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November 13, 2003
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November 13, 2003
She Said: A Day Fit for a Family
Wendy J. Madnick
November 13, 2003
My wedding story begins with a dress. Not just any dress, but the kind that makes people\’s heads turn when the wearer walks into a room.
He Said: Ready for Second Time Around
Adam Wills
November 13, 2003
I spent months planning our weekend trip to Las Vegas: from an indulgent massage at Mandara day spa and dinner at Mon Ami Gabi to \”Mamma Mia\” at the Mandalay Bay. Wendy was having a fabulous time.
But when I suggested we go to the top of the Eiffel Tower replica at Paris, where we were staying, my Francophile stopped me cold at the elevator.
\”We need to talk,\” she said.
A Portrait of My Wedding
Soriya Daniels
November 13, 2003
After only two hours of sleep, I woke up on Aug. 13, 2000, to the sounds of drizzle hitting my hotel window. With a pit in my stomach, I got out of bed — terrified and excited all at once. It was my wedding day, the culmination of three months of harried planning. I desperately wanted everything about this day to be perfect, to reflect the perfect love that Brad and I shared.
In Sickness and in Taffeta
Carin Davis
November 13, 2003
As a woman prepares to say \”I do,\” her friends prepare to stand by her side in purple puffy dresses and lavender dyed shoes. In sickness and in health, in velour and in taffeta, in chartreuse and in lemon. As her bridesmaids, they will participate in a tradition that may be as old as Judaism itself.
Sit Down and Be Counted
Carin Davis
November 13, 2003
We\’ve all heard the wedding hora horror stories, where the beautiful bride plummets 10 feet to the ground with a thud — another unfortunate victim of the Jewish chair-dance tradition. Well, the MitzvahChair will put the kibosh on that newlywed nightmare.
Communal Joy for Seven Days
Mark Mietkiewiczis
November 13, 2003
May there soon be heard, Lord our G-d, in the cities of Judea and in the streets of Jerusalem, the sound of joy and the sound of celebration, the voice of a bridegroom and the voice of a bride, the happy shouting of bridegrooms from their weddings and of young men from their feasts of song. — From the Sheva Brachot, the Jewish wedding blessings, www.ou.org/wedding/7brachot.htm
Second Honeymoon
Jane Ulman
November 13, 2003
\”Are you in for another 20?\” my husband, Larry, asks. We\’re lounging on the beach on the Hawaiian island of Lanai, a brief
escape to relax and reconnect as a couple, to celebrate and contemplate two decades of marriage.
Exactly 20 years earlier we were standing under a chuppah at the Beverly Hills Hotel, reciting our marriage vows. It was Purim, 1983, and just as Esther had saved the Jews from Haman\’s evil plot, so Larry was rescuing me from my less-than-fulfilling life as a 30-something single woman.
Sex Secrets of the Mystical Texts
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
November 13, 2003
In the Jewish marriage ceremony, sexual satisfaction is part of the contract. Under the wedding canopy, a groom promises his bride that he will provide her with comfortable standards of food, shelter and sexual gratification. The holiest men are required to marry. Celibacy is not a virtue; orgasms are.
No Jewish Child Left Behind
George D. Hanus
November 13, 2003
Amid the troubling statistics of the 2000 National Jewish Population Survey, there is one genuinely positive trend. The percentage of children in Jewish day schools is the highest it\’s ever been. Twenty-nine percent of Jewish children today have attended a day school at some point.
Many Jewish parents have recognized that a day school education can give their kids the strong identity and sense of rootedness that they need to navigate an increasingly complex world.
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