Meet the cast of THE WAGAMAMA BRIDE—left to right: The bride’s parents Adrianne Lebensbaum, Carol Grunberg, Liane Wakabayashi, Akihiko and his parents Toshihiko and Hiroko Wakabayashi. Here on wedding day at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, April 7, 1991.

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Sayonara Fritz Jacobi

Fritz Jacobi, who was always great at calling a scoop when he saw one, missed out on the best scoop of his life. The title

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Coming of Age in Jerusalem

Since moving to Israel, I’ve been working toward completion of a memoir about my transformational marriage and family life in Japan. That was when I

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What the Go-Betweens Know

Marriage go-betweens traditionally offered advice — not rubber stamping. I regret that I didn’t do more to ask for advice. Our Go-between was largely ceremonial

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Moving Forward with my Mother

Yesterday I found it quite distressing the shedding of the leaves on this small lemon bush –a tragedy I thought. Today I see heaven’s hand in all

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Farewell to the Mother of the Bride

My mother Adrianne Lebensbaum’s  lifelong habit of voracious reading gave weight to her astute comments about everything I’ve ever written. The Wagamama Bride’s progress —

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A Wagamama Menu

I swear, with all my heart, that I did not name my memoir after London’s wildly successful Japanese noodle restaurant chain by the same name.

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Mother of the Bride

Why is it that those last steps to the mountain summit are always the hardest? It’s the point you want to give up and turn

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