{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Stories Of Hope With Tzipora Grodko ","title":"She Had No Idea What Her Future Husband Was Going Through… Then They Met","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3563,"description":"On this week's Stories of Hope, a woman who spent years being told by shadchanim she didn't fit the mold sits down with a man who rebuilt his life from scratch after a divorce left him raising seven children alone. Ali and Natan's paths could not have looked more different, one moving toward Orthodoxy through a bar in Jerusalem, the other moving through it and out the other side of a small religious community that made it clear divorced people weren't welcome to stay. What brought them together was a J-Swipe match neither of them expected to lead anywhere.\n\nThis is a conversation about the parts of the frum world that don't get talked about enough, the loneliness, the pressure to fit a mold, and what it actually takes to build a family after everything falls apart. Ali and Natan get honest about blending nine kids, the terror of a first marriage with zero warning, and the moment a shopping cart full of unfamiliar groceries made it all feel real. Their story doesn't wrap up neatly, and that's exactly the point.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Gq64TzXSJt8dLepa7sDMjNO9jwB_8ROE29QF-nP27_4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zODI3/OWMzODdjZTRhNGEx/OGY2ZDQxNDUwMzMz/ODMyMC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}