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.
Lydia has dated Mark for three months and characterizes their relationship as \”still being in that blissful, lovey-dovey phase.\” There\’s only one problem. He\’s not Jewish.
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.
Six years ago, Sherry Singer opened her own matchmaking service, Meet-A-Mate, with the help of her mother, Eva.
Boteach, a 33-year-old Lubavitch showman whose provocative books and flair for marketing have drawn international attention to Jewish teachings on sexual ethics, is no newcomer to such staged debates.
\”I\’m not crying for them,\” she whispers. \”I\’m crying for me. No one\’s going to make my heart their home.\”\”I know,\” I confess. \”Someone might make my heart their apartment, but they\’ll ruin the carpets and insist on a month-to-month lease.\”
Stuart Blumberg remembers the days when he was a struggling writer, rooming in New York with his buddy, Edward Norton, the struggling actor.
There will be no burning of photos, no vindictive giving back of stuffed animals, no late night hang up calls. This will be the best breakup I\’ve ever had. \”Let\’s just be friends\” will ascend from cliché to reality.
Without the personal ads of The Jewish Journal I would have never met Lorie and the mitzvah that we have together, and with our children, would have never happened. With the help of The Jewish Journal, we were able to find each other even on \”the other side of the hill.\”
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