Wedding! (tradition, America, sex, Jewish, Orthodox)

[TashaN]

Hi everybody,

Today, i was watching one of the American series called "House", and i watched there a Jewish wedding where all the men were in a place separated from the women. All were dancing in their own place then they raised both, the man and the woman up on wooden chairs then they booth sort of got connected using something to grap on when they were raised.

I was just wondering about that tradition. Do all Jews do that or just the religious one?


Thank you.

[jewscout]

Originally Posted by Abu Khalid

Hi everybody,

Today, i was watching one of the American series called "House", and i watched there a Jewish wedding where all the men were in a place separated from the women. All were dancing in their own place then they raised both, the man and the woman up on wooden chairs then they booth sort of got connected using something to grap on when they were raised.

I was just wondering about that tradition. Do all Jews do that or just the religious one?


Thank you.

in most traditional orthodox circles the dancing is seperate as it is not considered to be "tzniut" or modest to dance w/ members of the opposite sex (really it's an issue of the men seeing the women dancing not the other way around)

but this depends on the couple and how observant they are

most the weddings i've gone to have had seperate dancing and it was just as fun as any other wedding where it's mixed dancing, actually IMPO more so.

hope that helps

[Alex_G]

Go House!

[Somkid]

I missed that episode. I like House but I really like the show because I worked in that hospital well, what you see from the outside, the inside is a Hollywood set.