{"id":60962,"date":"2025-07-13T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60962\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:00:08","slug":"kfar-chabad-in-an-uproar-as-rabbi-orders-wedding-halls-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60962\/","title":{"rendered":"Kfar Chabad in an uproar as rabbi orders wedding halls closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-cc251a2f=\"\" data-v-7c55b5cc-s=\"\">An uproar broke out Friday in Kfar Chabad after the town&#8217;s rabbi, Rabbi Meir Ashkenazi, ordered the closure of local wedding halls until further notice.<\/p>\n<p data-v-cc251a2f=\"\" data-v-7c55b5cc-s=\"\">The decision was made following &#8220;events bordering on immodesty&#8221; that, according to him, took place at the Beit Zlata hall.<\/p>\n<p data-v-cc251a2f=\"\" data-v-7c55b5cc-s=\"\">In a sharp letter distributed to residents, Rabbi Ashkenazi wrote: &#8220;Following events bordering on immodesty on the part of the groom and bride that occurred this week at the hall, and after unsuccessful attempts to resolve the issue, I hereby announce the closure of Beit Zlata hall for weddings until further notice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-cc251a2f=\"\" data-v-7c55b5cc-s=\"\">Following Rabbi Ashkenazi&#8217;s letter, the management of Beit Rivka announced the closure of two halls in Kfar Chabad B &#8211; Beit Zlata and the main hall. Only the event tent in Kfar Chabad will continue to operate as usual.<\/p>\n<p data-v-cc251a2f=\"\" data-v-7c55b5cc-s=\"\">The decision has sparked varied reactions among residents.  Some note that during the three weeks between the 17th of the Jewish month of Tammuz and Tisha B&#8217;av, weddings are not typically held, and expressed hope that a solution will be found in the meantime to allow the wedding halls to reopen after Tisha B&#8217;av.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An uproar broke out Friday in Kfar Chabad after the town&#8217;s rabbi, Rabbi Meir Ashkenazi, ordered the closure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,44038,50,13621],"class_list":{"0":"post-60962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-kfar-chabad","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-weddings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114843223813213549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}