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Kosher Singles

A fledgling New York Web site aims at Orthodox
matchmaking online.

DEBBIE HITSKY
Special to the Jewish News

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Jewish "family purity" laws, i.e.,
mikva. However, the directions on the
page admonish users to verify each
other's adherence to religious law.
Much of the information in the
application is privacy-protected: last
name, address, telephone, e-mail and
references. (The sections asking appli-
cants for their views on kashrut, edu-
cation, modesty, tribal affiliation, etc.,
are not). Users of the site can also add
a photo to their listing, provided it

he Internet! Has there ever
been a better way to shop?
This gift season, more of us
than ever spent our money
and time at the PC. You can find
everything for sale on the Web, from
big-ticket items like cars and homes to
"clearance racks" of less pricey, even
second-hand merchandise. So, it won't
surprise anyone, that
bashert shopping is
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also offered on the
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Halacha-Hotline,
Ra'
an organization serv-
ing the Orthodox
Jewish community,
has recently opened
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its new Web site,
aimed at finding
Welcome to to our site "X" you have arrived here through surfing
shidduchim (marriage
This site is dedicated to heirnishe Farm men and women, who have ei.'
matches) for
Our database is rather unique.
Orthodox Jews:
We require by principle, that all regisrants be individuals who are "Shomer Shabbos", and will observe the laws
eech individuals proffle. It is therefore incumbent upon each registrant to check and verify references on each otl
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number
tinental/friendship/ .
Our site shall serve a resource to assist serious people who are truly looking to find a ?shidduch with the intentic
The site is especially
We will IYH expand our site into other helpful areas. Please continue 'watching our progress. If you can be of as
In order to eliminate cyber-cranks we have set up the program vheras you are completly m control of your profi.
designed to help
The Procedure is simple and quick as 123
those who are wid-
SUBMITTING A PROFTLE •
owed or divorced, or
Orthodox Jews will-
ing to marry widows or divorcees
conforms to modesty standards.
looking for their meant-to-be.
When Rabbi Wohl ran a snail mail
Rabbi Yehoshua Wohl, director of
list to help mate-shoppers, his listings
the organization, says that in presiding
were 10 women to one man. Now, in
over a beit din (rabbinical court) in
its infancy, the electronic "shadchan"
New York for many years, the need for
tally runs five men to one woman.
a shadchan (matchmaker) for divorced
Ladies, take note! Interestingly, the
or widowed Orthodox Jews became
men so far are all never-marrieds, but
evident. Other Web sites for singles,
the lone woman is a divorcee!
he notes, were not always specific to
The buttons at the bottom of the
Jews, much less to the observant Jews.
homepage are not working as yet,
Or, he adds, when there were "kosher"
but the Web site, overall, is easy to
singles sites, they often required a
understand and use. Visitors don't
sponsor for both parties.
even have to register to search the
All registrants at Halacha-Hotline
profiles.
must be shomer4 ,_.. Shabbat, and observe
Happy shopping! 1-1