These are more stories of beshert, of relationships that are \”meant to be,\” with a little help from The Jewish Journal. Over the past year, at least five couples have called us to announce their personal-ad-inspired nuptials. And, no, they weren\’t ashamed to admit how they met. Gone is the stigma that ads are for people who are really desperate, they insist.\n
How close can two people of disparate religiouspractices become? On Shabbat, who knows?
Nothing was reserved for the sacred in my family.And everything was subjected to trial by humor. My grandmotherSarah\’s seven children formed a family-circle club and named it theGarnet Group — after the gemstone associated with January, the monththey decided to hold the first meeting more than four decades ago.
When my kids were still preschoolers,young enough to be influenced by my every word, I used to have this spiel about marrying out of Judaism. It went something like this:\”It\’s an insult to the 6 million who died only because they were Jewish.\” I figured that you can\’t start early enough on the road to the chuppah. Now, both of my children are chuppah material. And I am spiel-less.
I was smitten the first second I saw him — the astro physicist who broke my heart.
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