The Wedding When love is not blind
Who: Neil Levin and Belinda Bowman When: Sunday, December 12, 2004 Where: The Great Synagogue, with reception at the Rydges Jamison…
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The Wedding Winning her over with healthy intentions
WHEN Josh Ginges spotted Debbie Bergman dancing at a United Israel Appeal function he knew she was the one for him — he just had to prove it…
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ANDREW Sharp and Mai Thai met a decade ago at Accenture, where they both worked in information technology. It took almost three years before their friendship became a relationship,…
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Who: Jason Berman and Leah Jaffe When: Sunday, January 9 Where: Pasadena on Pittwater restaurant Rabbis: David Rogut and Paul Lewin…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wedding a seaplane romance Author: Mark Skurnik and Belinda Wood When: Sunday, January 30 Where: Rydges Jamison hotel Celebrant: Nitza Lowenstein
WHEN mutual friends decided that they might get along well, Belinda Wood, and Mark Skumik, agreed to go on a blind date. After a successful first date at Hugo's Lounge, the…
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THREE years ago, Idit Spindel decided to go to her first Jewish Communal Appeal function. Wishing not to go alone, she called a friend who said that she would accompany…
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GREG Blumenthal and Rozanne Hasson met three and a half years ago, yet neither remembers exactly how or where. Blumenthal, 26, thinks "it could have…
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Who: Rodney Spitzer and Romy Friedman When: Sunday, February 27 Where: Stamford Plaza, Double Bay Rabbi: Levi Wolff…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lost world of Iran Book Review Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman Farideh Goldin Brandeis University Press, $45
THIS amazing book is a record of a Jewish world lost twice. The secluded women’s world of provincial Iranian Jews existed in Shiraz for…
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MORE than four years ago, Viviane Rubinstein went on a blind date with a Los Angeles businessman while he was in Sydney. The date began at a Japanese…
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SIMON Bando and Jackie Weiner go back a long way. It's one of those connections that involves first cousins and best friends and eight-year-olds' birthday parties…
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JONATHAN Struggles was not supposed to be in Holland on a fateful weekend in October, 2002. But the English lawyer changed his travel plans and stayed in The…
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IT was a wedding with a Jewish twist in one of the most unorthodox of venues imaginable. Last Sunday, Dave Holtzner married…
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JESSICA Swaab now laughs at the time when she and Gavin used to work together. “It was about seven years ago. He was the boss and I was the secretary. I know…
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Who: Mark Fletcher and Melissa Huggard When: Sunday, April 10 Where: Ceremony at Blackburn Gardens, reception at Arena, Fox Studios…
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Who: Shai Luft and Inbal Reed When: Sunday, April 17 Where: Ceremony at Mona Vale Headlands, reception at Whale Beach…
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ROBERT Traurig and Dana Wapnick met at a “Table for 8” function, but it may as well have been a table for two. There was an instant connection and the two started…
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JONNY Sack and Dalya Zaidel met last year in Jerusalem. It was around Simchat Torah and both knew that it was right straight away. When asked what they had in common, Sack…
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LATE one October night Sasha Derunovsky downloaded the ICQ internet chat program onto her computer. She typed in some search criteria, hoping to speak to a male who…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A mikvah, two simchas and ganza mishpocha Leigh Godin talks to Angie Fox about the agony and ecstasy of organising a conversion, bar mitzvah and wedding all at once
WHEN South African-born Leigh Godin emerged from the Bondi mikvah, having just completed her conversion to…
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