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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/61267/full/61267/royal-wedding-watch-2011-jewish-edition/ <br /><br /> <b>Royal Wedding Watch 2011 - Jewish Edition</b> <br /> Wednesday, March 30, 2011 | by rachel leibold <br /><br /><p> <div class="default" style="width: 300px;"><img alt="ketubah_300" height="230" src="http://www.jweekly.com/images/uploads/blog_art/0311/ketubah_300.jpg" title="ketubah_300" width="300" /> <div class="caption">The ketubah created for Prince William and Kate Middleton is displayed.<br /></div> </div> </p> <p>The world is atwitter over the upcoming royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton (who, j. <a href="/blog/full/59905/kate-middleton-jewish-or-not/" target="_blank">reported back in November</a>, is not Jewish). The wedding is scheduled for April 29 - three days after the end of Passover, which is good news for Jews who, like me, enjoy preparing theme meals for major events such as this. It wouldn't be a royal wedding without a pint of beer, scones and, of course, a proper cake!</p> <p>Earlier this month, reports surfaced that the heir to the British throne would be breaking a glass at the end of the ceremony, a traditional Jewish custom. The Jewish Chronicle had <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/46723/william-and-kate-will-smash-glass-wedding" target="_blank">written an article</a> stating that the royal couple would be incorporating Jewish, Muslim and Hindu customs into their traditional Anglican wedding at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the multicultural nature of Britain.</p> <p>While this seems like a rather lovely touch, it turned out to be a Purim joke. (I guess the tipoff was the Buckingham Palace spokeswoman "Esther Calthorpe-Watts"...subtle.) Too bad!</p> <p>In real news, however, British-born Israeli artist Michael Horton <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/46400/william-and-kate-have-a-ketubah-wedding" target="_blank">created a ketubah for the couple</a> that includes both Hebrew and English text. The Jewish Chronicle reports that Horton "de-koshered" the text so it could be suitable for a couple married in a church, and removed the parts about the obligations of the husband to the wife so that the ketubah could be a purely commemorative document. The JC has lots of nice details about the look of the ketubah, which sounds lovely.<br /><br />The artist then presented it to Matthew Gould, Britain's ambassador to Israel, who assured him it would have an expedient passage to the royal couple.<br /><br />Also, the father of the groom, Prince Charles, this month <a href="http://www.thejc.com/community/community-life/46744/prince-charles-backing-world-jewish-relief" target="_blank">signed on to become a patron</a> of World Jewish Relief's poverty relief program for families in Ukraine.</p>

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