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Sydney · Weddings

Weddings, 1988

4 stories in Sydney's papers

A ‘bride’ and ‘groom’ but not a wedding

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 June 1988 · page 5

BAT YAM - The wedding hall was a sea of glittering lights, the guests congratulated the proud parents, lit;tle girls with ribbons in their hair ran…

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Clowns at a wedding COMMENT

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 14 October 1988 · page 19

THERE HAVE BEEN strange goings-on recently at marriages solemnized by our otherwise punctilious rabbinate here in Israel…

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No wedding bells

Tribune · Wednesday 23 November 1988 · page 9

Australia's 1987 marriage rate -- 7 per 1,000 population -- was the lowest since the Great Depression. If first…

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Demise of dirty dancing at Jewish weddings PARTISAN

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 25 November 1988 · page 9

THE JEWISH wedding is waiting for its Jack Hibberd, a playwright who would do for this rite of passage what Dimboola did for the Australian country…

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