Tag: shidduch crisis
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Salad and healthy lifestyles are bad for the frum community
Dear Heshy, I loved your post yesterday about positive changes within the frum community. I find myself wondering why no one seems to focus…
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Jewish Life
Is it worse to be an older single or a childless couple?
People think that once you get married, the shunning stops, that suddenly you've finally arrived into the Jewish community as a full fledged member,…
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Dating & Marriage
10 Brutally Honest Things I’ve Learned My Year “In-Town”
Hey Heshy, Not particularly sure why I felt the need to write this; I guess the absurdity of PLLBR got me thinking. For context…
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Dating & Marriage
Whatever happened to the shidduch crisis?
They say that the shidduch crisis is only as bad as your personal life, they say that once you get married you begin to…
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Dating & Marriage
A Single girls perspective on the shidduch crisis and narrow mindedness
The Shidduch Crisis and the Tyranny of Narrow Mindedness: A Single Girls Perspective (but what the heck can I possibly know, I’m not married…)…
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Dating & Marriage
Shidduch Business
Guest post by Daniel Mainzer “There’s no business like Shoah business.” That was true for the past 60 years but times they are a…
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Yeshivish
Guide to the different crises of the frum community
I am sure that there have been many a crisis throughout the history of Jewish people, like the Golden Calf crisis and the Girls…
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Dating & Marriage
The myths and realities of “The Shidduch Crisis”
Guest Post by Rabbi Josh Yuter There are few topics in Jewish society which can simultaneously evoke rage, empathy, and unsolicited opinions and advice…
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Dating & Marriage
A girls guide to shadchan speak
A Girl’s Guide to Shadchan-Speak by Chaya Miriam Jurado Why should guys have all the fun? The following may or may not help you…
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Jewish Life
Fine you’re a matchmaker!
Fine, You’re a Matchmaker by Anshel M. My. G-d. What have I gotten myself into? Nervous as you can possibly imagine, I called this…
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Dating & Marriage
Top 10 reasons to go on a singles shabbaton
As a general rule, frum singles hate singles shabbatons, they go because one of their more open minded friends has asked them a billion…
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Dating & Marriage
The Heights and depths of dating
I love Washington Heights. It's where the urban grid of Manhattan hits reality, where streets are smacked into cliffs and valleys, with stepped streets,…
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Dating & Marriage
I hate the shidduch crisis
The Washington Post article (in which I was linked) has been creating quite a bit of buzz about the so called "shidduch crisis" lately…
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Jewish Life
What will the next frum community crisis be?
First we had the kids at risk crisis, then the bugs in the water crisis, then there were bugs in everything healthy, green and…
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Jewish Life
Washington Heights versus the Upper West Side
Whenever you talk to singles contemplating on moving out of their communities to a "singles community" you hear them debate about whether they want…
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Dating & Marriage
The official shidduch resume
When I first heard about shidduch resumes I was kind of shocked, I always figured that shidduchim should be made by people who knew…
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Dating & Marriage
Brave girl agrees to post her shidduch resume on Frum Satire
I put the call out on Facebook for anyone who wishes to post their real/fake/funny or otherwise serious shidduch profile on my site can…
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Dating & Marriage
The best and funniest video describing Shadchanim
I have been saying the same thing for years, I just don't know how to make videos - this is the best video describing…
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Jewish Life
Lashon Hara Sucks and Ruined My Friend’s Relationship
My friend got divorced about a year ago. Like many others I know who have gotten married due to communal pressure, the marriage was…
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Dating & Marriage
Do you want to get married enough to settle?
I have wondered if people would rather be without a partner or settle for one that is less than perfect (I know perfection is…
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Dating & Marriage
Does this exacerbate the shidduch crisis?
So I'm sitting at someone's house this last Shabbos and am told that my buddy and I couldn't eat there the next day because…
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Jewish Life
Heshy Fried admits that lettuce does have bugs
World famous blogger Heshy Fried has admitted that lettuce does in fact have bugs in it. The author of Frum Satire which seeks to…
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Dating & Marriage
Constipation caused the shidduch crisis