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Soviets To Renew Vows
In Jewish Ceremony
SUSAN GRANT
Staff Writer
ixteen years ago, Irina
and Naum Kvitnaya
were wed in a Kiev
marriage palace and told by
a government official to
have a good life and to be
useful to the communist par-
ty.
On December 16 in the
Temple Beth El sanctuary,
the couple will renew their
vows. Only this time the
ceremony will be held under
the chuppah with a blessing
from a rabbi.
The Kvitnayas are one of
25 Soviet couples who will
stand beneath a chuppah in
Temple Beth El's sanctuary
and repeat their marriage
vows. Later, friends and
family will celebrate the
ceremony at a reception in
the temple's social hall.
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"We wanted to help bring
them into the Jewish com-
munity," explained Rabbi
Daniel Polish, who along
with Rabbi Julian Cook and
Cantor Gail Hirchenfang
will officiate at the
ceremony.
Welcoming the Soviets is
nothing new for Temple
Beth El, Rabbi Polish said.
About 20 Soviet families
have joined the temple in re-
cent months and many
others have been befriended
by temple members through
the Family to Family pro-
gram. As they have become
involved in temple ac-
tivities, many Soviets have
witnessed American chil-
dren and now their own
children celebrate b'nai
mitzvahs.
"But one of the things we
know is they never had a
Jewish wedding, only an of-
ficial civil wedding," Rabbi
Polish said.
So temple officials put
together a mass wedding
ceremony for Jewish Soviet
couples. "The numbers of
new Americans who wanted
to participate exceeded our
expectations," Rabbi Polish
said.
Yakov Ilyasov, who has
been married to his wife,
Izabella, for almost nine
years, said the civil
ceremony they had in the
Soviet Union in its own way
was beautiful.
"But it was not a bless-
ing," Mr. Ilyasov said. "We
were wished good health and
happiness, but we were told
we have to be useful to the
communist party."
"We want to be blessed by
God, not the communist par-
ty," Mrs. Ilyasov said.
Because most new Ameri-
cans had never seen a Jew-
ish wedding ceremony,
Rabbi Cook led a Dec. 2
workshop to explain the
various symbols used in the
nuptials. A second workshop
to prepare the couples for the
ceremony will be held Dec. 9.
Although it will be a mass
wedding ceremony, "we will
try to find a way to make it
an individualized experi-
ence," Rabbi Polish said.
Vows will be said together,
he said. Then each rabbi will
move to a chupah where
couples will repeat the vows
individually and receive the