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This week:
and My Jesus YearDumbfounded
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Benyamin Cohen
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  • 12/08:
    Seth Greenland

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JDater of the Week

A weekly look at who's finding love online
Izzy Grinspan

Did you know that JDate offers bulk rates to rabbis who want to sign up their entire congregations wholesale? And that some rabbis are paying out of pocket to get their flocks hitched? JDate is seriously the greatest racket in the history of the Internet.

Just because HaShem seems to think you’re wasting your time on Nerve, though, doesn’t mean that JDate isn’t fraught with peril. Look at the Good Samaritan who calls himself Portnoy4U (which, as unappealing literary characters go, is pretty much the male equivalent of a woman calling herself LilLadyMacbeth) and whose “What I’m Looking For” essay contained the following aside:

“IF YOU NEVER SAY ONE WORD TO ME IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, STILL HEED THESE NEXT PEARLS OF WISDOM!!!! UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU EVER GO TO THE MATZOH BALL IN BOCA RATON!!!! DON'T DO IT.”

Or the lady whose terse profile said only “looking for someone special to spend my time with, please have hair on ur head.”

My winner this week, though, is the GUY WHO VOLUNTEERED. BullofBudapest, seriously, you’re my hero. Not only did you e-mail me specifically requesting to be featured in this column, which shows megaballs, but your profile is approximately 3000 words long. I’m excerpting my favorite part, but ladies, you kind of have to read the whole thing:

With Holocaust survivor parents I KNOW Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Hence, I love to party, dance (wild/dirty, imagining I'm Black, to slow/soft taking long, tight dips), get into heavy discussions & light flirtations, make passionate love (any other kind?), humble the arrogant, fight the "good fight"(charge windmills), challenge the smug; solitude, silence, spiritiuality, nature, current affairs, NPR, Air Amerika; high-volume stereo singing along with Orbison, CCR, Rait, Motown, James Taylor, The Eagles; and seeking to understand my God.

Previously: Jerry Seinfeld Meets James Bond



Izzy Grinspan

Izzy Grinspan is Jewcy's ex-managing editor. Her work has been published in Salon, The Believer, and The Village Voice.


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rebecca


I can't decide which is worse--that he might sing along to Bonnie Raitt or Ratt.  Either way, I think I would pass.





Ryan


I think it can be said with little shadow of doubt that it would be much worse if he were singing Bonnie Raitt. As for wholesale congregation sign-ups on JDate - <b>wtf</b>?

 Methinks Reb gets a cut of JDate profits.

 BTW - went to the Matzo Ball in Boca - totally worth the $15.00.





Marc Hessel

Marc Hessel


He's got my vote, minus the whole notion to him singing to Bonnie Raitt, if I were a gal I would pass! I do admit though, the guy's high eccentric personality, (as described by his profile there), is a rarity that I have seen in guys his age. However, he could have taken those Bob Dole commercials to heart. Its good to be young, wild and crazy I only hope I am when I am older, minus NPR and Orbison. As far as Jdate is concerned, I have tried it, got messages but refuse to pay to pay for the service, I don't ever think I would really pay for it, cause I don't really believe in the whole online connection much like I used to, and yes WTF is up with the bulk packages for congregations? Thats absurd.