Article: Mixed dancing is taboo at Wedding of Rabbi N.D Herman- Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1929

An Article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle dated June 29, 1929 writes about the Marriage of Rabbi Nochum Dovid Herman son of Rav Yaakov Yosef Herman who the book All for the boss was written about. The article points out a "strange thing"  there was no mixed dancing while the jazz music was played.  Men and Maids dine apart at the wedding. Rav Baruch Ber Lebowitz who was in the US was mesader kiddushin at the wedding.

 Premier Palace, 505 Suiter ave. when Norman Davis Herman, a 20-year-old rabbi of Manhattan, married 18-year-old Harriet Horowitz of Brooklyn. Grand rabbi Baruch Behr Leibo-witz of the Kamenetz Yeshivah in Poland offlciated at the ceremony, while 20 other Jewish ministers, some "( them visiting America from Poland and Lithuania, attended. mixed Dancing Barred. Perhaps one of the straigest
features of the wedding was that while there music, and jazz music, too, young men and women were not permitted to dance together. Members of the same sex were allowed to trip the light fantastic, but
apparently from the small number who did the usual custom is preferable. At' the supper table the feminine and masculine contingents were also widely separated. No woman dared enter the hall with bare arm; and so consequently all present wore long-sleeved dresses, though the length of those dresses was in the moder mode. The heads of the men were covered, a great many by the small skullcap customary among Orthodox Jews. Honeymoon Is Taboo. Honeymoons in the strict Jewish law are taboo, and so the newly-weds will immediately take up quarters with the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Horowitz, of 975 Blake ave. Before the guests entered the dining room last night a sign was placed on the stairway -commanding all to pray before partaking of food. It read: "Everything you eat belongs to God after the blessing to you." The marriage ceremony, per-ormed In Yiddish, was no different rom the usual and the bride and groom wore the conventional dress. The young groom who lives with his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Herman at 13 E Broadway returned from Palestine on March 7 where after 4 years study he received 11 Rabbinical degrees. His maternal Grandparents Mr. and Mrs. S.L. Andron who founded the Yeshiva of Palestine and who make their home there and his fathers parents Mr. and Mrs. Issac Herman attended the wedding.