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30 Apr

Beshert | Six Degrees of Aunt Beck

April 30, 2021
By Michael Lipsky
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As editor of my college newspaper, the Oberlin Review, part of my job was to ensure that capable underclassmen were in place to lead it...

22 Apr

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Beshert | Inching Out of a Pandemic

May 6, 2021
By Leah Levy
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It’s that time of year in Texas when walking down the sidewalk or over a knot of roots or down a driveway has us weaving through caterp...

15 Apr

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Beshert | The Compatibility Walk

April 30, 2021
By Fran Scheffler-Siegel
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A week after we met in the weight room of the Mid-Westchester JCC, we went for a compatibility walk. Steve, the widower of just a few m...

08 Apr

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Beshert | Finding My Tribe

April 16, 2021
By Diane Cohen Schneider
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I was raised in Downers Grove, Illinois—the kind of place with so few Jews that when someone found out I was Jewish, they’d always ask,...

01 Apr

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Beshert | “Apartners”—After He Buffed the Scratch on Her Car

April 5, 2021
By Carolee Goodgold
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Kenny and I knew each other for years. I'm a singer, he's a drummer. In the club date biz, you freelance and show up in your black dres...

18 Mar

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Beshert | “It’s Rare to Meet a Kindred Spirit…”

April 5, 2021
By Gina Roitman
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In 1993, my PR agency was launching a German company’s product and I was collecting the team at Montreal’s Dorval airport. Two men were...

04 Mar

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Beshert | The Meant-To-Be Coffee Pot

April 5, 2021
By Judi Connery
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Judi Connery admired her mother’s classic coffee pot painting. In the midst of a pandemic, when she needed it most, the coffee pot found her.

25 Feb

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Beshert | A Pandemic Pup with a Name of Her Own

April 5, 2021
By Katherine Seligman
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We called her Toots, for about a day. And then I could not look at our wild-haired, chipmunk-size puppy and call her that name, which b...

18 Feb

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Beshert | All the Light We Cannot See

April 5, 2021
By Pam Janis
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It’s been a tough week, generally speaking, to present the idea of beshert as a positive “meant-to-be” experience. Snow. Ice. Massive p...

12 Feb

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Beshert | In a Pandemic, In a Foreign Country, Really? Yes!

April 5, 2021
By Eytan Fainman
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In January 2020, soon after I arrived in Tel Aviv, I was walking out of class with a friend when I first saw her. We were in the same M...

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