By COLlive reporter
Photos by Levi Percia
Family and friends packed the courtyard of 770 Eastern Parkway on Thursday night to celebrate the wedding of young chassidic couple Yehuda Zaltzman and Mushka Rubashkin.
Absent was the father of the kallah, R’ Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, the former kosher meat executive and founder of the Jewish community in Postville, Iowa, who is imprisoned on charges of bank fraud.
As reported, Rubashkin was denied release for the simcha. In an email to COLlive the night before the wedding, the father of 10 asked the Chabad community and supporters of his plight to attend and fill “the place that is left empty.”
With the request of the family, COLlive in cooperation with SimchaLive.com provided a live broadcast of the chuppah where Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, member of the Crown Heights Bais Din, was mesader kiddushin.
Walking the chosson was his father Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchak Zaltzman, Director of the Jewish Russian Community Center of Toronto in Canada and the kallah’s grandfather R’ Avrohom Aaron Rubashkin of Boro Park, NY.
Walking the kallah was her mother Mrs. Leah Rubashkin, today of Monsey, NY, and the chosson’s mother Mrs. Chiena Zaltzman, a Shlucha in Toronto.
Honored with reciting the brachos under the chuppah were members of the committee campaigning for Rubashkin’s release: Rabbi Sholom Ber Hecht, Rabbi Pinchos Lipshutz and Rabbi Lipa Brennan.
Also honored was Rabbi Leibel Groner, Mazkir of the Rebbe, as well as Rabbi Avremel Blesofsky, Director of Lubavitch of Iowa City.
Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin joined the occasion via phone. Many were deeply moved when he offered his blessings heard over speaker-phone through the sound system.
The wedding meal was held at the Razag hall and the joyous dancing was led by musician Choni Milecki and singer Eli Marcus.
Wow I cannot believe it I remember when she was a little girl!!!!!!!!😂
How kind, thoughtful and brave of the Rubashkin family to share their happiness and hope with all. May G-d’s bountiful uncountable blessings infuse the young couple’s lives and their families’ future.
ONLY SIMCHAS!!!!!!!
Hi sweetie, it is Miriam Nechama, from Ames, Iowa. You looked BEAUTIFUL and I am soooo happy your tatte was able to be on the phone with you under the chuppah. Maybe I will see you in Toronto!!! Esther is studying there now! BH! LOVE YOU!!!!!
mazel tov mushka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omg!!!!!!
Mmushka!!!!!!!!!! Mazal tov, wish I could be there !!!
You should have all of the brachos in the world!
A lot of naches
Asher Elper
mazal tov! love teen camper
mazal tov mushka!!!!!
LUV U!!!!
MAZAL TOV!!!
The pcitur ewhen the girl is goling the phone is so sad.. wantedto cry1 so brave!! 🙂
Mazel tov mushka, you look gorgeous! i wish i can still see the video! may you have all the brochos!
May Hashem create a miracle that Sholom should be freed and should not need “miracles” to attend his other 6 childrens weddings!!!!
especially Mrs Rubashkin
May Hashem bentch her and all her children to be reunited with their father, sheyichye, away from any type of confinement
Moshaich NOW
mazal tov yehuda
your mekubol from when you were a shliach in YG, Melbourne
Hadassa Leiter – Sholom Mordechai’s niece
Warmest wishes from the Brahinskys in Eretz Yisrael to all the Rubashkins and Balkanys. 🙂 Nechama Sarah and Moshe.
From mishpocha overseas
Feter Hillell and Feter Berel!!!
How many people attended?
Feter Berel (Zaltzman)!
Mazal Tov! Only wish the Kallah’s father was there!
MAZAL TOV MUSHKAH I WISH I WAS THERE
mazel tov
U look so so beautiful kah! The A-R should give u an extra measure of Koichos!
mazel tov. Mushka you are so pretty
Can we get the audio of SMR words at Chupah?
mazel tov, holy ones!!
Who is that Cute Tzadaikis saying Tehillim in the first picture ? we need more of that !
mushka stunning gown
mazal tov!!!
Feel like a larger Lubavitch family
Beautiful!!! i enjoyed looking at the pictures. May both families only have much nachas and simchos. There were some pictures that i saw last night that are not posted now. Did you take some out and add new ones? Can u pls update with ALL the pictures? Thank you!!
thank you!
Seeing the photo of the phone under the chupah brought tears to my eyes as well. The injustice of this case cries out so loud. It is a disgrace to the US that Sholom Rubashkin is still in jail.
May G-d punish everyone who put him there .
Of the Kallah with the phone in her hand right after the Chuppah brought tears to my eyes. Mazel Tov, may this be a wonderful new beginning.
I do every day,when praying for his dad.
Moshiach Now!
The second dance was 4 hrs!!! The energy was amazing and the music amazing. It proves you can have only chassidishe nigunim and the places rocks. Shkoiach Chony and Eli!
We love you Menashe Segman
only brochos
Like a Boss!!
A hearty mazal tov to the Rubashkin family,and may we hear good news in the very near future.
l.j
MaZal tov lipsh zaltzman and rubashkin
So thats the zaltzmaner rebbe
MAZELLLL TOV!!!
Pinny Lipschutz!!! He got a bracha!!! Write that!!!
Such beautiful pics! We’re so sorry we had to miss it! All your tefillos should be fulfilled immediatly!!!
Much love,
The Meretsky’s
Mazel Tov MAZEL TOV! Is there still a way we can watch the wedding?? Please let us know!
MAZEL TOV MUSHKA! May Hashem give you much Bracha V’Hatzlacha! May u see REVEALED GOOD! May RIGHT AWAY we see Moshiach Tzidkainue come AND Together we will be as 1one!:)
Love,
Rochel Katz
it shows the jewish community did not forget him! and we will not stay silent until there is justice!
i was actually there. a huge mazal tov!!!!!!!
No, unfortunately the US of A has a corrupt justice system that does not allow a religious law-abiding Jew to attend his own daughters wedding.
It is unfortunate, sad, heartbreaking, disgusting, and shocking.
MAZAL TOV!!!!!!!!
is there a way to watch it now??
Thanks Collive and Simchalive for sponsoring Live stream
wonderful to see fellow Jews involved and active in this simcha. Who is this protest against and how does it effect or sway the people whom you are protesting against?
did her father get to come
MAZEL TOV MUSHKA!!!
is there a way to see it now, if i missed it live?????
I went to the chuppa to support the family. It felt to me similar to the feeling when I went to the rallies for Gush Katif – like it’s an inyan of Hashem’s business
Such a good protest. Who is the protest against and how does it effect the people you are protesting?
I MISSED IT AND REALLY WANNA WATCH IT IS THERE ANYWAY I CAN NOW?
Wishing you all the brochos in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wish I could be with you!!!!!!!!! Love, Sheina Brocha
can the whole wedding be broadcasted? we want to take part in the simcha even if it’s not in person
so nice mamsh
may every innocent jew in the world be released from jail!!!!
got chills by the first cry of mazel tov. right now its after chupa….hard to see…
Dear Mushka and the entire Rubashkin family,
I wish I could be there and I am so happy for you.
Many Brochos!