On Tuesday, May 5, the Forward hosted a virtual conversation on “Coupling in quarantine: distant dating and close cohabiting. ” Abby Sher, co-writer of the Forward’s Bintel Brief advice column, moderated a conversation including David Yarus, founder of JSwipe, the largest Jewish dating app; Rayna Greenberg, social influencer and podcast co-host of ‘Girls Gotta Eat’;…
“Stronger than your bubbe’s horseradish on Passover.” “Thicc as your bubbe’s matzah balls.” “Your bubbe’s wet dream.” You might think that this combination of sex and yiddishkeit belongs nowhere except the pages of a Phillip Roth novel. But it’s actually a huge part of love in the time of corona, at least for the Jews….
It was a Sunday morning, the third or fourth time I slept over. I woke up to the feeling of his hands running through my hair, like a novice hairdresser procrastinating making the first cut. “Hey,” he whispered. “Ggghhh” I mumbled. “Can I ask you something?” He sounded nervous. I opened my eyes and saw…
“F—k you, c—t,” a man emailed me in response to an article I wrote about dating. “I hope you get over 30 very soon, lose your mediocre looks, and end up a childless feminist cat lady cause you don’t deserve to replicate and Am Yisrael and all humanity will be better off without your kind.”…
Recently, I found myself on a date with someone I was sure was Jewish. We were in New York, and he had brown hair and the first name of a biblical hero — what was I supposed to do, ask to see his foreskin? He was not Jewish, as it turned out. And on our…
As a 27 year old, single Orthodox woman living on the Upper West Side, dating is a huge part of my life. As a result, I post a lot of questions and polls on my Instagram stories about dating, mostly because I’ve noticed that my peers have interesting and insightful things to say about dating,…
Marc Guss is a businessman. He lives on the Upper East Side, with his wife and their Shih Tzu Bichon, Belle. And he’s sick and tired of men on dating sites. “The clientele,” he says. “They’re just not there. I was floored to see the disrespect and apathy.” There are always more women than men,…
Bari Weiss, the New York Times columnist famous for being a Jewish woman who does not want any more rights than she currently has, dated Saturday Night Live comedian Kate McKinnon when they were both undergraduates at Columbia University. The provocative writer said in a Vanity Fair profile what had only been previously rumored —…
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