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Jack and
Elaine Barbash
children. He wasn’t.”
In that year, everything changed.

“I was attracted to him as a camper,
but it was in the year that we wrote to each
other that I began to really value who he
was and what he believed,” she wrote. “I
was attracted not only to his looks, but to
his character.”
They were married at the Oxford Cir-
cle Jewish Community Center and now,
50 years later — and with five children
and 30 grandchildren — they travel to-
gether and commemorate their love,
though not always with flashy anniversary
celebrations. “We usually don’t do anything partic-
ularly special for our anniversary,” she
said. “Fortunately, we have a good life and
don’t feel the need to mark a special day
because truthfully, pretty much every day
is a good day.”
For Rona Michelson, a marriage and family
therapist in addition to a tour guide, the secret to
their 50 years of happiness, as well as a happy, long marriage in gen-
eral, has to do with several attributes.

“Mutual respect, shared values, a good sense of humor and stub-
bornness,” she said, “so that even when difficult times come along,
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even if the individuals are not at that point
feeling loved and supported.”
After 65 years, you can still hear the
love between Jack and Elaine Barbash,
who live in Northeast Philadelphia and
celebrated their milestone wedding an-
niversary on March 18.

The two met on a blind date after
Elaine’s cousin gave Jack her number, and
the rest is history.

While they don’t remember where ex-
actly they went, Elaine recalled that “when
he walked in, I knew he was the one be-
cause he was dressed so meticulously.”
“And from that minute on, we were,
you know, we went together,” Elaine said.

For them, a key ingredient to a long, hap-
py marriage is teamwork and looking out
for each other, whether it’s getting each other
somewhere they need to go or the fact that
when Jack gets up for ice cream, he always
asks Elaine if she wants some, too.

It’s also the little things, like when
they’re out taking a walk and 97-year-old Jack, a
World War II veteran, proudly points Elaine out
to a stranger: “See that woman there? We’re married 65 years!”
As with all marriages, they have their ups and downs, but they
don’t let that deter them.

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