Washington Jewish Week, November 8th, 2007
On Nov. 9, 1938, Jewish homes, shops and synagogues were ransacked across Germany and parts of Austria. Jews were beaten to death, and thousands were shipped to concentration camps. Synagogues were burned. Today we remember this pogrom as Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass; the sounds of Jewish windows breaking an eerie premonition of the larger disaster to follow. But in Judaism the sound of breaking glass is more commonly associated with the end of the Jewish wedding ceremony.
Tradition has it that the breaking of glass was originally included in the wedding ceremony to recall the sha...
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