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The breakup had been painful, but Rivka was looking to get back on the dating circuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I ever would have seen myself going through an online forum to date,\u201d said the recent Ivy League graduate living on the Upper West Side, citing a background in mixed-gender educational and social settings. \u201cI just thought that I would meet somebody naturally \u2014 that\u2019s how most of my past relationships had been.\u201d<\/p>\n

“And its merging of old-school and new-school technologies occupies a potent middle ground in a fast-changing Orthodox dating environment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But a matchmaker, of sorts, beckoned. Rivka (not her real name), a veteran of the Modern Orthodox dating scene, thought the \u201chuman touch\u201d \u2014 rather than the impersonal, algorithm-driven technology that brings people together on sites and apps like JDate and the Tinder-inspired JSwipe \u2014 had potential.<\/p>\n

Read full here article on Jewish Week\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The breakup had been painful, but Rivka was looking to get back on the dating circuit. \u201cI don\u2019t think I ever would have seen myself going through an online forum to date,\u201d said the recent Ivy League graduate living on the Upper West Side, citing a background in mixed-gender educational and social settings. \u201cI just<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133695,"featured_media":60734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nIn Orthodox Dating Scene, Matchmakers Go Digital - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/news\/in-orthodox-dating-scene-matchmakers-go-digital\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Orthodox Dating Scene, Matchmakers Go Digital - 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