Eat, Pray, Love. Then What? Get Married.
Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book, “Committed,” is scheduled for release in January
By MOTOKO RICH
Published: August 19, 2009
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“I spent about 10 months trying to learn as much as I could possibly learn about this very frustrating, contradictory and ultimately interesting human habit,” Ms. Gilbert said."
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
These are actual Personal Ads from Israeli newspapers
I take out the Torah Saturday morning. Would like to take you out Saturday night.
Divorced Jewish man seeks partner to attend shul, light shabbos candles, celebrate holidays, build Sukkah together, attend brisses, bar mitzvahs - religion not important.
Orthodox woman with get, seeks man who got get or can get get. Get it? I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Sincere rabbinical student, 27, enjoys Yom Kippur,Tisha B'av, Taanis Esther, Tzom Gedalia, Asarah B'Teves, Shiva Asar b'Tammuz. Seeks companion for living life in the 'fast' lane.
Yeshiva bochur, Torah scholar, long beard, payos. Seeks same in woman.
Nice Jewish guy, 38. No skeletons. No baggage. No personality.
Female graduate student, studying kaballah, Zohar, exorcism of dybbuks, seeks mensch. No weirdos, please.
Jewish businessman, 49, manufactures Sabbath candles, Chanukah candles, havdallah candles,Yahrzeit candles. Seeks non-smoker.
I am a sensitive Jewish prince whom you can open your heart to, share your innermost thought and deepest secrets. Confide in me. I'll understand your insecurities. No fatties, please.
Couch potato latke in search of the right applesauce. Let's try it for 8 days. Who knows?
Jewish male, 34, very successful, smart, independent, self-made, looking for girl whose father will hire me.
Divorced Jewish man seeks partner to attend shul, light shabbos candles, celebrate holidays, build Sukkah together, attend brisses, bar mitzvahs - religion not important.
Orthodox woman with get, seeks man who got get or can get get. Get it? I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Sincere rabbinical student, 27, enjoys Yom Kippur,Tisha B'av, Taanis Esther, Tzom Gedalia, Asarah B'Teves, Shiva Asar b'Tammuz. Seeks companion for living life in the 'fast' lane.
Yeshiva bochur, Torah scholar, long beard, payos. Seeks same in woman.
Nice Jewish guy, 38. No skeletons. No baggage. No personality.
Female graduate student, studying kaballah, Zohar, exorcism of dybbuks, seeks mensch. No weirdos, please.
Jewish businessman, 49, manufactures Sabbath candles, Chanukah candles, havdallah candles,Yahrzeit candles. Seeks non-smoker.
I am a sensitive Jewish prince whom you can open your heart to, share your innermost thought and deepest secrets. Confide in me. I'll understand your insecurities. No fatties, please.
Couch potato latke in search of the right applesauce. Let's try it for 8 days. Who knows?
Jewish male, 34, very successful, smart, independent, self-made, looking for girl whose father will hire me.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Kiss
Words of Wisdom...
It's ok to kiss a fool.
It's ok to let a fool kiss you.
But don't let a kiss fool you.
It's ok to kiss a fool.
It's ok to let a fool kiss you.
But don't let a kiss fool you.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Another Obama Program .... for the shidduch crises
Another Obama Program
After successfully solving the banking, mortgage, automobile, and housing crisis’s, President Barack Obama has now turned his attention to solving the ultimate problem - The Shidduch Crisis.
After much consultation with his close advisors, the president has unveiled his Kallah’s for Clunkers program. With broad bipartisan support, and modeled after the successful Cars for Clunkers program, the deal offers any married man $4500 to leave his current wife and engage a girl of at least 22 years of age. With this one bold act, thousands of young girls currently in crises mode will be taken off the market, making the even younger girls available for the just freezer-released Yeshiva bochurim.
In addition, the anticipated surge of uffrufs, weddings, and sheva brochos that this initiative will cause, will hopefully jumpstart and stimulate the stagnant heimishe economy, with spending on simchah baskets, party planners, and other wasteful expenditures. President Obama has successfully resolved a crisis that many experts have spent so many years trying to solve proving true once again his slogan – Obama: Exchange We Can Believe In!
After successfully solving the banking, mortgage, automobile, and housing crisis’s, President Barack Obama has now turned his attention to solving the ultimate problem - The Shidduch Crisis.
