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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News Hacking JDate to Find the Perfect Jewish Hubby
There’s no magic formula for love, as both the lovelorn and happily shacked up will tell you, but according to tech guru Amy Webb there is a formula for online dating. Webb, an Internet pioneer who runs her own digital strategy company, took her number-crunching skills to JDate and emerged with a husband. Frustrated with…
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Life Romance Is Not Dead — Yet
Recently, a series of major articles have raised the alarms on the demise of dating and marriage. Alex Williams’ New York Times piece “The End of Courtship” lamented the death of traditional, chivalrous dating, and Amy Webb’s Wall Street Journal story encouraged women to stretch the truth in their online dating profiles lest all the…
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Life Want To Attract a Guy on JDate?
Want to attract a Jewish guy online? Let’s start with the bad news: Don’t be accomplished, be aspirational. Don’t sound mature. Don’t talk too much. Don’t be tall. Don’t be fat. Don’t be funny, because you will come off sarcastic. Don’t mention work, or any professional accomplishments. And for the the good news: You CAN…
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Life ‘Teen Mom’ Looks for Love on JDate
The penultimate episode of MTV’s hit reality series “Teen Mom” aired this week. The show will be ending after four years, and the girls have gone from being small-town high school students to tabloid mainstays with new cars, houses and (in several cases) breasts. One of the four moms, Farrah Abraham, has since relocated from…
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Life Bar Refaeli Says ‘Lo’ to JDate
Bar Refaeli is a supermodel. She’s also Israeli. That means that questions about her Jewishness often come up in interviews. Even the lad mag “Maxim,” which named her their #1 hottest woman this week, comes off sounding like her mom when they inquire whether she’d consider setting up a profile on JDate. “Maybe if I’m…
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The Schmooze Mila Kunis On JDate?
Buck up, all you JDate and OKCupid browsers: Actress Mila Kunis, star of the Seth MacFarlane movie “Ted” and all-around bombshell, tells Glamour that she would be right there with you if she weren’t quite so well known. “I would go Internet dating instead of going out to bars,” Kunis told Glamour. “In two seconds…
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Life The Russian Match To Make Grandma Happy
On Valentine’s Day, the Russian Jewish community officially joined the ranks of JDate, ChristianMingle, BlackSingles and countless other dating sites tailored to specific ethnic groups by defining its own niche market within the larger Internet dating pool. RAJE On, an alumni association of the Russian American Jewish Experience partnered with JWed.com, the “largest Jewish dating…
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Life Prime Ribs: New ‘Yentl’ Tunes; Original ‘Occupier’
Keira Knightly talks about playing psychoanalysis pioneer, Jung patient and Holocaust victim Sabina Speilrein in the new film “A Dangerous Method.” Skeptical of JDate’s algorithm for picking Mr. or Mrs. right? Try “J sites,” the online Jewish dating service that has good old-fashioned matchmakers do the pairing. There is a new biography of original “occupier”…
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