Holidays and Remembrances: Around the Year With Esther

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Shabbat
Friday Night Lights (why Shabbat may not be a day of relaxation for Jewish singles)

Hanukkah and New Year’s Eve
What You Can’t Leave Behind (New Year’s resolutions and beyond)

Purim
Post-Purim Revelations (About masks, secret identities and intimacy, 2006)

Passover
Dating the Seder Way (following the “order” of dating, 2005)
Free to Be…(revisiting the concept of freedom before Passover, 2006) alternate link
Spring Cleaning, Relationship Style
(how spring cleaning for Passover relates to relationships and the single perspective, 2008)

Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur
Off the Record (Book of Life and repentance, 2007)
Courting Forgiveness (includes an “Al Chet”-style recitation of repentance for singles, 2004)
Talking Trash (a piece about using language carefully/gossip in the process of dating, 2004)
Homing In On Change (how vacation lends perspective, prompting a commitment to the concept of change with the coming new year)
Recommitment Ceremony (Rosh Hashanah as renewing our vows, 2006)

Sukkot
Inside the Singles Sukkah

Simchat Torah
Dances with Torahs (a glimpse into the Upper West Side social scene surrounding the Simchat Torah holiday)

Remembering the 2003 Blackout
Darkness Visible

More holiday titles to come!