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romance
How Jewish Communities are Sneaking Romance Back into the Younger Generations
Miranda Richmond Mouillot’s fascination with an ancestral divorce
Acknowledging her own anger frightens Miranda Richmond Mouillot more than she realizes, as we discover in her new book, “A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War and a Ruined House in France” (Crown).
An age of broken glances: On ‘Why Love Hurts’
Each time I officiate at a marriage, I perpetrate a small fraud. I read the ketubah, the marriage contract, in its original Aramaic and then I read the “translation.\”
One more time around
Finding love a second or third time is not always so effortless, but 52 percent of men and 43.5 percent of women remarried in 2004, according to a 2007 U.S. census bureau report. And Jews are no exception.
The Connector
But they can\’t give me credit — only God can. It says if you make three successful shidduchim, three matches, you automatically go to heaven. And this High Holy Day season I was thinking that I\’d really like an automatic pass. (\”Go directly to heaven. Do not pass hell; do not collect $200.) Three should be easy enough. I meet so many guys who just because they aren\’t for me doesn\’t mean they wouldn\’t be good for someone. What if this is my purpose in life? What if the point of my meeting so many people is to serve as what Malcolm Gladwell, in his book, \”The Tipping Point,\” calls \”The connector?\” I feel heady with possibilities.