Another Jewish Identity The Jewish Community Council Web site offers local teen-agers a new way to be Jewish. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER 'le the Internet may li people om from oppo- link site ends of the globe, the Jewish Community Council is hoping it will link young Detroiters, too. The JCCouncil has created a Youth Computer Network, which connects Jewish youngsters here to almost all Jewish youth orga- nizations the world over. But you better have patience. A New Way To Meet Jewish singles, going the way of modern technology, link up through America Online. II i. I'm LMCohn@aol.com . Haven't I seen you some- where before? Probably in a Jewish singles chat room. On America Online alone, the Jewish community section provides a matchmaker option, complete with chat rooms for singles, from Reform to Ortho- dox, never married to widowed, straight and gay. And it looks like people are truly meeting online. Just click on the "keyword" button in the upper right cor ner of the screen and type the word "Jewish." Along with in formation on kosher cooking and holiday observance, the Jewish community online page offers singles a chance to con- nect. There are personal ads, with 0 The site's graphics are vivid, but its server is slow. After signing on via America Online, I spent an hour accessing the site's different options without seeing everything. Now I know America Online has been slower than usual late- ly. So I tried directly accessing some of the sites offered on the Youth Computer Network. Mis- sion (quickly) accomplished. If I couldn't sit still through the link-up, I can't help wondering how a busy teen-ager will have the patience to wait for a Web page. Beverly Yost, the JCCouncil community liaison, was surprised to hear of the site's slow pace and promised to look into the problem. "The last time that I did it, I didn't find that that was a problem," she says. Whether you use America On- line or another Internet service to access the Web, just dial http//wwwjfmd.org . That ad- dress takes you right to a picture of a red Coca-Cola machine, with the name of the popular soft drink spelled in Hebrew. It doesn't require coins to pick a selection. Just click on the but- and without photos scanned in. There are young singles and older ones, observant and less so. Most of the individuals who take out personal ads lean to the Reform side of Jewish ob- servance. Almost all describe themselves as "attractive" to "very attractive" and, at least on-screen, they have tons of talkative energy. The computerized personals come from all over the country, with two men and one woman currently listed from Michigan. AOL ads, sans photo, cost $19 apiece, and those with a picture run $25. Both types re- quire a $5 charge for any changes made to the ad after it is posted. But if you're not too keen on the idea of selling yourself ro- mantically, you can just talk. No faces, no places — just anonymous flirtations that are oftentimes informative and al- most always intriguing. Click on singles chat, and you'll find a bevy of available topics: small town singles, best lines from the other sex, clean Jewish humor, broken hearts, big/tall/beautifiil singles ... se- riously. Point the mouse to meeting places, and you'll locate a fold- er for Jewish singles in Michi- gan and Indiana, a Great Tikes option, a listing of events/infor- mation. Sadly, there's not much go- ing on online in the greater De- troit area. Mostly, singles seem to be typing to each other from the New York area, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and a bit from Washington, D.C. Otherwise, s a bit here and there but not much. There are also folders for each religious denomination, college and graduate students, "disabled/special populations," divorced Jews and by age as well (50s, 40s, 30s, etc.). 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