NYP<\/a>: Don\u2019t save your cutest cocktail dress for yet another friend\u2019s wedding: The best event for grown-ups to hookup is a bar mitzvah. Between the Manischewitz flowing and gefilte fish acting as nature\u2019s aphrodisiac, a bar mitzvah hookup is as natural as Adam and Eve.
\n\u201cA bar mitzvah is a great place to meet someone special precisely because it\u2019s the last place you\u2019d expect that to happen,\u201d says Arnie Singer, founder of Jewish dating site jzoog.com. He notes that you feel more comfortable because your guard is down. \u201cYou\u2019re relaxed and pow! You sit next to someone \u2014 who hopefully isn\u2019t a blood relative \u2014 and swap camp stories over whiskey sours and screwdrivers.\u201d
\nThere\u2019s little that surprises Rachel, a 32-year old bar\/bat mitzvah tutor from the Upper West Side who attends several dozen bashes a year and says she\u2019s witnessed plenty of grown-up flirting. Still, even she thought it was chutzpah when she discovered two guests going at it at a student\u2019s downtown bar mitzvah in 2013.
\nThe kid\u2019s aunt and a family friend were \u201cdirty dancing on the dance floor!\u201d recalls a horrified Rachel, who asked her last name not to be used for professional reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I moved to Los Angeles in 1994, I was particularly social for 18 months. Most of the women I was social with I met in shul. NYP: Don\u2019t save your cutest cocktail dress for yet another friend\u2019s wedding: The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60700,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60699\/revisions\/60700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}