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-JDate is now offering “a bulk rate to rabbis who want to buy membership accounts for congregants.â€? But singles gotta sign themselves up: “No mothers, no grandmothers.” (Daily Herald)

-Lilith Magazine looks at whether online dating systems such as JDate are good or bad for Jewish women.

-Shmuley Boteach argues, “Curing the singles scene is one of the foremost priorities especially of the world Jewish community whose greatest challenge today is not intermarriage but lack of marriage.� The conventional approaches, as he ticks them off, don’t work. (The Jerusalem Post)

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