Herman’s mother, Dora, didn’t seem too happy at the time. I worried that we wouldn’t get along and she worried that I wasn’t good enough for her son. We both found out, over time, that we could be very good friends. Looking back I think that part of her unhappiness was that her husband, Frank, who had died not too long ago, was not there with her to see Herman get married.
Rabbi Sud, Herman’s Rabbi from Chester, married us. We had a small reception, twenty-eight people, at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia. The hotel had its own music playing every night so we didn’t have to pay for the music. The meal was a hot turkey platter. We didn’t realize when we ordered it that it came with bacon on top of the turkey. Pearl went around collecting all the bacon off the turkey. Jewish tradition was maintained by Pearl’s efforts.
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