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his clients are in their 20s
and 30s.
Persons interested in being
matched up with potential
dates are interviewed by
Dorn, who has been providing
the service for about five
years. He looks at the client's
age, educational background,
prospects for earning a living
and asks for references. Of-
ten, he asks if the client is
acquainted with a member of
the congregation and he will
ask the member for a char-
acter reference, rather than
seeking out names supplied
by the client. Is the venture
successful? Apparently so.
According to Dorn, 15 percent
of those who registered with
him have since become mar-
ried.
Another option for Jewish
singles is the Floating Sing-
les Congregation, held on a
rotating basis in Reform and
Conservative congregations
for singes age 25-40. Directed
by Rabbi Joseph Kelman,
spiritual leader of Beth
Emeth Bais Yehuda
Synagogue in Downsview, the
Floating Singles Congrega-
tion meets once a month on a
Friday night. In place of a
formal service, there is a pro-
gram, followed by an Oneg
Shabbat. On an average,
about 150 persons attend,
and there are about 200 on
the mailing list. About nine
synagogues are currently in-
volved. A part-time director
is being sought to expand the
program.
Rabbi Kelman said the
Floating Congregation was
started because many singles
were tired of the bars. "A lot
of singles were at loose ends
on Friday night," he said.
The program was begun be-
cause the Rabbis felt that
"this would be a non-
threatening environment" in
which singles could interact
with each other. Begun 1 1/2
years ago, Kelman has di-
rected it since last August.
Singles who just want a
listing of what's happening
can take a glance at the sing-
les column in the weekly
Canadian Jewish News.
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Compiled by Miriam
Chinsky, the singles column
contains about 20 listings per
week and includes Jewish
Center and synagogue activi-
ties as well as events spon-
sored by individuals, like
Dorfman's Metro Toronto
Singles. There also is a cable
singles show, Single Scene,
hosted and produced by 38-
year old Stan Glass, which
airs at 6:30 p.m. Mondays
and 7 p.m. Thursday, on
Newton Cable Channel 10 in
North York. It has features of
interest to singles and a
calendar of coming events.
For information about gen-
eral singles activities, the
Daily Globe and Mail has a
listing under its "For Your
Night on the Town ..." col-
umn.
For the brave of heart,
there are some discos/bars
where Jewish singles can be
found. DeSoto's on Mt. Pleas-
ant south of Eglinton has a
disc jockey spinning 50s and
60s rock and roll with inter-
mittent dance numbers by
staff dancers, much like the
waitresses doing the "Hand
Jive" at Detroit's Jukebox.
For the Yuppies and the
trendies, Rooney's is hot, and
just to mix with a young
dinner crowd, go to the Pickle
Barrel at Leslie and Dexter,
north of Finch. Thursday
night is singles night in To-
ronto, and that's the time to
hit the singles bars.
This list is by no means
complete, but offers a random
sampling of what's available
to Jewish singles who are in-
terested in meeting other
Jewish singles while visiting
Toronto. It's better to know
someone there before arriv-
ing, because generally, that
person will have a line on
what's going on for singles.
When in doubt, ask ques-
tions. The Toronto Jewish
community is friendly and
accommodating.
Next week: What Toronto
Jewish singles do to meet
each other. ❑
Toronto Facts and Statt
Toronto, Ontario, was in-
corporated as a city in 1834.
Currently a major financial,
industrial and cultural cen-
ter, Toronto saw an influx
of 400,000 European refu-
gees following World War
II. It is Canada's largest
English-speaking city.
(Seventy-three percent of
the Jewish community
speaks English as its first
language.)
The metropolitan area
population numbers
2,137,400, of which 130,000
are Jews. (In 1984, accord-
ing to the Canadian Jewish
News, Toronto's Jewish
population made a major
gain owing to the influx of
8,000 Montrealers, 6,000
Soviet Jews and 2,500
South African Jews.)There
are 30,000 Jewish singles
over the age of 20. One in
every seven Jewish families
with children is a single-
parent family.
The major Jewish areas
within metro Toronto are
Thornhill, Downsview,
Willowdale and North York,
whose mayor, Mel Lastman,
a noted businessman and
philanthropist, is Jewish.
Nathan Phillips Square at
the base of Toronto's city
hall is named for the city's
first Jewish mayor, who
served nearly 30 years in
office.
Of Jewish persons age 20
and up, 27 percent are pro-
fessionals, 20 percent are in
clerical fields, 18.5 percent
are in sales, seven percent
are in processing and min-
ing, four percent are in
services and 3.5 percent are
in other fields.
There are about 60
synagogues and temples —
Orthodox, Reform and Con-
servative. There are eight
Jewish newspapers, the
major one being the Cana-
dian Jewish News, a
weekly. There also are He-
brew and Russian newspap-
ers.
There are 12 kosher re-
staurants certified by the
community's Vaad HaKas-
hrut, and along the commu-
nity's main thoroughfare,
Bathurst St., one can find a
variety of Jewish restaur-
ants, bakeries, bagel fac-
tories, shops and services,
,especially between Lawr-
ence and Sheppard.
The counterpart to De-
troit's Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration is the Toronto
Jewish Congress. Many of
the major Jewish organiza-
tions have representation in
Toronto, among them Israel
Pioneer
Bonds,
B'nai
Women/Naamat,
B'rith, United Jewish Ap-
peal, Men's and Women's
ORT and National Council
of Jewish Women. Both
Bank Leumi ad Bank
Hapoalim have branches in
Toronto.
Three Jewish Community
Centers serve the commu-
nity, one at Spadina and
Bloor; the JCC-North on
Bathurst, which, in addition
to classrooms and athletic
facilities boasts music
studios and a theater arts
wing; and the JCC-Valley,
where singles activities are
held and tennis is hot. A
Holocaust Memorial Center
sits adjacent to the JCC-
North.
These facts and statistics
were compiled from
information supplied by the
1986 Ontario Tour Book of
the Automobile Association
of America, Gil Kezwer,
public relations associate,
and Gary Speisman,
demographer, Toronto
Jewish Congress, and the
Canadian Jewish News.