Author: Rabbi Reuven G. Becker

The Mizinke Dance: Tradition, Folklore or Other?

Exploring One of the Most Puzzling Rituals at a Jewish Wedding “Did you get to see the mizinke tantz?” my wife asked me while we were driving home from a wedding. “Yes,” I said. “My friend Shaindy was standing right next to me. She feels it’s taken from the secular Yiddish theatre and adapted from […]