Speed Dating For Jewish Singles

In this day and age, everything happens so fast that we often find ourselves constantly trying to catch up. New technology today is obsolete tomorrow. The hippest fashion trends will become fashion disasters next season. That’s why we’ve invented fast food, cell phones, high-speed internet, and ever-evolving computers.

This obsession with the fast and the furious has even reached the realm of dating. Speed dating is popular among professionals who don’t have time for a ritual courtship. It allows them to meet a lot of people in a small amount of time – that’s efficiency in the new millennium. Jewish speed dating has become a phenomenon in the singles world. It takes careful coordination, a large member base in the immediate and surrounding area and a lot of work on the part of the dating service to pull it off and make it successful.

Here’s a play-by-play: the dating service contacts a large number of its members in one major metropolitan area and invites them to a social event. For a modest fee they are guaranteed that there will be many members there of the opposite sex that they will be able to interact with during the event.

At the sound of a whistle, all of the women will sit down at prearranged chairs and tables in a very large room. Then the male members will take seats opposite the ladies. Once seated, the two single Jewish people will have a fixed amount of time, ranging from 3 to 7 minutes, to talk to each other and introduce themselves.

Then the whistle will sound again and the men will get up, move over one table to their left, sit down and the entire process repeats until everyone has had a chance to sit in front of and introduce themselves to everyone else. Then the singles will hand over the names of those they are interested in seeing again to the organizers, who in turn will give them the phone number of those on their list. From there, anything can happen.

This very unconventional method may sound silly, but when the dating service is specific enough and talented enough in inviting the right people to the event, after talking to 50 or so people there is usually a mutual interest from at least a few.

Speed dating is not for everyone. But if you’re confident enough that you can go out there making a dazzling first impression, it’s definitely worth considering.