
Friendship, Dating & Marriage in a Charged Political World
About twelve years ago, an MJE participant, a die-hard upper West Side single—with whom I had become close and who had finally gotten engaged—got up to speak at his Aufruf, the celebration of Shabbat before his wedding. He told the large crowd that Shabbat morning: “My wedding tomorrow is nothing short of a miracle because from a pure statistical point of view, the chances I could find a wife were almost impossible”. He then went on to share his brilliant statistical analysi