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Moms do the choosing with new Jewish dating app

JL;DR SUMMARY Jeffrey Kaplan, motivated by his mother's humorous yet earnest efforts to find his brother a match on JDate, created JustKibbitz, a dating app that allows Jewish mothers to facilitate romantic connections for their children. 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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Online DatingMillennialsMatchmakingJewish DatingShidduchJewish MothersJustkibbitzDating AppParental InvolvementJeffrey Kaplan

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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
"But to Kaplan, an entrepreneur based in Asheville, N.C., it was also an example of an unarticulated need, an economic term that describes a consumers desire for a product that doesnt yet exist."

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