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- noun Alternative spelling of
chuppah .
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Twelve years ago, on June 23, 1996, my husband (sic) and I got married under a Jewish wedding canopy, known as a huppah, surrounded by 120 friends and family in the hills above Berkeley, California. ...
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Twelve years ago, on June 23, 1996, my husband (sic) and I got married under a Jewish wedding canopy, known as a huppah, surrounded by 120 friends and family in the hills above Berkeley, California.
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Twelve years ago, on June 23, 1996, my husband (sic) and I got married under a Jewish wedding canopy, known as a huppah, surrounded by 120 friends and family in the hills above Berkeley, California. ...
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Interfaith couples sometimes personalize this tradition by fashioning the huppah from a special tablecloth or wedding veil from the family of the partner who is not Jewish.
Edmund C. Case: Interfaith Weddings: What Chelsea Clinton's Ceremony Might Look Like Edmund C. Case 2010
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The huppah was built of a shawl tied to four sticks.
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The huppah, or wedding canopy, on poles held up by friends or decorated with flowers, symbolizes the new home the couple will create.
Edmund C. Case: Interfaith Weddings: What Chelsea Clinton's Ceremony Might Look Like Edmund C. Case 2010
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Being effectively blinded, I was now led to the huppah (the wedding canopy) by Doba and her husband.
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The huppah, or wedding canopy, on poles held up by friends or decorated with flowers, symbolizes the new home the couple will create.
Edmund C. Case: Interfaith Weddings: What Chelsea Clinton's Ceremony Might Look Like 2010
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Interfaith couples sometimes personalize this tradition by fashioning the huppah from a special tablecloth or wedding veil from the family of the partner who is not Jewish.
Edmund C. Case: Interfaith Weddings: What Chelsea Clinton's Ceremony Might Look Like 2010
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A circus that opened this spring with a theme of cultures of Russia includes an act in which two chimpanzees dressed as Orthodox Jews stand under a huppah, the Jewish wedding canopy.
Karina Ioffee: Russian Jews Face Continual Challenges As Country Seeks To Be A Global Player 2009
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