The wedding of Shmuli Bendet and Aidy Katzman may not have been the first wedding to take place at the Joan and Alan Bernikow Jewish Community Center in Staten Island, N.Y., but it was certainly the first Chasidic one.

According to the Staten Island Advance, the March 16 nuptials between Bendet and the daughter of Rabbi Moshe and Chana Katzman, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Staten Island, was the first Chasidic wedding to ever take place in the Manor Road section of the island. Some 500 guests turned out for the occasion. …