Baltimore Jewish Times: Non-Jewish “Pro-Semites” Pepper JDate
Rima Adler had exchanged a couple of messages with a guy on JDate, but hadn’t yet read his profile. When she finally did, she saw something she wasn’t expecting—he wasn’t Jewish; it said so in capital letters.
The 34-year-old District resident quickly wrote back to tell the man that she wasn’t interested in dating someone who wasn’t Jewish, and he told her he understood.
Still, she was surprised. “I guess my assumption was that the reason to go there was because … everybody [would] be Jewish,” she said.
Increasingly, that’s not necessarily the case at the Jewish online dating site.
A new book, Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes, by Mark Penn with Kinney Zalesne, who both live in the District, states “nearly 11 percent” of JDate’s members are non-Jewish.
