JDate
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| Categories | Jewish, Jewish |
| Free Offer | Create a profile |
| Pros | Even ratio of men to women, hosts large Jewish events in major cities, includes magazine by JDate members |
| Cons | - |
Welcome to JDate, the premier Jewish singles community on the Net. It’s no wonder that countless marriages begin right here – it seems like everyone knows someone who fell in love on JDate! Check out our Mazel Tov section for hundreds of success stories and you’ll see why JDate is the undisputed leader in Jewish dating. As the modern alternative to traditional Jewish matchmaking, JDate is an ideal online destination for Jewish men and women to find friends, dates, and even soul mates, all within the faith. In just minutes, you can create a profile and be ready to mingle with other JDate members in your area. Our vast membership base and user-friendly interface make JDate a source of Jewish romance around the world.
Using JDate is an adventure — we’re continually adding exciting new services to a list of features that includes Click!® technology, video instant messaging, live chat, and much more. Meeting new people has never been so fun! Who knows? The next wedding you attend could be your own.
JDate. Where it happens.™
Review
JDate is a useful database tool that asks the right questions of its members.
It allowed me to weed out 97% of its members (ie: the local high-strung nonsense) and leverage the very best feature of JDate: the ability to go global.
Being Jewish is more than brunch on Sundays. Even secular Judaism can be a tributary into a worldwide river of kinship. My most worthwhile experiences with JDate were not the west side martinis or occasional NJ trists, but rather, the connections I was able to strike with Jewish women in different countries… many connections materialising into meetings, a few meetings leading to further friendship, one such friendship leading to marriage. Would we be here, could I have met her without JDate?
What a great tool! Build a penpal friendship in advance of your next planned trip to Europe or South America. At the very least you can enjoy the company of a new friend in the context of tourism and forced temporality. Even more thrilling is being able to meet a fellow Jew, someone with similar inner values, yet someone with a different outer culture that can make for exciting and fresh exchanges! Escape the banality, the abyss of local dating, the bottomless pit of despair only deepened by the redundancy of JDate…
… unless you go global!
Testimonial
Over 9,000 JDaters voted and picked Valerie and Jeff as the next couple to be featured on our Times Square billboard.
Valerie’s adventure began when her mother and her best friend, having enjoyed several successful dates through JDate, ganged up on her.
After living in New York City for years without having met the “nice Jewish boy” she had always wished she would, Valerie caved and agreed to give it a try. She had an old laptop on which graphics seemed to have a mind of their own, so she could seldom see the photos of men who responded to her profile. But Jeff’s email caught her attention and, after playing a little phone tag, they agreed to meet for a drink. Valerie still had no idea what Jeff looked like, so she asked her mother to check his JDate profile with her own computer. The report came back that Jeff was “good looking, clean-cut with a blue button-down shirt on.”
Trusting her mother’s opinion, Valerie ventured out one Friday night (March 15, 2002) to meet her future husband for a drink. Jeff was the first man she had met in person via JDate. That drink lasted for hours. They laughed and talked and laughed some more. The couple learned that they had even lived on the very same street at the very same time!
Jeff walked Valerie home and asked if they could go out the following night with his friends. It was his birthday celebration. Valerie was apprehensive – did he really mean it, or was it just the euphoria of the evening talking? She suggested that if Jeff truly wanted her to meet his friends and join in the celebration, he should call the next day to extend the invitation. The following afternoon, Jeff called. He’s been the only one for her ever since.
The adventure continued through visits with each other’s families, magical vacations, the weddings of friends and birth of their children. As life went on, the couple realized that they wanted those things too, and wanted to have them together. Long-term, happily-ever-after was their goal and nothing was going to stop them.
On September 18th, 2004, Valerie entered a hotel room filled with thousands of rose petals and candles. Jeff got down on one knee to ask if they could begin the next phase of their lives together as man and wife. Valerie cried tears of joy. She couldn’t wait to begin. Jeff and Valerie were married Sept. 5th, 2005.
In the beginning, Jeff and Valerie told only close friends and family exactly how they met. Until recently, they felt a stigma still existed about meeting on the Internet. But as time passed, the couple realized, “Why not tell everyone about JDate? Maybe they can live out their happily-ever-after, too!” Nothing made that more evident than when the couple discussed the wedding ceremony with their rabbi. He was not the least bit surprised to learn how they met. Valerie says she still finds it amazing that she and Jeff are together because her mother thought he looked nice in a blue button-down shirt.