{"id":12550,"date":"2015-05-15T00:02:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T07:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=12550"},"modified":"2015-05-15T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T22:31:40","slug":"finding-love-in-the-jwb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2015\/05\/15\/finding-love-in-the-jwb\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding love in the JWB \u2013 on the occasion of the JI&#8217;s 85th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A singles ad placed in the\u00a0<em>Bulletin<\/em>\u00a0by father-son team Ron and Steve Freedman in 1992 led to the engagement (in 1997) of their son\/brother David to Betty-Mae Coblenz, who were married in 1998.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/may-15-David-Freedman.15.singles-ad-June-1992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/may-15-David-Freedman.15.singles-ad-June-1992-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"image - scan from paper The Bulletin by father-son team Ron and Steve Freedman in 1992 .\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/may-15-David-Freedman.15.singles-ad-June-1992-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/may-15-David-Freedman.15.singles-ad-June-1992-87x150.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/may-15-David-Freedman.15.singles-ad-June-1992.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a>Ron Freedman, who passed away in December 2014, worked for the <em>Jewish Western Bulletin \/ Jewish Independent<\/em> for 46 years. As we mourned his loss with his family at a ceremony celebrating his life, his son David shared the story of how his father and his brother Steve, who has worked at the paper for more than 30 years, used the power of community media to change his life.<\/p>\n<p>As Alex Kliner explained in his May 15, 1998, Menschenings column:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Freedman was baffled. Three young women had responded to his personals column ad in the Jewish Western Bulletin. But wait! He had never placed an ad. But whatta ya\u2019 gonna do? His curiosity was aroused. So he agreed to meet Betty-Mae Coblenz for coffee. They talked for hours. Not long ago, Betty-Mae Coblenz became Betty-Mae Freedman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the mysterious ad? It seems David\u2019s dad, Ron, and brother, Steve, (both <em>JWB<\/em> staffers) had placed it in the personals under David\u2019s name. It was a joke! Not a bad joke, eh? And what\u2019s more, it obviously pays to advertise in the <em>JWB<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A singles ad placed in the\u00a0Bulletin\u00a0by father-son team Ron and Steve Freedman in 1992 led to the engagement (in 1997) of their son\/brother David to Betty-Mae Coblenz, who were married in 1998. Ron Freedman, who passed away in December 2014, worked for the Jewish Western Bulletin \/ Jewish Independent for 46 years. As we mourned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3765,3764,3763,129,131,3766,2874,3762],"class_list":["post-12550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-ji","tag-aldex-kliner","tag-betty-mae-coblenz","tag-david-freedman","tag-jewish-western-bulletin","tag-jwb","tag-menschenings","tag-ron-freedman","tag-steve-freedman"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}