Rivka Lazar, daughter of the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar, and Sholom Wolf, son of the Chief Rabbi of Odessa and Southern Ukraine Avraham Wolf, got married yesterday in Jerusalem.
Three thousand guests attended the ceremony, where the couple stood beneath the chuppah (traditional Jewish wedding canopy). The wedding host announced that this was going to be “the chuppah of the piece.”
“The Chassidic world has always transgressed boundaries,” one of the guests of the ceremony who asked not to be identified told TPS-IL. “It is not really so important that Russia and Ukraine are at war. Jews still remain friends and relatives, and that is how it always has been.”
When the marriage was announced last November at the annual Congress of Chabad Ambassadors in New York, the popular joke was that US President Donald Trump had done the ‘shidduch’ (the matchmaking process in Hebrew).