Al Hampel calls his wife Dorothy “Nurse Ratchett.” When they met 60 years ago, she supervised his work as a copywriter, and ran a tight ship. Today, at Brookdale Senior Living, she’s famous for her feisty attitude. Humor is one of the things that’s kept them together. Al makes fun of Dorothy for wearing gold…
Take a closer look at that love stamp on your Valentines Day cards — this year it’s not your typical cherub. Yulia Brodskaya, a Jewish artist, designed the whimsical heart in the 2016 edition using her own spin on the ancient technique of quilling. The Washington Post reports that it took months to plan out…
Valentine’s Day is upon us, and ignoring the holiday’s relatively morbid roots in favor of its relatively charming modern incarnation, what better way to celebrate than with the romantic musings of some beloved Jewish writers? Should you be in need of lofty-sounding fodder with which to celebrate your loved ones — or woo those you’d…
Valentine’s Day is this weekend. Do you have that special card for your sweetheart? If you’ve waited too long all the good cards are sold out at the drug store and your only options have cartoon bears holding a heart on the cover. What to do? What to do? Have no fear, the Forward is…
Lior Zaltzman Many people might be weirded out that their blind date took them to a two hour lecture on monsters and mythical creatures at Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum. I loved it. It was afterwards when I actually had to start talking to my date that things turned south rather quickly. He had been talking…
Getty Images Saturday is Valentine’s Day. For couples, this means chocolates, birds chirping “La Vie en Rose” and an explosion of heart-shaped confetti. If you’re single, it means burrowing under your covers with Netflix and a bottle of wine, waiting for February 15 to roll around. Whatever category you fall under, our favorite octogenarian sex…
(JTA) — Many students want to emulate their teachers, but at least one early rabbi took this to an extreme. The Talmud records that Rav Kahana was so eager to learn his master’s secrets that he even once observed his teacher having sex. Kahana lay under the bed of his teacher Rav, heard him talking…
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’re launching a new comics series about Jewish dating misadventures! Let’s celebrate our dating fails! Do you have your own horrific or hilarious stories about Jewish online (or offline dating)? Tweet us a story with #OYDATE to @jdforward. Or e-mail your stories to zaltzman@forward.com with the title OYDATE –…
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