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Singles

So many singles, so few tables

Jews are no different. Whether male or female, young or old, Ashkenazic or Sephardic, rich or poor, left-wing or right-wing, religious or secular, SUV-driving or Prius-driving, loud or quiet, screenwriter or grant writer, somehow, no matter how good you feel in our own skin, and how much you enjoy your own company, none of us wants to be alone.

The fix is in

Not everyone can be a matchmaker. And not every match that\’s offered is one that should be taken up.

Friendship — and pain

I love my friendship with Patrick. Perhaps one day my heart will catch up with my head.

Majority Rules

Let me state for the record: I am a trendsetter.

This just in, according to no less an authority than The New York Times. Based on their most recent census analysis, more American women are living without a husband than with one.

D-A-T-E is just a four-letter word

Because in today\’s modern world, a guy and a girl looking for love can make plans, rush home from work, wash extra carefully in certain areas, put on nice clothes, spend three hours in flirtatious conversation at the local sushi joint, say a warm good night and still come home wondering whether what they just experienced was a date or two people who wanted to be on a date but were instead simply \”hanging out.\”

A kiss on the hand may be so Continental, but diamonds aren’t forever anymore

When I turned 18 years old, my parents gave me a pair of diamond earrings. Later that same night at a comedy club, when a comedian on stage asked me what I got for my birthday, I showed him the diamonds.
\”You must be Jewish, right?\” he said.
I was — still am, as a matter of fact. But I didn\’t know yet about Jews and diamonds. I\’m not talking about the diamond industry, in which Israeli and Diaspora Jews are heavily involved, but in the purchase and wearing of diamonds.

Give me a happy ending

I\’m so happy that my parents are happy. Each of them are very much in love — just not with the other.

Is everyone weird?

It\’s my opinion that none of us who are single at 40 are rocket scientists at love (or we wouldn\’t be so uncomfortably solitary in the first place), so drawing the weird requires a little seaside introspection, a new charting of the waves and a definite refocusing of the ship\’s trajectory.

I challenged karma, but did the karma win?

I\’ve now have been living in Los Angeles for five years, and the hippie-dippie-yoga-Pilates-karma-kabbalah-astrology-Burning Man-surfer-superstitious-psychic-feng shui-acupuncturist-vegetarian ethos has invaded my life. (I\’m embarrassed to say I practice some of the above now.)

And nothing but the truth

Internet dating — everyone does it, and everyone complains about it. Why? The guys think the girls lie, and the girls think the guys lie. And the truth is: everybody lies.

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