponet said, referring to Richard Israel, Yale rabbi of his student years. “And I was enchanted by it.”
By the time Rabbi Ponet was a junior, he was “deeply obsessed” with religion. Before graduating, he wrote to Hebrew Union College, the Reform Jewish seminary, and said: “I do not wish to be a pulpit rabbi. I grew up in your movement and I am ignorant. I appeal to you to let me come study my religion.”
After his ordination in 1973, Rabbi Ponet studied in Israel for eight years. When he returned to be the Yale rabbi, in 1981, he prayed daily. He kept the Jewish Sabbath, not working or driving or otherwise using electricity on Saturday. He always wore a kipa — that is Hebrew; the Yiddish word is “yarmulke” — the traditional Jewish head covering. On Rosh Hashana, he was known to storm undergraduate dining halls, hop on a table, and blow the shofar, or ram’s horn, loudly to herald the arrival of the Jewish New Year.
It was the kind of assertive, public Judaism that could take even religious students by surprise. Then, about five years ago, Rabbi Ponet’s public persona began to change. The yarmulke disappeared; he could be heard joking about eating shellfish again, as young Podnetsky had in his youth. Did he get less observant? “In the public eye,” he said. “I wouldn’t say that in the private eye. I still consider Shabbat” — the Sabbath — “the pivot of my life.”
Those who know Rabbi Ponet say that he is both unmistakably Jewish and deeply interested in other traditions.
Rabbi James Ponet, head of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, was joined by Rev. William Shillady, a Methodist minister. Clinton and the groom, Marc Mezvinsky, reportedly were married under a chuppah, in a ceremony that featured friends and family reciting the seven traditional blessings and a ketubah, the traditional Jewish wedding contract. The event took place Saturday night before the end of the Jewish sabbath.
Mezvinsky, who is Jewish, wore a yarmulke and prayer shawl.
Ponet, a Reform rabbi, has been the Jewish chaplain at Yale since 1981
Bill Clinton is not giving away his daughter Chelsea’s hand in marriage for another three weeks. But he is going to get a little practice at the altar on Saturday, when he officiates at the wedding of Representative Anthony D. Weiner and Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The ceremony will be at Oheka Castle in Huntington, N.Y., in the early evening.
Matt McKenna, a Clinton spokesman, told The Associated Press that Mr. Clinton would conduct the ceremony and was authorized to do so, but did not elaborate. Aides to Mr. Weiner, who represents Queens and Brooklyn, declined to comment.
Mr. Weiner, 45, has been a longtime ally of Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Weiner, who is Jewish, has also been considered one of the most eligible bachelors on Capitol Hill. Ms. Abedin, 34, who grew up in Saudi Arabia and is Muslim, was once featured in a Vogue fashion spread.
Kate Spear-Brodsky and Louai Abu-Osba
Kate Spear-Brodsky, a daughter of Duston Spear of Bedford, N.Y., and Eugene V. Brodsky of New York, was married Saturday to Louai Yousef Abu-Osba, a son of Nadia Salem Saqer of New York and Dr. Yousef Khalil Abu-Osba of Amman, Jordan. The Rev. Donna Schaper, a minister of the United Church of Christ, officiated at the home of the bride’s mother and stepfather, Jon-Marc Seimon, in Bedford.
...Ms. Spear-Brodsky and Mr. Abu-Osba met in October 2002 when she visited a fellow student’s apartment to watch movies. Mr. Abu-Osba often came to the apartment to play video games with a friend who also lived there, and to cook spicy meals...As Halloween neared, she asked him what costume he was going to wear at the campus party. He revealed plans to go as a software pirate and hand out pirated software. But Ms. Spear-Brodsky said she mistook his answer to mean he “was going to be like Jack Sparrow” and asked if he was going to wear an eye patch.
He was initially taken aback by the question, but then quickly readjusted his costume design — especially after she told him “eye patches are sexy.” Put in that context, he recalled, “I made sure I was wearing an eye patch.”
...The couple chose an olive branch as their theme for the Jewish-Muslim union, and the ceremony under a wedding canopy combined readings in Arabic and English, and a traditional Palestinian wedding dance.
Carmiel suffering from Arab neighbors' celebratory gunfire
Custom of shooting guns into the air celebrations in Arab villages has been around for years, but the residents of Carmiel are finally fed up. City resident says, 'Police say not to leave the house if I'm scared. Is that a solution?' Mayor petitions minister of internal security on issue
The celebratory gunfire shot off in Arab towns in the Galilee is not making for particularly happy neighbors. The shooting has reportedly increased during recent nights because of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
This has provoked Carmiel Mayor Adi Eldar to petition Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch on the issue, demanding that he "exercise all the force of the police to stop the unending gunfire in the neighboring villages."
Nearly every night throughout the summer gun shots can be heard during one of the weddings in the Arab villages nearby Carmiel. The phenomenon increases during the Eid al-Fitr holiday and during major sporting events. In many cases, the explosions heard are from fireworks, but often comes from hunting rifles, revolvers, and even automatic weapons.
Our house faces the villages. The situation here is just getting worse," said Margalit Wolovitch, a resident of the western section of Carmiel. "The gunfire is unbearable, both in terms of the safety risk and in terms of the fact that large weapons caches exist in these villages, and no one is doing a thing."
