The Jewish Voice & Herald
WEDDINGS
JANUARY 18, 2013
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Pre-wedding styling blunders don’t derail ceremony or marriage Aim for a professional haircut before the wedding ceremony
By Nina Rooks Cast
Special to The Voice & Herald HOPE VALLEY – The night before my Aug. 24, 1997 wedding, I decided to henna my hair, but didn’t wear the plastic gloves that were recommended, as I had run out of them. I figured that if I just washed my hands quickly, it would be fine. After the henna treatment, my hands were slightly “oompa loompa-like” and my fingernails were completely stained orange. Although a bit of nail polish concealed some of the disaster, it covered neither the orange sheen around my nails’ edges nor my decidedly tinted palms. Then, my mother decided that my hair looked raggedy and I should trim it. My sister offered to bring her hair-clipping scissors to my house and do it for me since she cuts all her kids’ hair. At one point during the trimming, she let slip an “oops.” My mom had a near-heart attack when she saw the two-inch bald gap along the side of my head where my sister had gone over the area one too many times. “No worries,” I said, and got a dark brown Sharpie marker and colored in my scalp. No one seemed the wiser! As I’ve always said, the dif-
Courtesy of Dov Ben-Shimon
Cuban Jews marry in Havana
Cuban Jews marry
HAVANA, Cuba – Dov BenShimon, executive director, strategic partnerships for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) reported that some 21 Cuban Jewish couples were married
Nina Rooks CAST
Jim Cast and Nina Rooks Cast on their wedding day ference between a good haircut and a bad one is just three weeks!
NINA ROOKS CAST, a resident of Hope Valley, teaches science at Mt. Pleasant High School in Providence: nina. rooks.cast@gmail.com.
Popping the question By Saul Ricklin
Special to The Voice & Herald BRISTOL – My father loved to tell how, wanting to borrow some money from my motherto-be, he went on bended knee, saying, “Rose, I have a difficult question to ask of you.” Before he could go any further, she said, “Yes, I will marry you.” My father Isaac Ricklin was born in Slutsk, Russia and my mother Rose Brodozky was born in nearby Starobin, Russia. They met on the East Side of New York City and were married Aug. 20, 1910. They raised a family of three children in Brooklyn, N.Y. My mother was a homemaker and my father was owner of Acme Toy Company, a doll manufacturer. SAUL RICKLIN lives in Bristol: shub@fullchannel. net.
A circa 1815 woodcut of a marriage proposal
in Havana in late December 2012. The JDC-sponsored rabbi flew in for the ceremony. In an email to the Alliance, BenShimon called the ceremony “moving and inspiring.”