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A wedding in Venice
We were touring the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, Italy, which is commemorating its 500th year, when I struck up a conversation with a lovely couple, Lana Atlasov and David Mednick, from the San Francisco area.
Five questions you may want to ask yourself if you are single
Are you afraid of getting close? Do you follow a pattern of backing out of relationships once they get serious?
Israel is swamped with singles
Israelis are known for their gregarious behavior and love nothing more than spending time with their group of close friends. It’s a trait that is wreaking havoc among the quickly mushrooming singles population and threatens to have long-range anthropological effects on Israel’s future society.
Chasing parental boredom while catching some foreign films
I was in seventh grade when my dad took me to see a Turkish movie exploring the lives of five prisoners given a week’s home leave in the aftermath of a coup d’etat.
My Single Peeps: Susan B.
When Susan first e-mailed me, it was to pitch herself to one of my single peeps. One of the pictures she sent me was of her standing, in a blue cocktail dress, one hand leaning on a silver Aston Martin, in the driveway of a beautiful home. Not wanting my peep to think she was high maintenance, she made it clear that the picture was taken at a party and it wasn’t her car. “The only reason I sent the picture is because my guy friends insisted on it, but I’m much more like the cool girl next door.” I liked the honesty and asked her if she wanted to become a Single Peep.\n
My Single Peeps: Charles P.
I wrote and starred in a short film, and the director brought Charles in as DP (director of photography). I’ve shot quite a few videos before — always simple setups with a small crew. So when I asked my friend Yitzy if we could use his apartment to shoot a video, I assured him it would be unassuming.
Status symbol
Status used to be about social hierarchy — whether you made a good living or were born into the right family or had achieved prominence in your community. But these days, if you say the word \”status\” to Generation Single-and-Facebooking, you may be understood very differently
Goodbye, my almost
In an earlier column I talked about the differences between an \”almost\” and a \”beshert,\” and how I will always have a special place in my heart for that \”almost\” who helped me to find myself and the person that I\’m supposed to be with. What I realize now is that as time goes by, my \”almost,\” just like nearly every memory of old friendships, is starting to fade in importance.