People think that once you get married, the shunning stops, that suddenly you’ve finally arrived into the Jewish community as a full fledged member, but you haven’t. In fact, some may say that you’re better off staying single than marrying…
Tag: older singles
Older singles are not welcome here
Why are you living in my community? Why haven’t you realized that you’ve exhausted all of your dating options within a 300 mile radius and the only people left to date are out of your hashkafic realm or not halachically…
Fine you’re a matchmaker!
Fine, You’re a Matchmaker by Anshel M. My. G-d. What have I gotten myself into? Nervous as you can possibly imagine, I called this shadchan (“she is NOT a shadchan”) on the insistence of my friend’s mother (“Oh please, don’t…
The best ways to make an older single feel bad
It’s no coincidence that the Blogging world is filled with shidduch blogs, I would say that they are right up there in popularity as the Israeli political blogs and ex-frum heretic style blogs. They are filled with angst, sadness and…
First there was fat camp, then there was shidduch camp
We have all heard of fat camp, a place where fat people go to lose weight and integrate into normal society. Being an older single like being obese must be a disease or a genetic predisposition and therefore we bring…