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23 Jul

Beshert | Friends First. Fast Forward, 2020

July 23, 2021
By Sophie Mindes
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He is kind, thoughtful, and laughs easily. Parents love him—he asks for the recipe after eating my dad’s chicken, he is there for IT su...

15 Jul

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Beshert | Inside Our Gates

July 15, 2021
By Donna Rachel Edmunds
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Josh and I met in Jerusalem, just outside the Jaffa Gate. He was a tour guide before COVID-19 brought the tourist trade shuddering to a...

02 Jul

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Beshert | Bestie In My Building, Part II

July 15, 2021
By Kat Akcakanat
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When I wrote my first Beshert piece, it was during happier, more carefree times. I’d just met my bestie after living in the apartment a...

24 Jun

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Beshert | Finding My Childhood Bestie—60 Years Later!

July 1, 2021
By Janet Nussbaum
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My beshert moment on that unforgettable day wrapped me in so many memories of my childhood. In the early 1940s, as kids growing up in t...

10 Jun

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Beshert | “Change Your Space, Change Your Life”

June 24, 2021
By Melissa Greenwood
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My husband and I met as I, a lifelong Angelino, was fleeing Los Angeles. I had just lost a live-in boyfriend to a break-up and a job to...

03 Jun

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Beshert | Dancing in the Rain

June 24, 2021
By Barbara Draimin
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For years before we met, Ellen and I had assumed that a miracle relationship was out of our grasps. I had given up because I thought th...

20 May

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Beshert | When Cats Fly

June 18, 2021
By Pam Janis
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“Your cat is in business class.” Startled, I looked up from my magazine and regarded the flight attendant. She couldn’t mean my cat,...

30 Apr

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Beshert | Six Degrees of Aunt Beck

May 18, 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...

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