Tag: relationships

Super Speed Dating (or the Swayamvar is Back)

What is common to a Rabbi and dating? Sounds like the start to a bad joke, but it is in fact a serious question, one that you probably don’t know the answer to, unless you googled it or you happen to be Arul Mani. So allow me tell you the answer: speed dating. That’s right. This ultra fast form of dating popularised in the 1990s by Sex and the City and other TV shows in the US was devised by a Rabbi of an...
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Until Death Do Us Part

Sometimes, my primary care encounters teach me far more about the complexities of being human, and about life, than any psychotherapy session. I look at the name on the chart before walking into the examination room. It’s Mr. Carlson, and the nurse has noted that he has had pain in his abdomen for the last 2 days. “Mr. Carlson, how are you?” I shake his hand. His wife’s face is buried in a recent issue...
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