Valentine's Day
Today is Valentine’s Day which is not a Jewish holiday but has become a universal day representing love and affection, feelings that often lead to marriage. Below are archived photos of weddings and wedding anniversaries which we think depict the essence of the holiday.
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Barry & Laurie Goldman on their wedding day
Nettie (Balbin) & Herbert Weiss’s wedding, Sept 1, 1933 (from the Glassman Collection).
Ruth Lubert and Larry Sachs wedding party, 1955.
On the left are Ruth’s grandparents from Canada (David and Hulda Lubert), On the extreme right are Ruth’s maternal grandparents from Paterson (Joseph and Nettie Katz). Also pictured are Ruth’s mother and father (Max and Betty Lubert) and on the right is Ruth’s sister (age 15) Barbara Lubert Cohen.
Family portrait of the Isaac and Hendel Cohen’s 50th wedding anniversary, 1930. See photo captions for IDs, (from the Sid Cohen Collection).
Unidentified wedding party portrait from the Ben Freedman Collection. Please help us identify these folks and the date.
Daniel and Fannie Esterman and their eight children at the wedding of their daughter Minda. L-r are: Dororthy, Sam, Rose, Pearl, Daniel, Minda, Minda’s groom Jack Racker, Fannie, Lewis, Libbie and Bessie.