Should an “incompatible” result always end a shidduch, especially for older singles with fewer options and new medical paths?

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Commonly cited reasons for the crisis in Modern Orthodox shidduch dating include religious dropout rate and not wanting to use a shadchan (matchmaker). In 2019 a large-scale study, the first of its ...

Many parents wish their children could date “the way we dated.” However, it is 2019, and we need to work the best we can within the present system. Certainly, it’s everyone’s right not to send a photo ...

That was the complete email from someone on the fringes of my life, who had never spoken with me about my personal life. For some inexplicable reason, his confidence that he had found my soulmate, or ...

Stoudemire, who has played for the New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns, converted to Judaism while living in Israel in August 2020. Amar’e Stoudemire told his Instagram followers recently that he’s ...

Why is it that in these somewhat advanced and contemporary times we allow the idea of seeking matrimonial matches for our children — shidduchim — to be equated with pleas for recovery from an illness, ...

One year ago, I was asked to speak on a panel at a Union for Traditional Judaism conference on the “shidduch crisis.” I agreed because I felt I had what to share on the topic. I had personal ...

Lately, Yocheved has been waking up at night worrying about her daughter, Shevi. Shevi is pursuing a degree in speech therapy. Yocheved knows that Shevi has always been an A student and that she will ...

I’m expecting my cap and gown in the mail any day now, and that is not a sentence I ever thought I’d write. In fact, a lot of unexpected things have been happening lately. Unprecedented things. Which ...

I that if New York is such a great place to meet people then why are there so many singles out there? Lo and behold, there might actually be an answer. Writing in TIME, Jon Birger, author of ...

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