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Article: Under the Eldridge Street Chuppa
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- June 27, 1997
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06-27-1997
Under the Eldridge Street Chuppa
Renee Newman had been warned that the Eldridge Street Synagogue was not a place where one would want to wear white. But when she accepted Jeff Bock's wedding proposal, she knew no other location would do.
"I couldn't imagine being married anywhere else," said Ms. Newman, standing with her family just minutes before the late April wedding ceremony began.
At the time of her wedding, Ms. Newman was program associate at the Eldridge Street Project, devoted to preserving the history of the synagogue, built by Eastern European Jews in 1887. As resident historian, Ms. Newman took the lead in preparing the application that made the case for the ...