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Commonly cited reasons for the crisis in Modern Orthodox shidduch dating include religious dropout rate and not wanting to use a shadchan (matchmaker). In 2019 a large-scale study, the first of its ...

Every day (except Saturday) five middle-aged women gather in the basement office of a brick building in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood to assure the survival of ultra-Orthodox Judaism.

That was the complete email from someone on the fringes of my life, who had never spoken with me about my personal life. For some inexplicable reason, his confidence that he had found my soulmate, or ...

In my office, I have a poster of an old Pogo cartoon with the caption, “We have met the enemy… and he is us.” It’s one of my favorite quotes, because it so neatly captures a hard truth: the problems ...

Lately, Yocheved has been waking up at night worrying about her daughter, Shevi. Shevi is pursuing a degree in speech therapy. Yocheved knows that Shevi has always been an A student and that she will ...

Many parents wish their children could date “the way we dated.” However, it is 2019, and we need to work the best we can within the present system. Certainly, it’s everyone’s right not to send a photo ...

A few weeks ago in these pages, Sandy Eller wrote about Frum Divorce, an organization founded 2½ years ago “to guide divorced parents and children through their new reality.” In that short period of ...

One year ago, I was asked to speak on a panel at a Union for Traditional Judaism conference on the “shidduch crisis.” I agreed because I felt I had what to share on the topic. I had personal ...

There are many angles and dimensions to the Shidduch Crisis within the American Yeshiva world. There is a consensus that there are more girls than boys in the dating pool and various suggestions have ...

(JTA) — Amar’e Stoudemire told his Instagram followers recently that he’s looking for a new partner, saying he’s ready for a “shidduch.” “Shidduch” dating, or dates set up by a matchmaker, is a common ...