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Category Archives: JDate
7 Women You Meet on JDate
Ester Steinberg is the actress in this, Jason Horton is the bloke. The seven women you meet on JDate are: 1.Persian Princess from Beverly Hills 2.The Girl from Camp 3.Agent Mogul 4.Israeli Soldier 5.Crude Comedian 6.Just Got Back from Birthright … Continue reading
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Negotiating Your Way Through Jewish Dates
I found this video brutal. For a little while, it was funny. Then it became depressing. But it’s an accurate look at love in the secular world. I like Ilana Angel’s new photo. The old one kept me from reading … Continue reading
Party Now…Repent Later!
From an ad for a JDate San Francisco party (emailed me by Yisroel Pensack): Party Now…Repent Later! Let it all out at our S.F. pre-High Holy Days 40 + bash! Sugar Cafe 679 Sutter St. (at Taylor) San Francisco, CA … Continue reading
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Tagged brilliant lighting, cocktail attire, high holy days, intimate cafe, JDate, sutter st
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Amalek Opines on What’s Wrong with Jewish America and JDate
If I can’t land a lady via JDate, then there’s obviously something very wrong with JDate. My inner Amalek writes: You don’t see Mexicans trying to meet one another through "Mexdate" or Palestinian women fretting about the ticking of their … Continue reading
JDate Party Bust
Danielle Berrin writes: The August 18 cocktail mixer and "Lost 80s" Live Concert was supposed to be the centerpiece event of JDate’s Schmooz-a-Palooza, a weekend-long extravaganza beginning with an oh-so-LA poolside party on Friday night at the Hyatt and ending … Continue reading
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I Strike Out On JDate – What Am I Doing Wrong?
Ladies, why am I still single? When I came to Los Angeles in 1994, I placed and answered a bunch of singles ads and met a lot of women and had some good times. In 1997, I went on jdate … Continue reading