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We’ll Turn Manhattan Into An Isle Of …

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:31:04 +0000

Flying from Israel to New York for a date? Looking for some sizzle, from the Morgan to the latest Woody Allen flick.

Abigail Pickus

Special To The Jewish Week

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

It was a Jewish Week story that tipped me off to the fortune teller. He was Jewish and had a “branch office” somewhere near Times Square, which is another way of saying he accepted walk-ins from the little stretch of sidewalk he called his own.

Planned (Single) Parenthood

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:28:58 +0000

Single mothers bridge the world of play dates and real dates. It can be an emotional balancing act.

Elicia Brown

Special To The Jewish Week

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

It is a brisk afternoon in early November, and Faith Tomases has dressed accordingly, moving stiffly beneath layers of warmth, her long chestnut hair swept beneath a black beret. But watching Tomases’ daughter Julia, one would expect an entirely different climate.

To Be Young, Gifted And Orthodox — And Divorced

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:27:19 +0000

Getting back in the dating game can be very dicey.

Rivka Oppenheim

Special To The Jewish Week

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Cheerful and determined, Cynthia Galimidi is ready to find her soul mate — again.

At 29, the Hillside, N.J., resident has started dating again after more than seven years of marriage. Many people are just getting married or starting a family in their late 20s. Galimidi has four daughters — ages 8, 6, 5 and 3.

She knows that’s a daunting prospect for potential suitors.

A Secret Love No More

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:25:37 +0000

Interdating isn’t the boogeyman it once was. Could it actually lead to increased Jewish involvement?

Julie Wiener

Associate Editor

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Eight years ago, as director of a United Synagogue Youth chapter on the West Coast, Lisa Fogelson came up against Section Five, Line 2.

A few pages into the Conservative youth group’s constitution, in between the expectation that teen officers attend religious services and refrain from drugs and alcohol, is the line: “It is expected that leaders of the organization will refrain from relationships which can be construed as interdating.”

Singles Of A Certain Age

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:23:47 +0000

For those 40 and above, balancing independence and loneliness.

Doug Chandler

Special To The Jewish Week

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Andrew Schiff likes his independence, he says — especially the ability to see friends according on his own schedule and to pursue his many interests and passions, which include baseball and music.

But the 42-year-old resident of the Upper East Side feels lonely at times and hopes to find a partner and raise children — a realization that often strikes him when he leaves his apartment and notices happy couples.

Can Bad Dates Make Good Theater?

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:21:21 +0000

Four women writers turn their adventures in singledom into Off-Broadway plays.

Alan Zeitlin

Special To The Jewish Week

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

On the Off-Broadway stage these days, the date’s the thing. The Jewish date, that is.

In a quirk of theater programming (and perhaps a collective indictment of the Jewish singles scene, or at least Jewish men), no fewer than four plays of late — all by Jewish women — mine the dating lives of their authors. And they expose some of raw nerves that make dating such a sensitive proposition these days: the pull and peril of online dating, the obstacle posed by religious differences and the thorny issue of Jewish identity.

East (And West) Of Eden

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:18:30 +0000

Singles are discovering that, yes, there is life beyond the Upper West Side. From the boroughs to Teaneck, is geography
really dating destiny?

Rivka Oppenheim

Special To The Jewish Week

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Call it The Great Singles Migration. OK, Almost Great.

Liz Wallenstein is one of the new émigrés. The 31-year-old psychotherapist lived in both Washington Heights and the Upper West Side before moving to Flatbush, a Brooklyn neighborhood known more for its kosher pizza options than for an active singles scene.

“I wasn’t in love with the West Side,” said Wallenstein. “I had been there for four years. I felt like I was there because I didn’t know where else to be.

First Nights

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:02:59 +0000

From tried-and-true to hip-and-trendy, these dating venues hit the spot.

Elicia Brown

Special To The Jewish Week

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

During that first hour alone with Jeremy, I wasn’t sure of his intentions. He’d suggested we meet at a café. Was romance brewing — or only coffee?

Tuesday, The Rabbi Went Out

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:00:35 +0000

The largely uncharted (an unspoken-of) territory of being single in the clergy.

Sandee Brawarsky

Special To The Jewish Week

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

There’s probably not another profession, outside of royalty, where the spouse gains a title upon marriage. Even if the traditional role of the rabbi’s spouse, or rebbetzin, has changed considerably in this generation, there’s still recognition of the supporting role a spouse might play, publicly and privately. (And there’s no name yet for the husband of a female rabbi, but plenty of playful attempts like rebbitz-sir).

All It Takes Is One

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:57:40 +0000

Robert Goldblum

Managing Editor

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

With its size and sizzle, New York is a singles paradise. Here, grazing your shoulder on the packed 1 train; there, peering at you from behind a folded Times in line at the Angelika, a soul mate calls. Multiply that close encounter by — what? — a million. A gambler — or a single guy or gal — would take those odds.

Directions December 2010

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:54:26 +0000

A New York Romance: Jewish Singles Today, Loving and Longing. Single rabbis looking for love; best first-date spots; to be young, gifted, Orthodox -- and divorced.

Staff Writer

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Endless Highway

Gabriela — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:18:11 +0000

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Robert Goldblum

Managing Editor

“Away, I’m bound away, ‘Cross the wide Missouri.” — “Shenandoah,” American folk song

'A Web of Affection'

Gabriela — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:16:33 +0000

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Robert Goldblum

Managing Editor

E.B. White, the lyrical New Yorker writer and children’s book author, knew a thing or two about heroes, especially the unsung kind. He knew the power of the small, yet profound, human gesture, the tender mercies extended from one person to another in need. And he suggested that in the realm of human relations, only one metaphor really mattered: the web. Our differences aside, we are all tethered to one another, as if to a web, tied by invisible — even mystical — strands. Heroes understand this more clearly than the rest of us.

Downtown: A Tale Of Redemption

Gabriela — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:08:30 +0000

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by Robert Goldblum

Managing Editor

In a high-lonesome twang right out of the piney woods of the Ozarks, rock and roll Americanist Levon Helm sings of “a sorrow in the wind / blowin’ down the road I’ve been / I can hear it cry while shadows steal the sun.” Helm was the soulful, Arkansas-raised drummer in the pioneering ‘60s roots rock group The Band, and the song is an old gospel tune “Wide River to Cross” on his new CD, “Dirt Farmer.” It’s a prayer, really, a poignant hymn to loss but also a declaration that life rambles on, that “I’m only halfway home,

Endless Highway

Gabriela — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:57:03 +0000

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by Robert Goldblum

Managing Editor

“Away, I’m bound away, ‘Cross the wide Missouri.” — “Shenandoah,” American folk song