True confessions of an online dating addict #10: Dating more than one person at a time

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

True confessions of an online dating addict #7: Not your typical Jewish parents

By Amy Klein

They only want the best for me.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

True confessions of an online dating addict #6: Nice guys finish last

By Amy Klein

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

True confessions of an online dating addict #5: Shopping for a new date

By Amy Klein

There's nothing better than coming home from a bad date and shopping for someone else.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

True confessions of an online dating addict #4: Ben sounds cool and he lives nearby

By Amy Klein

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

True confessions of an online dating addict #3: ‘I will not flake this time around’

By Amy Klein

1. Return all emails. 2. Return phone calls 3. Follow up on all the guys I contacted . . .

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

True confessions of an online dating addict #2

By Amy Klein

Our heroine decides she has no choice but to return to online dating . . .

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

True confessions of an online dating addict #1

By Amy Klein

Amy Klein's 'confessions,' in graphic novel format. Illustrated by Amber Shields

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Go ahead, gogle me

By Orit Arfa

If someone's life is not worth at least one page of Google search results, does that mean he hasn't accomplished or written anything of enough import to be broadcast online?

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Dating today is a menage a tech

By Marilyn Anderson

No more. The world has changed and so has dating. Today, when we date someone, it's no longer just the two of us. No. Now, it's always a threesome: you, him and that all-intrusive technology. It's what I call a "Menage a Tech."

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Dating dramas

By Orit Arfa

I don't allow myself to become vulnerable. I don't honestly share my likes and dislikes, my strengths and insecurities. I worry too much about what the guy wants to hear rather than what I truly want to say.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

VIDEO: toasteroven416’s JDate diary—Richard

By The Web Guy

Her YouTube bio says she's 36 and lives in Canada, fellas. You too can be a diary entry!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Getting ‘serious’ is no joke

By Rachel Heller

Some relationships progress naturally and quickly. Others reach a certain point and plateau. Still others are forcibly stunted by the desire -- however long it lasts -- to keep things casual.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

With this list, I thee wed

By Amy Klein

The psychic told her to write down a list of 100 qualities she wanted in a man, even down to his socks, and to put that list away somewhere.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Gays get married and I’m still single

By Amy Klein

Maybe gay marriage is just what the world needs to make weddings sane.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Under-40s reshape Jewish engagement, report finds

By Sue Fishkoff

A new report lends muscle to certain aspects of the phenomenon, hinted at by Katznelson: Young Jews' desire to be with other young Jews and their interest in creating their own Jewish experiences rather than signing up for long-standing programs.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

She’s a mensch

By Carin Davis

In Hebrew, female nouns tend to end in "h" or "t," so what about menschah or menschat? We could stay Yiddish and call ourselves menschke or menschilah. There's also the French menschette, the Spanish menschita or the Jewish American menschess.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

The figurative father

By Lori Gottlieb

Every year, as the third Sunday in June approaches, it happens: along with the ads for neckties and iPods come the endless conversations on single-mom blogs
and parenting sites about what to do on Father's Day with kids like mine who don't have fathers.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

The dress, the ring, the registry and the rest

By Teresa Strasser

This moment that is supposed to be about eternal union is more about capturing eternal beauty in a photo that's going to be mounted in the living room so everyone can silently think, "Man, she used to be a lot thinner."

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Sex and the column

By Orit Arfa

We passed the time examining everyone's shoes and chatting witha 50-year-old mother of five kids who'd brought her 18-year-old daughter to see the movie

Thursday, May 29, 2008

10 dating tips for men

By Orit Arfa

Invest in her interests, but sincerely. There is nothing more attractive than a man who gets to know the heart of a woman by investigating what is important to her

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Don’t panic!

By Esther D. Kustanowitz

Keep on looking, says Esther

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Sabra love

By Orit Arfa

I've been considering giving up on Israeli men, at least the purebred Israeli men, the sabras. What's painful is that I say this as someone who has made my home in Jerusalem, and I am hesitant to make harsh generalizations about Israeli bachelors, especially as Israel celebrates its 60th.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Status symbol

By Esther D. Kustanowitz

Status used to be about social hierarchy -- whether you made a good living or were born into the right family or had achieved prominence in your community. But these days, if you say the word "status" to Generation Single-and-Facebooking, you may be understood very differently

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Honey, you’re home!

By Rachel Heller

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Student gets into good university. Student obtains esteemed degree. Graduate flounders in unsteady job market; must confront the dreaded possibility of moving back in with her parents, Ima and Abba, whom I dearly love -- and come college, was all too ready to leave.