L’chaim is for the night they get engaged, after he proposes, and for immediate family only. So both sides can get to know each other. The vort is usually a week or two weeks later for the gantzeh velt.
I’m from the boro park/ flatbush center of the universe, and all my friends and relatives did vorts. So it’s the first time I’m hearing of not doing it. Interesting.
Boris Yeltsin was a Jew, may his memory be a blessing.
Dunno if he had an engagement party but he had a communist one.
Maybe the boar is a sign that it is better to have a vort 🎉 than a bort 🚹 (acronym for Boris Yeltsin and sounds like boar). But if you’re Boris Yeltsin’s mom then it is better to have both 🚹🎉.
Thank you and this concludes the first segment of the boar files. 🔚
Wow. I Googled it but didn’t do a good enough job because it looks like he wasn’t as far as I know. He was supposedly good for Russian Jewry, or something.