EDITOR’S NOTE BY LARRY GORDON
It’s A Celebration “Celebration.” That has to be one of the happiest words in the English language. Who doesn’t like a celebration or an event or occasion to celebrate? And this is particularly so in these challenging times. At the same time, as the seasons change and the weather changes, it seems that somehow we are more geared up and ready to share good news and help family, friends, and neighbors by participating in and enhancing their simchos and special events. Who hasn’t been bedazzled or even enchanted at some point in their life by the idea of a June wedding? Today the parameters of our imaginations have been stretched with the notion that any time of year is indeed an appropriate one to enjoy and take part in one of these great events. In a way, the seasons
have been dispensed with, and now any time of year seems exactly like the right time for a celebration, whether it’s a wedding, a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, or related life-cycle events. And so it is that as summer approached, it seemed like precisely the right time to assemble this magazine to serve as a guide on the subject of the simchas we make, attend, and play a vital role in. And along with some wonderfully insightful articles that look at our happiest occasions from a variety of angles, we also feature some advertisements from the leaders in the simcha industry. I hope you enjoy this supplement of the Five Towns Jewish Times and that you agree that it is always a good time for a celebration.
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5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES SIMCHA SUPPLEMENT
June 11, 2010
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