It's25 or 50 years since they stood together under the chuppah.Families share golden memories of anniversary celebrations
“We put much effort and thought into celebrating my parent’s 25th wedding anniversary,” relates Michal Rosner, CEO of Yotzrim Sevivah, an Israel-based nonprofit encouraging the development of art in the chareidi world. “We called people who knew them from way back and recorded them giving my parents a message.
“The idea was that our parents would have to identify the people from different times in their lives based on their voices alone. One person refused to cooperate, but my brother was able to get him for long enough to record him saying ‘no.’ His ‘no!’ was so sharp, my parents identified him immediately.
“My parents really enjoyed the party, mostly the fact we’d thought about them and put so much into planning it.”
Michal also described an anniversary party on her husband’s side of the family. “The first Shabbos I spent with my in-laws, my mother-in-law, a”h, told me excitedly about what their children had done for their silver wedding anniversary. They bought them a beautiful set of dishes and set a gorgeous Shabbos table. My in-laws were deeply touched.
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