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The Shtetl Goes Digital: Modern Yentas Turn to Facebook
Photo credit: athree23 | Pixabay.com. This past summer, Ronit Treatman read a wedding announcement in the New York Times about a successful match made at a bar mitzvah. Treatman, a 50-year-old Philadelphia native, has spent the last decade connecting the Jewish community, largely through several community forums she has built and managed on Facebook. Reading the…
Five Jewish Dating Sites Whose Names Don’t Rhyme With Day Jate
Though the Yelp-like app Lulu, which invites women to publicly review and rate men in a number of categories, has yet to be adapted to a Jewish version, we Jews have no shortage of creative ways to meet and mingle with the opposite gender using our smartphones. Everyone knows about (the many, many) classic Jewish…
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Click on That Profile
In our latest update of Bizarre Jewish Dating Ideas, today we bring you: TheJMom.com. Remember the good old days when Mama used to meddle in her children’s lives way too much, back before men and women were allowed to choose their own spouses? For reference, see Fiddler on the Roof. It worked so well there….