According to Wolovitch, "There are entire nights that you can't even shut your eyes here. When there is a wedding, they shoot; when there is a holiday, they shoot; when there are elections, they shoot. Multiple shots in the air at once. On election day last month, they shot throughout the day.
...I KEPT ON DRIVING ON A DUSTY ROAD UNTIL I FOUND WHAT SEEMED TO BE A COUNTY FAIR, WITH LOTS OF CHEVY AND FORD CARS AND PICK-UPS SURROUNDING A BIG TENT NEXT TO AN OLD FARM HOUSE. IT WAS OBVIOUS MOST OF THE TOWN'S POPULATION WAS HERE. HUNDREDS OF FOLKS WERE DRINKING, EATING AND DANCING INSIDE THE BIG TENT HAVING A GREAT TIME. I HAD NEVER SEEN SO MANY NON-MUSLIMS AT A MUSLIM WEDDING BEFORE.
THIS WAS THE BIG FAT AMERICAN WEDDING IN REVERSE. I WAS OUTNUMBERED, AND OUT OF MY HOME SECURITY COMFORT ZONE...THE WEDDING CEREMONY WAS SHORT AND SWEET, DEVOID OF ANY EXCESSIVE RELIGIOUS OVER TONE. WE ALL SAT INSIDE THE TENT CELEBRATING THE HAPPY OCCASION; NEXT TO A TABLE WHERE A FEW ARAB GUESTS WERE SEATED, AN OLD COUPLE SEEMED TO BE UNCONCERNED THAT AN ARAB GUEST MAY STAND AND START SHOOTING IN THE AIR, AS ARABS CUSTOMARY DO IN THEIR WEDDINGS.
AS THE NEWLYWED COUPLE WAS CUTTING THE CAKE, I WONDERED FOR A BRIEF MOMENT; WHY WOULD A YOUNG AMERICAN WOMAN RISK MARRYING AN ARAB AMERICAN NOWADAYS? HASN'T SHE BEEN ALARMED ENOUGH?
...The couple met in 2005 through a mutual friend while living in New York. They ran into each other often because they traveled in the same circles and attended the same Jewish services on the Upper West Side. Mr. Glasner even made a few vague attempts at asking Ms. Yudkoff out, but she was always busy. In 2008, while they were planning a birthday party for their friend, Mr. Glasner was determined to make his intentions clear.
“He overtly asked can we go have a drink,” said Ms. Yudkoff, who agreed to meet him.
Then he realized that the date coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day, and he was planning to spend time at the B’nai Jeshurun synagogue. “I usually go because I have family members who died in the Holocaust,” he said. “I go to read their names.”
He thought that it might put Ms. Yudkoff in an awkward position if he asked her to accompany him.
“Say no, she may come off as insensitive,” he said, “or, say yes, and it’s an unconventional first date.”
After meeting for a drink, they both went to the reading of names at around 11 p.m.
“When he asked me, I was impressed that he wanted me to do something so meaningful,” she said, “and he didn’t mind sharing that experience with me.”
While Mr. Glasner walked Ms. Yudkoff home, they spoke about the evening, about being close to their families and their similar ideas about raising children.
In June 2009, he decided to propose during their first camping trip, at Susquehanna State Park in Maryland. He excused himself and went to get something from the trunk of his car. He returned to the campfire wearing a suit, and carrying a rose and a ring.
After she said yes, they ate s’mores.
...Mr. Busch, 46, and Mr. Davis, 58, live with their 7-year-old son, Elijah Davis Busch, and Mr. Busch’s mother, Iris Busch, in a contemporary home in Wilton, Conn.At their dinner table on any given night you might also meet Monica Pearl, Mr. Busch’s longtime best friend, and her 8-year-old daughter, Vita Aaron Pearl. Mr. Busch is Vita’s donor dad or, as Vita’s friends sometimes say, “doughnut dad.”
...In August 2004, Mr. Busch and Mr. Davis were among a group of same-sex couples who sued Connecticut for the right to marry, a case the group won in October 2008. “Marriage is so much more than a collection of rights and privileges," Mr. Busch said. “Nobody says, ‘Oh, I want to civil union you.’ ”He added: “Stephen loves me in the marrying kind of way. He loves me when I’m unlovable.”
On Nov. 29, 200 people attended their wedding at Temple Israel in Westport, Conn., where Rabbi Leah Cohen
performed the ceremony.As the couple, dressed identically, walked the aisle, Eli played a minuet on the cello, fearlessly blazing his way through squeaky notes.
The synagogue was just a few miles from where Mr. Busch spent his childhood. “Growing up, I thought I’d have to move 10,000 miles away,” Mr. Busch said. “That’s what it meant to be gay then.”
Now the couple are not only living in his hometown, but Mr. Busch’s mother, 72, shares the house with them. When they walk in the door, she asks, “Have you eaten?”
This is the second wedding events place we've encountered where the band is set off behind a glass partition. Makes for a lot less noise for those trying to enjoy each other's company. The first was the extaension to the Mitzpeh Yericho hall and now Neveh Ilan, at Adiel Libi's wedding to Ta'ir:
Inside the dancing was as normal, loud, and a bit wild:
this is just south of Jericho stretching away to Jordan -
and a song from the wedding ceremony:
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