Word: shadchonim
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Once all Jewish marriages were arranged by parents. Actual negotiations, including the all-important dowry provided by the bride's family, were handled by shadchonim-marriage brokers. Today only old-fashioned Orthodox Jews patronize the shadchen. Simplified by the emancipation of Jewish youth, his job consists in bringing together couples in a marrying mood, taking a commission (usually 5%) on the dowry...
...qualifications for a good match Rabbi Wolf, who annually lectures shadchonim on the ethics of their business, declared beauty comes first. "When you go into a grocery store you demand the best, you demand that it be hot and with cream. Well, when you take a girl your sister asks, 'What have you brought home, a nice young lady...
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