Is it possible to find your bashert on a dating app?
Bintel advises a student who wants to date Jewish, but isn't having any luck swiping
Bintel advises a student who wants to date Jewish, but isn't having any luck swiping
A compilation of dating profiles featuring the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe has gone viral
Watching Netflix’s “The Tinder Swindler,” about an accomplished Israeli conman and the victims who exposed him, I couldn’t stop thinking of TikTok’s most-maligned and unremarkable f-boy, West Elm Caleb. On paper, the titular swindler, a felon named Shimon Hayut, and W.E.C, a tall, mustachioed New York furniture designer who is bad at online dating, seem…
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,…
A British student has been suspended following complaints that one of his Tinder profile pictures featured a sleeping Jewish man. The picture, taken on London’s “Tube” subway system, features the student making the “hang loose” gesture with his one hand while leaning over toward a sleeping Orthodox man. In the picture, a small Palestinian flag…
Bumble is swiping left on Tinder. The dating app that allows women to make the first move is lashing back at Tinder after its rival sued it for allegedly stealing trade secrets. Before suing, Tinder tried to buy Bumble, but the latter’s CEO and founder, Whitney Wolfe Herd, rejected the offer out of hand. “We…
It’s LinkedIn meets Tinder. New Israeli app Workey, based in Tel Aviv, is an app that connects job-seekers with recruiters, using the same model as a dating app. When you register, a chatbot asks a series of questions about your job and professional aspirations, and asks you to upload your resume or connect the app…
Ayal Belling was tired of Tinder — sick of the swipes and sick of the superficiality of the photos-only game. So this Jerusalem-born Cape Town resident decided to create his own swiping dating app — a program that studies users’ social profiles, and forces users to be honest. Predict Dating App first scans your Facebook…
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