tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471778297786961472011-07-07T22:26:56.229-07:00Birthright Israel NEXT Atlanta is excited to be hosting our first couples retreat, "Shabbat Staycation" July 23-25, 2010. Welcome and enjoy!Birthright Israel NEXT, Atlantahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12731298066103481030noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347177829778696147.post-53063043719084386312010-07-23T09:26:00.000-07:002010-07-23T09:28:02.883-07:00

Eliana first spotted Justin in 10th grade. He was the NCSY president and a friend of hers roped her into doing an NCSY mail stuffing one night. It was instant crush for her, but she was a bit on the shy side and he never noticed her (Justin's note: only because she literally hid behind said friend the entire time). They had some mutual friends and would see each other at parties once in a

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From Darren: "Lana moved to Atlanta on Labor Day weekend last year (2009.) One night I was scrolling through jdate and I saw a picture of the most beautiful woman I had ever seen (yes, Lana.) Recognizing her home city of Toledo, Ohio and based on her screenname, I thought it had to be a friend of mine's sister. So I emailed my friend and asked her if it was indeed her sister on jdate who

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Julie & Yasha were married June 23, 2010. Yasha describes how they met below:Julie and I met at a bar / restaurant that our friend Renee had invited both of us to for dinner and a football game. Since I am not a big fan of football I really didn’t care for the game, Julie was unfortunately not really in to me, so the entire evening we sat around the table with our friends Julie talking to

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Michael and Amy first met in 2005 when Michael saw Amy dancing on a table at his AEPi formal. His first thought was “Wow, this girl definitely does not go to Ga Tech.” It was a year later that Michael and Amy met again while after she returned from studying in Israel. They began hanging out in 2006 but since Amy lived in Athens it was hard for them to see each other often so they remained

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Peter and Missy have been married for over a year and a half. When they met is debatable-- some say a Mommy and Me class at the JCC in Augusta, while others claim it was at a Lamaze class pre-birth. Needless to say, these two have known each other quite some time. However, they never dated until after college when Missy moved back to Atlanta from the Mississippi Delta and Peter was in law

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Margaret & Andrew met in 2001 when they lived across the hall from each other in the dorms at Reed College. Although Andrew is originally from Detroit and Margaret is from Los Angeles, they decided to make a big move together when they relocated from their college home of Oregon to Georgia, so Margaret could begin graduate school at Emory. They were married in 2007 and live in Decatur with their

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Shahar and I met while both living in Washington D.C. in 2005. One of Shahar's closest friends was in visiting who had gone to high school with my upstairs' neighbor. My neighbor convinced me to go out with her while she re-met her old high school friend whom she had not seen for years. I agreed and met Shahar over dinner with the group. We dated for 5 months before both quitting our jobs and

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[Written by Bennie, Cobi picked out the picture]My Great Aunt Gladys set up the meeting between Cobi and I. Cobi got my number after wrestling it away from my aunt at a JNF meeting. She smelled new meat from a state away and had to meet this new hunk moving to Atlanta. A few meetings were set up between the both of us because Cobi knows everyone. I asked Cobi if she would like to work for me

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Yoni and Eliana are both from Atlanta, and they met when they were 9 years old. Yoni came to Eliana's elementary school in the 3rd grade, and they were in school together through 12th grade. They were best friends growing up and were high school sweethearts! They took a bit of a hiatus during their first years of college, she went to University of Maryland and he went to Yeshiva University, but

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Tal & Jenna met the day before school started, her freshman year of college at the University of Texas in Austin. Jenna’s suitemates, who she had just met, invited her to go across the street to visit some friends of theirs from home. After much convincing, Jenna went and ended up talking to Tal all night. After a year of friendship, they began dating and have been together ever since. Tal

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Jon and Becca were walking through Lenox Park one day, when they passed by each other while working out. Jon happened to be on the phone, so they couldn’t talk, but they smiled and waved to each other. Jon wanted to turn around and talk to her, but she was gone at that point. A few days later, they happened to be at the same party at Shout, to which Becca thought Jon looked familiar, and

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Tanya writes, "Michael and I met in the summer of 2008 through mutual friends. He had moved to Atlanta from Washington DC a few months earlier and was playing JCC Flag Football. I often attended games since my sister-in-law and several friends also played. We were introduced and saw each other at various events, the rest is history."

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Jon and Emily met in December 2002 when, fortuitously, their respective parents booked the same “Jew Cruise” vacation during the holiday season. On the first day of the cruise, Emily and Jon met in one of the ship’s many hot tubs, talked for several hours (to the point of severe finger pruning) and were inseparable for the remainder of the week.Despite their instant connection on the calm

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Thank you for visiting the official blog for Birthright Israel NEXT Atlanta's first couples retreat: "Shabbat Staycation".Looking for more details about the event? We will be posting the weekend's agenda here as well additional opportunities for the group to get to know each other before the end of July. In the meantime, here's a little more info about the event and don't forget to RSVP!On July

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