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Pre-Marital Counseling

Pre-Marital Counseling

You might say I came to premarital counseling backwards. I spent 19 years as a divorce lawyer, and worked with approximately a thousand litigants. Then in 1995 I became a divorce mediator, and worked with over a thousand couples. That’s a lot of trauma. In mediation, I worked with couples who had a failed marital relationship, yet wanted to have…

Creating Your Own Rituals

Creating Your Own Rituals

I read an article a while ago in which Lisa Kudrow told the story of her son’s bar mitzvah. Her son, 16, went to the mall to buy a game. He met some men who asked if he was Jewish. He told them half, from his mother.“That’s good,”they said and asked if he had had a bar mitzvah. He hadn’t.…