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In Kew Gardens Hills,
observant women take
matchmaking matters
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HILARY LARSON
Special to The Jewish News
7-NIGHT
MEDITERRANEAN
T
C
he Orthodox women of Kew
Gardens Hills, N.Y., have
developed' a new twist on an
age-old art.
With no interest in a profit other
than bringing happiness to friends, but
with a sense of organization common
to dating service businesses, hundreds
of women are involved in a roughly
five-year-old phenomenon of match-
making "clubs." Without offices or
computers, circles of women host par-
ties at which they pool their romantic
resources to find love and happiness, or
at least a night on the town, for lonely
Orthodox singles.
"This isn't a business," stated
Danielle Strauss, who attends groups as
well as holding singles parties in her
home. She noted that the women
charge nothing for their time and
effort, which they see as a service to
their family-oriented community
"Finding someone is a huge problem,"
she added.
"When you move to New York, you
kind of rely on friends, acquaintances,
people you know — it's hard to meet
people otherwise," says Orit Kanowitz,
a young married woman who recently
moved from California and has become
involved in the matchmaking scene.
Based on this notion, women have
been getting together in groups as
small as five and as large as 50 to brain-
storm lists of available singles, trying to
identify probable matches. The move-
ment is concentrated in Kew Gardens
Hills, but groups of this nature are
springing up around the metropolitan
area, including Far Rockaway. Despite
the informality of meetings, which take
the form of cocktail or dessert parties
in private homes, "we're very serious
about it," said one woman.
Armed with notebooks, the women,
who are mostly married but sometimes
single (depending on the group), gath-
er information on each single acquain-
tance ranging from level of religiosity
to occupation to divorced or widowed
status. Looks and age are also impor-
tant information, and if the person in
question is baal teshuva, or newly
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