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Friday, February 13, 1987 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

y mother had always
dreamed that her only
daughter would marry
under the stars in Israel.
What Jewish mother would
wish otherwise? Of course,
as long as the groom was
Jewish and came from a
good family but . . . "Just
what and where is Yemen?"
she asked on a long dis-
tance call from Montreal.
My aliyah to Israel took
place seven years ago, years
that have sped by and
transformed this once-upon-
a-time Jewish Canadian
Princess into an Israeli.
When the time was ripe, I
met my husband, a Yemen-
ite Israeli. In keeping with
his family's heritage, we
had a traditional Yemenite
wedding. My childhood vi-
sions of a frilly white dress
and waltzing with my
father while my mother
wept were suddenly trans-
posed into the ancient
customs of another culture.
The "Henna," the original
Yemenite wedding ceremony,
is a ritual that has been

carried out for hundreds of
years, and still is today in
some Yemenite-Israeli
families. It may be per-
formed in its entirety under
the "chuppah," or on the
evening prior to the tradi-
tional Jewish wedding as
we know it.
My husband's parents
were certain that I would
not want to go through
with the ceremony, but hav-
ing majored in theater arts
in college, I had other
ideas. I envisioned a fanfare
of spectacle — my first ma-
jor performance to what
was certain to be a captive
audience. The "Henna," the
honoring of the bride and
groom, symbolizes giving
the bride to the groom's
family and vice versa. In
Yemen in days of yore, the
ceremony would begin one
week before the chuppah.
We decided to have our
"Henna" for only one
evening, two days before
our actual marriage
ceremony.
Two hundred and fifty
guests, cold meats, salads,
pita bread, strings of
bright lights, music — all in

