Sunday, March 13, 2005
YOUR HELP NEEDED!!
Hello, everyone...I'm putting together a plan for the next few months of my Jewish Week column, First Person Singular, and I'm asking the JDaters Anonymous community for help.
If you have insights into, opinions of or reactions to the topics and activities listed below, I need your help:
* Speed dating (REACTIONS NEEDED ASAP FOR THIS ONE)
* Shabbat singles dinner events
* Long-distance relationships
* Jewish singles travel (how effective is it, are we truly ourselves when we're on vacation, why is or isn't it a good environment for meeting a soulmate)
* Dating karma (whatever that means to you)
* Dating your friends (transitioning from one to the other, and sometimes back again)
* "The Code" between same-sex friends and how it impacts dating
* Relationship Dealbreakers
...and anything else you'd care to suggest as a future topic.
Thanks, and I hope to have more exciting columns and blog posts for you soon...
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4 comments:
I will second everything Keith said. It is also uncomfortable if you get paired up with someone you got paired up with at a previous event.
I could also go on about the scarcity of speeddating events for people over 40. Women fill them up quickly and men don't, so they get canceled.
I have done both 8 minute speed dating(where you meet 8 people), and 3 minute (through hurrydate where you meet 20 people and there is alcohol). I think the 3 minute dating is way better. It's funny you end up recognizing the same people that are on jdate and from other events but it seems more natural meeting them in person through speed dating, then via jdate.
A friend of mine met her fiance at a Shabbat Singles Dinner. They were at the same table and one thing led to another.
Shabbat Singles Dinners can be a great way to meet people. Two complaints - people who complain about the quality or amount of the food v. the price and/or the ability of the organizers to have all the names down of those who registered - those comments are a real downer at a non profit jewish organization. Also, while I am all for inclusion, allowing people in who wear ratty clothes/ripped jeans is not cool, in my humble opinion.
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