The Brooklyn Bride

WEDDINGS

Photo: Yaakov Rosenthal

Soble - Chakoff

Esther Soble and Avram Tov Chakoff were married on Feb. 17 at Ohelei Menachem on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights. The bride’s mother is Menucha Lapine of Worcester, Mass., and the groom’s parents are Jane and Elliot Chakoff of Herndon, Va.

The couple now resides in DUMBO where they organize and host innovative Jewish programming in the hopes of bringing the local Jewish community together. They recently sponsored a family picnic in the Brooklyn Bridge park on the water’s end of Washington Street for the holiday of Lag B’Omer and have arranged Jewish singles networking events. They also have Shabbat guests for meals each week and offer classes in kabala and other Jewish themes.

How did you meet?
The bride says: “We met through Simcha Weinstein, the assistant rabbi at Congregation B’nai Avraham in Brooklyn Heights. I had been living in New York for three years, teaching in Crown Heights and Brooklyn Heights. Avram was teaching in Montreal, and Simcha (who had studied with him in Israel) told him to come to New York to meet me. So he traveled many times back and forth. He was sure before I was!
“But after my brother got engaged, I told Avram that when he came back next weekend, he could do his thing. We were married seven weeks later.”

Wedding day mix-up
The bride says: “Somehow Avram didn’t realize he had to be at the hall early to take pictures. He was running around like crazy and had stopped to check in, when the photographer came up to him and said if he was the groom, he needed to be ready for pictures by 5 pm.

“Avram realized that was five minutes away! He wasn’t even dressed yet.

“Luckily, it takes him less time to get ready than me!”

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