Orit Arfa emails her members:

Dear Members,
After much consideration, I have decided for personal and professional reasons to discontinue the website, MANsch.net
Thank you so much for taking part in this cool experiment. Please stay tuned to my future endeavors and articles, some of which you can find out about on my website: www.oritarfa.com.
Your (former) MANschmaker,
Orit

Charles emails: Orit Arfa seems very nice, but Ayn Rand? Those books made there way around the dorm in yeshiva in Brooklyn and you could always tell who was reading them because they got better posture and wouldn’t talk to anyone-for about a week. If you see someone reading Fountainhead on the subway you can [...]

You can now read the whole interview (or at least the parts I wanted to transcribe).
Here’s a taste:
Luke: “What is it like getting critiqued?”
Orit: “If I can’t handle getting critiqued, I should not be an artist.”
“Women — and what I teach a lot in my book — women, yes, want to be recognized for their [...]

Orit Arfa reminds me of another beautiful writer I know — Tiffany Alana Stone.

From the LA Independent, March 31, 2004:

If the silver screen mythical Bridget Jones were real and living in Los Angeles, her delightfully funny diary probably could be read by anyone with access to the Internet.
Enter Tiffany Alana Stone, a literary disciple of [...]

Writer Ilana Angel posts to Orit Arfa’s Jewish Journal blog:

Hi Orit.
I’ve been blogging here at the Journal for several months about being Jewish, over the age of 40 and single. I was looking forward to reading your new blog and I must say that I’m surprised how totally different our takes are on love [...]

Here’s the big moment in our interview when Orit tests me, much in the same way God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son Isaac.
It comes eight minutes into this video.

Luke: “Do you believe that God is separate from the universe?”
Orit: “Wow!”
She looks flustered. The question has taken her breath away. She blushes. [...]

Here’s part one.
I really tried to keep the conversation holy, but…
Luke: “What do you think of the beard? What does it say to you?”
Orit: “It says I need to be accepted as an Orthodox Jew. Please accept me as an Orthodox Jew. I will prove to you through my beard that I am holy, that [...]

From my live cam:
ChaimAmalek: This Orit person needs to stop dating and just settle for some specific man. And then she needs to have babies.
ChaimAmalek: All this talk about dating and relationships only wastes time.
ChaimAmalek: She is the Jewish female analog of the young negro male: a “woman at risk”
ChaimAmalek: [...]

After our interview Monday afternoon, Orit Arfa emailed me: “”Twas fun! Notice how I s— tested you during the interview. Came from insecurity/question: is he really interested in what I have to say? Pose a challenge to readers: find the s— test! First ten who get it right get free copy of book.”

Read the whole thing.
Dec. 28, 2009, I interviewed Jewish Journal singles columnist Orit Arfa about her new book on the tests women give men.