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Old Love Made New Again
A traditional ceremony, denied for many years, finally came to be.
How would you celebrate your 50th wedding anniversary? Get married? That’s what this love stories about. When Ludmila Golfeld and Boris Shpolberg met in Odessa Ukraine, Russia, it was under communist rule and in 1962, when they decided to marry; no one was allowed to marry according to any religious custom. Doing so would doom them to the gulag and most likely, certain death. Couples only option, if they wanted to marry, was a civil ceremony; so that’s what Ludmila and Boris did. In 1996 the Shpolberg’s came to live in the United States and began to assimilate into our culture. They became members of Rabbi Kelman’s Congregation Ahabat Sholom in Lynn. On a bright, sunny day, November 27, 2012, Rabbi Kelman joined …
