In the past, The League has also held large Shabbat dinners for their users, where they specifically seat people next to each other based on similar interests, educations, and careers. Jewish users worldwide: Created in , Grindr is the swiping app that started it all. In this location-based app for gay men, users can specify what they are looking for relationship-wise and are free to swipe through guys a day. Unknown Monthly messages per user: Since its launch, Her has quickly become the place for lesbian, bisexual, queer, and pansexual women to meet connect with one another online.

Live in 55 countries, Her also holds exciting events like massive soccer tournaments, queer cabarets, and camping trips.

Unknown Itunes Rating: Home Schmooze: Your Jewish Pop Culture Fix. Home Give Share Search Subscribe. Email Facebook Twitter. In less than a month, members have registered for same-sex searches, Laguna said.

Seth Kamen of Bethesda, Md. Indeed, with more gay men considering adoption and child rearing, the issue of finding a mate of the same religion has taken on added significance. Reform rabbis perform gay unions, and the issue has been a hot topic within the Conservative movement, which unlike the Reform movement does not permit the ordination of openly gay rabbis.

Straight people will not receive profiles of gay members, or vice versa. The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from to By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA. Halpern is 25, but still an undergraduate at McGill University in addition to going to seminary before college, she took time off school to work in web development. But it can be difficult navigating the disparate worlds of her various identities.

For example, same as for straight Jews who are accused of ethnocentrism racism for wanting to in-date, queer Jews find they are often misunderstood. Another important value is that of privacy. She confronted the woman, who confessed she set up an account just to see who she would recognize. It hurt me. Sliding scales rather than labels.

In the beta, users selected on a spectrum, how attracted they were to masculinity, or to femininity, and did the same to romantic attraction separating them out make the website inclusive to asexual folk. Like queerness, Halpern knows that Jewish identity is a spectrum, or rather a huge series of intersecting spectra.

And while the personal matchmaking will be a draw to the site, users will also have the ability to opt for an algorithm-only option. There are a lot of aspects of the project up in the air. While open to some sort of sponsor, the site will almost certainly be pay-to-use to sustain itself.

In the meantime, as start up capital, Halpern is making the very Jewish move of liquidating her Bat Mitzvah assets.