Connecting Online And Dating Jewish Singles

Young people existing in the Jewish singles dating world often have problems connecting with those whom they can date or even marry, while still being sure they are dating Jewish men or women whose world views and lifestyles are compatible with their own.

Most people probably don't realize that the idea of speed dating, now one of society's accepted ways to meet people, actually originated with Rabbi Yaacov Deyo in Berkeley, California, to help Jewish young people meet each other.

Now events such as these go together with online methods of connecting, such as dating services for young Jewish people.

It may seem surprising when you realize that a revolutionary dating method was invented for the sake of Orthodox Jewish singles, so they could find a match and marry someone of like mind.

While personals ads were regarded with raised eyebrows in the past, even for those with a less constrained lifestyle, speed dating seemed too unusual, as a way of finding and dating Jewish people.

Yet in a fast-paced world where people barely have time to meet anyone new on their own, and because cultural or spiritual values are no longer automatically known from the circles one travels in, new methods may be required for bringing people together.

Using online dating sites and speed dates might actually be considered a more modern version of the old methods of a Jewish matchmaker. Remember that a matchmaker, too, tried to match certain characteristics between potential partners.

Those might, at the time, have been more economic and utilitarian than criteria preferred today. But the more modern methods of dating Jewish people may simply be an adaptation of the older method, adding criteria of culture, values and personality traits as well.

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