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How Jews Date in the Modern World (Re-Release)

JL;DR SUMMARY With the Jewish holiday of love, Tu B'Av, approaching, this episode re-explores Jewish dating practices across various communities, such as Chassidic, Yeshiva Orthodox, and Modern Orthodox. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Modern OrthodoxDating AppsShidduch CrisisChassidic CommunityJewish DatingCultural NormsCommunity ValuesTu B'avYeshiva OrthodoxInterpersonal Compatibility

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New York, United States
"You now have all of these profiles now it's deliberate I assume that you are not able a single person is not able to browse profiles on their own correct so on this system on sayu it's a nice platform it's not that like you said the singles themselves cannot browse through the profiles the way it was started a long long time ago before why you connects as I said was through matchmaking facilitators shadhanim who are supposed to use the algorithms yeah match up people based on some of the algorithms and not just the algorithms then they're supposed to read it more carefully when they have choices of who could be matched up do you regret that choice that you can't do you get requests for people who's like I just want to be able to look at like yes we do get those requests we 100 get those requests I would say every so often we get those requests where can I just look and I'll tell you who's good for me unfortunately with this system we answer them that there's other apps for that the soyotis does not have that ability but I do think it's a good feature because sometimes people do say you know what I know yeah who I could be matched up"
Shtulim, Southern District, Israel
"Lior comes from a masora tea background I mean he came from like a traditional like in America wouldn't be called Orthodox but it's not another domination only exists in Israel almost like his family exists in Israel they're from a moshav called Shtulim which is like 15 minutes from Gaza it's close to like ashton area and yeah exactly it only exists in Israel they would consider themselves religious but in our Orthodox world we would not call it religious where we come from and we wouldn't call it show more shabbos for sure in that home right but they do keep the shabbos in their own sense his family and kashrut as well but again not in the modern Orthodox traditional sense and they're deeply Jewish deeply"
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
"And it's kind of dovetailing on the experience you had which is that like you have the situation where the guys know each other like you knew a lot of guys wasn't foreboding for you to talk to a guy or even like text a lot I'm sure you knew guys but there's something that is like a block to the actual romantic date and I'm still not sure what that is but what you're describing I did start to feel a few years into the West Side feeling a little bit stuck you know it centers around shabbos meals shabbos you're inviting the same girls the same guys you all know each other you might have gone out on you know a few dates with a few of them and you're like oh my"
Israel
"Yeshivot or right-wing modern Orthodox not right-wing modern Orthodox we'll get to that on its own but the world of the yeshiva world and how they date now one of the big difficulties is really figuring out what the distinction between the way the yeshiva world dates and the way the right-wing modern Orthodox dates they're very similar in a lot of ways they both have shadchanim they're both mediated usually through some more through family and friends the yeshiva world more through kind of profession shadchanim but the system is more or less the same they might go out for a little bit later and what I wanted to begin with is a term that colors so much of the yeshiva dating world and that is the notion of a shidduch crisis this is definitely something that I remember hearing when I was studying in yeshivas near Israel of the question of are there enough kind of men and women in this community to even get married to one another and there is a study that just dropped by researchers who I happen to have a wonderful relationship with the study which was published in the journal for the scientific study of religion and is entitled examining average age at first marriage within Orthodox Judaism a large community-based study really tried to explore is there a shidduch crisis"

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