Jewish dating for special needs

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Rivka Blumfeld and Joel Friedman have been dating for two months. And not to be rash or speak too soon, but things seem to be going well. They can spend hours quibbling about Pokemon Go hacks, menga graphic novels, and whether or not the upcoming Aquaman movie will suck consensus: probably, but it might be cool to see his telepathic powers on screen. The prospect of dating had previously seemed too intimidating, if not impossible. They met at a Brooklyn-based program called Ohel Bais Ezra, which provides an expansive range of social services to Jews—including many from the Orthodox community—with psychiatric and developmental disabilities. Mental illness and other disabilities are regarded with heightened stigma in some Orthodox communities—in part due to lack of understanding, in part due to widespread concern over the transmission of adverse genetic conditions. Orthodox Jews place tremendous emphasis on marriage and child-bearing; a Pew study found that fertility rates among Orthodox Jews are twice as high as the overall Jewish average.

Matchmaker Dvorah Alouf guarantees that within 12 months, she can successfully pair up Jewish singles and marry them off. Now the founder of three Web sites for Jewish singles is applying her experience to Jewish singles with special needs. The Web site, www. After emigrating from Poland in the s, Alouf taught Torah to high school and adult students in Canada and the United States, becoming a full-time matchmaker in

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