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Above: Adrienne .Kane Kanter and Jerry Kanter

Right: Ellen Goldman and Peter Rosen

One year after a singles dance,
at least four attendees have tied the knot.

JULIE WIENER
Staff Writer

N

one of them were regulars
at singles events but — on
a whim — they happened
to show up at a Yom Kip-
pur break-the-fast dance at Beth Abra-
ham Hillel Moses.
Within a year from the Oct. 11,
1997, mixer, sponsored by Jewish Pro-
fessional Singles and attended by
approximately 100 people, all four of
them will be married.
Ellen Goldman met her fiance,
Peter Rosen, just before she was about
to ditch the dance to see a movie with
a friend.

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1998

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"Then 'Love Shack' came on and I
had to dance to it," she said. "I
walked very briskly across the room
to someone I knew to see if he'd
dance, but as I was going, Peter was
crossing and we literally bumped
into one another. I asked him if he
would take pity upon my poor soul
and dance with me, and he said, 'Oh
no, will you take pity upon me and
dance with me?'"
Goldman, creator of a line of greet-
ing cards for cancer survivors, and
Rosen, a salesman of battery backup
systems, were instantly taken with
each other. Several months later, when
Rosen was offered a promotion in the
New York area, he proposed to Gold-

man and they moved to the East
Coast together. They will wed at Tern-
ple Emanu-El on the anniversary of
their dance floor encounter.
"We just have a riot together,"
explained Goldman, who loves her
new life in New York. "We tell people
we have too much fun."
Adrienne Ka.ne and Jerry Kanter
also met on the break-the-fast dance
floor, but to a slower tune: "May I
Have This Dance For the Rest of My
Life?"
"We immediately liked one anoth-
er," said Kane Kanter, a psychiatric
social worker. "And there were so
many coincidences!"
Among the commonalities: both

had been married once before (in
October) and both had three adult
children. Plus, October had always
been Kane Kanter's "lucky month,"
and just before she met Kanter, a sci-
entist at Warner Lambert in Ann
Arbor, she'd been visiting a niece with
the last name Canter.
The two share a passion for danc-
ing, enjoy going on nature walks and
are keen stock market observers. They
married last month at Temple Israel
and plan to retire in the coming
months.
So, for those wanna-be-marrieds
jaded by singles events, let this be a
lesson to you: get out on the dance
floor!

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