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Film & TV With ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ series, Netflix squanders opportunity to teach viewers about … Jewish matchmaking
Religion and Judaism rarely come up on Netflix's Jewish Matchmaking, starring matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom. When it does, it is often not explained
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Opinion Please stop calling my Orthodox son’s marriage an ‘arranged marriage’
The community's matchmaking system may be foreign to liberal Jews, but not all such marriages are 'arranged'
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Culture Is pandemic dating making us all Orthodox?
It’s your first date. You’ve never met the other person, but they’ve been pre-screened and chosen for you, so you show up at the agreed-upon location, perhaps a park bench or hotel lobby. It’s daytime. You sit apart from each other, not close enough to touch or bump knees. Even though it’s the first date,…
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Community Is A Resume The Best Way To Land Your Perfect Spouse?
As wedding invitations poured into my family mailbox ahead of Passover, I couldn’t help but think about the reason all of these couples have been able to come together in the first place: the shidduch system. Prevalent in both Modern and ultra-Orthodox circles, the shidduch system is a process through which Jewish singles are introduced…
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Life ‘Shababnikim’: A Guide To Ultra-Orthodox Society
If you’ve spent any time in Jerusalem, you’ve seen these young men before. Sometimes, they appear in the Mamilla mall, ecstatic to be out on the town. You’ll see them on the public bus, or at a ‘mehadrin‘-kosher pizza shop, wearing identical black hats and holding the ubiquitous Israeli plastic bag. Finally, the Israeli TV…
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Life Single Orthodox Women Could Be Happy — If Only We’d Let Them
Ever since reviewing Ruth Whippman’s book, America the Anxious, I’m attuned to the concept of happiness, and to its centrality in American life. I thought of it most recently when reading Heather Havrilesky’s recent Ask Polly column, “Ask Polly: I’m Pretending I’m Happy Single, But I’m Not!” The letter-writer may look like a proud, independent…
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Culture JSwipe Right: Fall in Love With the Revolutionary Founder David Yarus
While the founder of JSwipe (which is often dubbed the Jewish Tinder) describes himself as a “post-affiliation” Jew, he’s accomplished what scores of religious rabbis and traditional grandparents could only dream of doing: He’s matchmade hundreds of Jewish marriages and thousands of Jewish relationships. David Yarus, 30, and his three co-founders, working night and day…
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