Announcing the “wear your heart on your sleeve” campaign at the Salute to Israel parade in New York City on June 6th. There will be about 100,000 people at the parade. This project’s goal is to see if we can better enable those attending to identify and help each other, perhaps creating one of the largest events of chesed!
Visit ParadeOfHearts.org for details.
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Shabot6000: “I don’t compute on Shabbat.”
Jesusbot: “Well, then your site will remain vandalized until Sunday!”
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Just in time for March Madness bangitout.com has released the Ultimate Shidduch Dating Tournament Guide.
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Last week at Ohel Nehama, a synogogue in Talbieh, Jerusalem, there was a discussion entitled, “Between him and her: Before marriage in religious society – danger or opportunity.” Unfortunately, I was unable to make it, but I understand that the discussion for the most part centered around premarital sex. There are articles on the Jerusalem Post, and Haaretz websites about this event.
Numerous comments on the articles suggest that many would prefer to either deny this issue is relevant or existent, or to attack Modern Orthodoxy. This reminds me of friends who were called an apikorais by a Rabbi in yeshivah for asking a question, after they were invited to ask anything they wanted. I’m sure everyone will agree that the key to a successful relationship and marriage is being able to discuss with your partner any issue openly. Perhaps this idea of being able to avoid legitimate issues, or even deny and sweep them under the carpet is yet another contributing factor to why so many are single today. People are subconsciously taught that they can run away from problems and they don’t have to address them.
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A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Orthodox Caucus plenum. The meeting outlined a recap of the organization’s goals and what was on the agenda for the future, but the evening, overall, turned out to be an exercise in collaboration to help come up with a plan to create more effective events for Jewish singles. In attendance were representatives from several major Orthodox singles sites, including BangItOut.com, Frumsky.com (my site!), SawYouAtSinai.com, Frumster.com, and EndTheMadness.org, among others.
After an introduction about the Orthodox Caucus, a panel of about five speakers each gave a short summary of who they were, the project they work on, and how they can contribute to help. Devorah Rose Kigel, of Sasson V’ Simcha, spoke of the importance of having properly trained shadchanim, as did Liaura Zacharie who similarly felt that shadchanim should be certified. Dr. Jeffrey Woolf of Bar Ilan University explained that the singles crisis of today is not a new thing, and that we can (and should) learn from what history has taught us. The two panelists that really stood out, however, were Alon Krausz and Isaac Galena.
Alon is the founder of JewishTypes.org which matches people by personality type. His presentation focused on how to identify your personality type and the personality type you are attracted to. Alon suggested that people who do matchmaking should take personality types into account, and proceeded to explain how it not only plays a part in your relationship with your mate but also how it impacts your children as well.
Isaac Galena of BangItOut.com, on the other hand, stood up at the podium and just let it fly. He stood there explaining who the people in his neighborhood are, why no one will go to a ‘singles’ event, and how young Jews on the Upper West Side aren’t looking to be married as much as they are looking to be happy. He gave detailed instruction as to how to create, present, and market a successful ‘singles’ event.
It leaves me wondering what the next step is. Time will tell if the folks in that room can really cooperate properly and work together to provide a major effort devoted to helping singles.
Thoughts from the peanut gallery?
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For those worried about properly handling shaimos … Fear not! Your prayers have been answered! Now you can purchase a Shaimos Box! Just fill it with your shaimos lug it to the post office, pay for shipping and off it goes! What could be easier!?
(…I guess this is marketed to those whose post office is closer than their local synogogue.)
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Just in time for the Siyum HaShas!!! For all the folks who weren’t able to keep up with the daily daf why not spoonfeed it into your ears and be ready for the next go around?! This begs the question, of course, “If you bought one of these tchatchkes, are you allowed to erase it?” “Do you have to bury it when the battery dies?” Taiku!
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