Family Returns For Wedding

By COLlive reporter

Hundreds of guests came to the Ukrainian city of Kharkov to take part in an historic Jewish wedding of Rivka Moskovitz, daughter of the city’s Chief Rabbi and Shluchim to Moishy Korf of Crown Heights.

The chosson’s grandfather is the chossid Reb Gedalya Korf who grew up in Kharkov as a child and was from the founders of the organization “Ezras Achim” which throughout Soviet times kept the flames of Yiddishkeit alive.

By divine providence, it was Ezras Achim that was active in sending Rabbi Moshe and Miriam Moskovitz and their family as Shluchim of the Rebbe to Kharkov in 1990.

Members of the local Jewish community were in awe as a large crowd filled up the courtyard of Kharkov’s main shul on Pushkinskaya 12. Fellow Shluchim and family arrived from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Odessa Caracas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

The mayor of Kharkov, Gennadiy (Moshe) Kernes had a brocha under the chupa and in his speech at the meal, he blessed the young couple “to continue in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s way.”

The seuda and dancing took place in the Radmir Expo Hall. Ukrainian dancers danced to Hop Kossack and together with the “Kol Yisrael” band from Eretz Yisrael got everyone on their feet including the mayor and all the locals who all said in one voice that they never had experienced such happiness in their lives.