JDate Success: Jewish Online Dating

There you are again, people watching at the local coffee shop. And there they are, couples walking hand in hand, brandishing wedding rings. Okay, so maybe they're not brandishing the rings per se, but they might as well be. How do people do it? How do they meet their one-and-only? I'll tell you a little secret: online! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, in a world where everything is just a mouse-click away, so are our spouses. Spend a day at the virtual mall. Fill your shopping cart with books and CDs at amazon.com, head over to Home Depot for a light fixture, and then move along to one of the trillion matchmaking sites for a date. Now I'm not saying that people can't get dates the old fashioned way, but online dating does offer an alternative.

Though I do have friends whose success stories are based upon match.com and eharmony, JDate is what did it for me. The one caviat in using JDate? You have to be Jewish. Reform, Conservative, Conservadox, Orthodox, Culturally Jewish. Take your pick. You can sign up for any or all as your preference. You can even check the "will discuss later" box...though I do warn against treating this as a trivial piece of information when reading someone's profile. Here's a shout out to the Messianic Jew who tried to convert me...another story for another time.