After much consultation with his close advisors, the president has unveiled his Kallah’s for Clunkers program. With broad bipartisan support, and modeled after the successful Cars for Clunkers program, the deal offers any married man $4500 to leave his current wife and engage a girl of at least 22 years of age. With this one bold act, thousands of young girls currently in crises mode will be taken off the market, making the even younger girls available for the just freezer-released Yeshiva bochurim.
In addition, the anticipated surge of uffrufs, weddings, and sheva brochos that this initiative will cause, will hopefully jumpstart and stimulate the stagnant heimishe economy, with spending on simchah baskets, party planners, and other wasteful expenditures. President Obama has successfully resolved a crisis that many experts have spent so many years trying to solve proving true once again his slogan – Obama: Exchange We Can Believe In!
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Is There Hope for the American Marriage?
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The fundamental question we must ask ourselves at the beginning of the century is this: What is the purpose of marriage? Is it — given the game-changing realities of birth control, female equality and the fact that motherhood outside of marriage is no longer stigmatized — simply an institution that has the capacity to increase the pleasure of the adults who enter into it? If so, we might as well hold the wake now: there probably aren't many people whose idea of 24-hour-a-day good times consists of being yoked to the same romantic partner, through bouts of stomach flu and depression, financial setbacks and emotional upsets, until after many a long decade, one or the other eventually dies in harness.
Or is marriage an institution that still hews to its old intention and function — to raise the next generation, to protect and teach it, to instill in it the habits of conduct and character that will ensure the generation's own safe passage into adulthood? Think of it this way: the current generation of children, the one watching commitments between adults snap like dry twigs and observing parents who simply can't be bothered to marry each other and who hence drift in and out of their children's lives — that's the generation who will be taking care of us when we are old.
The fundamental question we must ask ourselves at the beginning of the century is this: What is the purpose of marriage? Is it — given the game-changing realities of birth control, female equality and the fact that motherhood outside of marriage is no longer stigmatized — simply an institution that has the capacity to increase the pleasure of the adults who enter into it? If so, we might as well hold the wake now: there probably aren't many people whose idea of 24-hour-a-day good times consists of being yoked to the same romantic partner, through bouts of stomach flu and depression, financial setbacks and emotional upsets, until after many a long decade, one or the other eventually dies in harness.
Or is marriage an institution that still hews to its old intention and function — to raise the next generation, to protect and teach it, to instill in it the habits of conduct and character that will ensure the generation's own safe passage into adulthood? Think of it this way: the current generation of children, the one watching commitments between adults snap like dry twigs and observing parents who simply can't be bothered to marry each other and who hence drift in and out of their children's lives — that's the generation who will be taking care of us when we are old.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Just look at the hottest new trend in marriage: the 50-year itch
Just look at the hottest new trend in marriage: the 50-year itch.
Linda Lea Viken is a 32-year veteran divorce attorney in Rapid City, S.D. She said she’s seeing a dramatic uptick in the number of divorces among senior citizens. “I’m doing divorces of 50-year marriages,” she said. “You want to say to yourself, ‘You’ve made it this far — are you kidding me?’”
She says the trend is driven by everything from longer life expectancies to the impact of Viagra on the sex lives of seniors. But she also thinks it’s a result of older people mimicking attitudes they’re picking up from younger Americans. “We’re becoming a little bit of a ‘me first’ society,” she said. “It’s becoming difficult to really understand what people want because it’s what they want right now. But tomorrow, they might want something else.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25767.html#ixzz0NM9DzAH9
Linda Lea Viken is a 32-year veteran divorce attorney in Rapid City, S.D. She said she’s seeing a dramatic uptick in the number of divorces among senior citizens. “I’m doing divorces of 50-year marriages,” she said. “You want to say to yourself, ‘You’ve made it this far — are you kidding me?’”
She says the trend is driven by everything from longer life expectancies to the impact of Viagra on the sex lives of seniors. But she also thinks it’s a result of older people mimicking attitudes they’re picking up from younger Americans. “We’re becoming a little bit of a ‘me first’ society,” she said. “It’s becoming difficult to really understand what people want because it’s what they want right now. But tomorrow, they might want something else.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25767.html#ixzz0NM9DzAH9
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