Aviva Slesin\’s affecting but unsentimental documentary focuses on the psychological aftermath of hiding, such as the sense of abandonment child survivors carried into adulthood and the difficulty rebonding with parents.
In the framework of public obligation and commandment, Jewish men are the central characters of wedding ceremonies, with women taking a more passive role.
\”Beyond the Chuppah,\” co-authored by Crohn, Howard J. Markman, Susan L. Blumberg and Janice Levine, is designed to help couples recognize the signs to avoid conflict, identify when a relationship is resilient and help it weather confrontation.
Of all the weddings I\’ve attended, nothing compares to the spectacle that is the Jewish French wedding.
My 9-year-old son comes home from school each day and rants about how much he hates school.
I\’m recently divorced (after more than 30 years of marriage), an educated and, I thought, pretty savvy woman. I have been dating a charming man now for almost two months. Recently we became intimate, and of course I expected our relationship to change.
One of my favorite jokes goes: \”You want to make God laugh? Make plans.\” I assume a wedding must be one of God\’s favorite jokes. They take more planning than preproduction for a feature film.
I didn\’t do much today but drive.No one died. No jobs were lost or won. I didn\’t run into an old boyfriend, have an epiphany or a traffic accident.
It\’s not every day your mother has a shotgun wedding at a Las Vegas chapel, so it was a special moment.
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