02
Jul
I’ve always been super confident in most things but faltered when it came to dating and love. I was looking for ease and perfection. An...
25
Jun
Beshert | Finding My Own Kind
My Grandma Phyllis always told me to “Stick to your own kind” when it came to dating. But to her disappointment, I’d never dated anothe...
18
Jun
Beshert | Pot, Meet Cover
“For every pot, there’s a cover.” That’s what my grandmother of blessed memory always said, never giving up her hope for me. But I was ...
11
Jun
Beshert | ‘I Have Found Me a Home’
“I met my beshert 25 years ago this past March. I had just come off a year of not dating after a bad relationship. I was getting more comfortable with myself and what made me happy and decided that part of that happiness would be a loving, supportive relationship.”
04
Jun
Beshert | He Was Nothing Like I’d Pictured
I met my husband 33 years ago at a party for a physicist I didn’t know. My neighbor invited me to increase the estrogen quota. I went f...
28
May
Beshert | A Face in the Crowd Led Me Home
At 26, I was coming off a traumatic divorce that led me to distrust everything I knew to be true in this world. Desperate to figure out...
21
May
Beshert | Sealed with a Kiss
The kiss could have been in a movie. Fun, spontaneous, performed in a crowded room for everyone to witness. Unfortunately, I was not the recipient. With horror, I watched as my Russian uncle, newly arrived in the United States, grabbed my future husband’s face with both hands and planted a heavy lip-on-lip kiss blaring in Russian, “Hello, I am your uncle!”
14
May
Beshert | Shabbat-a-Bing-Bada-Boom!
“Someday,” my boyfriend David said to me dreamily, “we’ll have Shabbat dinners at our house.”
“Yeah right,” I guffawed. “I guess yo...
07
May
Beshert | The Bravest Person I Know
“Adopting an older child was beshert— my girl and I were meant to be together. It’s the best decision I’ve ever made.”
30
Apr
Beshert | Oh No, Not the Friend Zone! And Then…
Thank God I got friend-zoned by my boyfriend.
When I initially spotted Jason at a Hillel event during my freshman year of college, i...