The recommendation that the real beginning for the Shidduch Crisis lies in demographics have not sat well with those that staked their reputations on alternate explanations. “This fancy cocktail of demography, sociology, math, and mythology is actually absolutely nothing a lot more than a Ponzi scheme,” United states Rabbi Chananya Weissman composed within the Jerusalem Post.

Weissman operates an organization called End The Madness, which aims to reform the Orthodox matchmaking system. Weissman places much of this fault for the Shidduch Crisis regarding the females on their own. While he published on TheYeshivaWorld.com web site, women can be too dedicated to “non-Halachic externalities” (for example., features perhaps not respected by Jewish law or tradition) whenever assessing potential husbands: “I would personally posit that feminism and un-Jewish values have experienced a devastating impact on the shidduch world… the exact same women that are supposedly simply hopeless to have married, who desire nothing but to fulfill a pleasant man whom does not drool all over himself, categorically reject the vast majority of males they come across without batting an eyelash—and then state the issue is there aren’t worthwhile guys.”

Weissman’s option would be for Orthodox Jews to count less on matchmakers and much more on singles occasions where young adults can mingle and move on to understand one another much more normal settings. Needless to say, there’s lots of normal conversation between college-educated men and women in new york, and that hasn’t fixed the too-many-women issue when you look at the secular globe. Continue reading Weissman operates an organization called End The Madness, which aims to reform the Orthodox matchmaking system.