Welcome to the Forward‘s coverage of the Jewish dating app JDate.
Welcome to the Forward‘s coverage of the Jewish dating app JDate.
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Opinion Handing Over the JDate Keys to My Mom
‘I have a good feeling about this,” my mother says. Which is refreshing to hear, since we are talking about my dating life, and most conversations about my dating life just turn into nonsensical debates over why the heck I’m still single — with an added serving spoon of Jewish guilt for me to do…
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Opinion JDate Works for Profit — and the Continuity of the Jewish People
As a businessperson who manages for-profit companies, I spend much of my time evaluating the merits of future projects based on their capacity to generate return on investment. A year ago I was invited — unrelated to my day job — to give a Jewish TED-style talk analyzing a company with which I have no…
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Breaking News JDate Billboards Yanked After French Vandalism
A French billboard advertiser scaled back a campaign for the Jewish dating site JDate after its billboards were vandalized. Thierry Courrault, a regional director for the JC Decaux billboard giant, said his company decided to pull 18 billboards out of 100 advertising JDate and which carried the site’s Star of David-shaped logo. The reason was…
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Breaking News Jewish Singles Cheat Less Than Christian Counterparts, Study Says
Chivalry is alive and well — among Jewish singles that is. A new survey released by JDate.com and Christian Mingleanalyzes the patterns and behavior of the two major dating communities, including dating etiquette, social and familial influences on relationships and attitudes towards infidelity. Eighty-four percent of Jewish respondents reported that they have never cheated in…
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The Schmooze How About A Nice Jewish Guy For Your Wall?
(JTA) — Don’t confuse them with the “Hottest Rabbis” of 2013, for which the Jewrotica website is currently soliciting nominations. No, these are the “Nice Jewish Guys” of 2014: the stars of a glossy wall calendar produced in partnership with JDate, just in time for Thanksgivukkah. This year’s gentlemen include Roe (shown caressing a braided…
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Life Nailing the ‘Hebrew Hammer’
Last week, the New York Observer published a cover story on Logan, a 30-year-old Orthodox fourth-year medical student with “boyish” good looks. He’s searching for his bashert and describes himself “as a mensch at heart.” Sounds like a catch, right? Well, before you beat a trail to his probably adorable Upper West Side bachelor pad…
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Life The List
When I was growing up in Baltimore, my family used to gather together every week to read a column in a local publication about weddings and relationships. We often found them very silly. My favorite one was the story of a woman who had composed a list of 95 things she wanted in a husband,…
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Life Cupid in a Kippah
On Valentine’s Day, one is absolutely the loneliest number. It helps if you can make plans with some single friends, but most people would prefer to be out with their perfect person. Valentine’s Day isn’t our holiday, religiously speaking — Jews have Tu B’Av — but it is an American holiday, and Valentine’s Day nicely…
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