The Season premiere of FOX\’s \”Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy.\” The very intriguing but highly unlikely pairing of a Shomer Shabbos Jewish family from Brookline, Mass. (near Boston), and a coon-huntin\’ family from Olympia, Ky.
Author and former practicing attorney Wendy Jaffe has written an interesting and illuminating work called, \”The Divorce Lawyers\’ Guide to Staying Married.\”
I felt like a third wheel,\” Shirley said. \”I never felt more alone,\” Diane said. \”I felt my oneness,\” Helene added.
In the late 1940s, Ron Farrar\’s and Joan Pachtman\’s passion to help those in need charted the course for personal passion and lifelong matrimony. The West Hills residents met in college, when Ron was a member of a veteran\’s organization and Joan belonged to a service club.
When Esther Goshen-Gottstein\’s husband of 39 years died, she felt like her world had crumbled. \”The bottom had fallen out my life, as in an earthquake, when the ground on which one has stood firmly for years suddenly collapses,\” she writes in \”Surviving Widowhood\” (Gefen, 2002).
It\’s 8 p.m. on Friday and a large crowd has gathered in front of Congregation Ohab Zedek (O.Z.) on Manhattan\’s Upper West Side.
A story is recorded in the inspiring biography about the late Jerusalem rabbi Aryeh Levin, \”A Tzaddik in Our Times.\” One of the rabbi\’s students was about to be married when he came to Reb Aryeh and asked: \”How should I behave toward my wife? How should I treat her?\” Reb Aryeh looked at him in wonder and said: \”How can you ask a question like that? A wife is like your own self. You treat her as you treat yourself.\”
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