December 7, 2007
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Writer: Nancy Butler
November 23, 2007
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Making aliyah together
This Cliffside Park couple’s shared faith led them to move to Israel — not once, but twice. Both Sol Borodkin and Thelma Litwak were born and raised in Brooklyn, he in Crown Heights, she in Brownsville. "He used to kid me that he married beneath him because he was from a better neighborhood," Thelma says […]
August 10, 2007
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Fifty years and counting
Peter Adler came to America from Germany as an 8-year-old boy, after his widowed mother managed to get the family, which included his brother Frank, out of Nazi Germany. She settled with her sons in New York’s Washington Heights. When his mother remarried, the family moved to Forest Hills, Queens. Ruth Rose grew up in […]
June 15, 2007
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A reunion of hearts: Rekindling the flames of an old love
Annice Miller Schear has spent most of her life in Ohio — growing up in Cleveland, going to the University in Cincinnati, and working as a music teacher. But for five summers, from the time she was 14, she’d attended Kutz Camp in Warwick, N.Y. Annice Schear and David Benamy "They’d started up a teacher […]
June 8, 2007
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A new beginning
Retirement can lead to a stressful period of adjustment for some couples — but for Ken and Diana Goldstein it was a time of rediscovery and reawakening. Ken and Diana Goldstein Ken Goldstein was raised in Brooklyn and began attending NYU, expecting to graduate in 1965. But a year and a half later, his family […]
May 11, 2007
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Auditioning for marriage
Sara Budweiser grew up in Akron, Ohio, loving music, especially playing the violin. Marvin Felder, who was raised in the Bronx, was a keen student of science and studied physics in college. As modern behaviorists might point out, these two exemplified the polar concepts of right brain and left brain, or the creative versus the […]
May 4, 2007
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Every couple has a story
Whenever I encounter couples who are hesitant about participating in a Bashert interview, the first objection they usually raise is, "We really don’t have much of a story" — and then proceed to talk about their relationship for 30 minutes or more. One thing I’ve learned in nearly two years of writing this column is […]
April 27, 2007
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Faith and love
Religion and show business often produce kindred spirits, as this Pompton Lakes couple discovered. A fourth-generation rabbi, David Senter grew up in North Bergen and Teaneck. "I was born in Christ Hospital in Jersey City," he says with a chuckle. "A bit strange for a future rabbi." After attending Yeshiva University High School, he continued […]
April 12, 2007
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Falling into place
Bill and Phyllis Lowe Sometimes that special bashert union isn’t played out until the second act of a couple’s life. Phyllis Kaplan and Bill Lowe were both born in Brooklyn; both eventually married and had children. After their respective divorces they remained single for many years, busy working and raising their kids. It was not […]
March 29, 2007
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An uncommon bond
Not every high school romance manages to grow and thrive, but this North Jersey couple made an easy transition from dating teens to globetrotting soul mates. Paula Millenthal grew up in Union City and then Cliffside Park. "But I actually spent a lot of time in Hoboken," she says. "I had family there and went […]
March 22, 2007
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March 15, 2007
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Five golden decades and still going strong
This year is a significant one for Judy and Marty Lebson. Not only will they be celebrating their golden wedding anniversary in August, but on Rosh HaShanah, the Tenafly residents will have been members of Temple Emanu-El, now in Closter, for 50 years. On March ‘4 the Lebsons will be honored by the congregation to […]
March 8, 2007
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‘How do I love thee?’
Linda Steinberg and Rob VanGrover grew up 15 minutes from each other in Queens. But it wasn’t until they were both attending SUNY Albany that they met in person. Rob and Linda VanGrover "I first saw Linda walking through my dorm with a guy," Rob recalls. "I was sitting in the lounge with my friend […]
February 22, 2007
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Romancing with the write stuff
Francie Weinman grew up on the South Side of Chicago, and in Skokie, Ill. She attended Washington University in St. Louis and finished her degree at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern. During her senior year, her women’s journalism group was touring a local radio station, ABC affiliate WLS, and as she watched the […]
February 15, 2007
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