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Hoping to address what is seen as a matchmaking crisis among Orthodox Jews, Jeff Cohn is launching a program to enable singles to conduct their first "date" via teleconference.

First Date 2.0: ShidduchVision aims to ease shidduch crisis

Hoping to address what is seen as a matchmaking crisis among Orthodox Jews, Jeff Cohn is launching a program to enable singles to conduct their first "date" via teleconference. (Jeff Cohn) Read more »

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, is greeted in Salvador by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and a Jewish Brazilian state governor, Jacques Wagner, Nov. 19, 2009. (Manu Dias / AGECOM) Yuri Foreman addressing the media after capturing the WBA super welterweight title from Daniel Santos in Las Vegas, Nov. 14, 2009. (Catch Miura) Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, left, and Israeli President Shimon Peres meeting in Brasilia, Nov. 11, 2009. (Jose Cruz / Abr) Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Esti Ginzburg and Dean Stern, host and co-chair of a fashion show showcasing Israeli designers in New York on Nov. 11, 2009. More than 15 Jewish organizations co-sponsored the event, which attracted some 800 young Jewish professionals. (Maya Barkai) Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries dancing during a procession toward Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 11, 2009, following the completion of a Torah scroll in honor of the six slain terror victims at the Chabad House in Mumbai, India, in November 2008. The scroll, written by Chabad's 4,000 emissaries from around the world, will be sent to the Mumbai Chabad House. (Baruch Ezagui / lubavitch.com) Catheline Manville of the University of Central Florida holds the Havdalah candle during a ceremony at the close of the annual Chabad on Campus International Student Shabbaton in Brooklyn, N.Y., where hundreds gathered from more than 100 campuses worldwide/ (B. Lifshitz / Chabad.org) Attendees of the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly gather at the Marriott Hotel in Washington, Nov. 8, 2009. (Robert A. Cumins / Jewish Federations of North America) Young Palestinian girls learn with Israel trainers to defend against sexual assault and other acts of violence as part of the Impact program at The Israel Women's Martial Arts Foundation in Jerusalem, Nov. 8, 2009. (Kobi Gideon / Flash90 / JTA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, Nov. 9, 2009. (Robert Cumins / Jewish Federations of North America) Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, left, Charles Bronfman, Michael Steinhardt, and Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, commit to increasing the number of Jewish young adults visiting Israel at an event held on the eve of the GA in Washington, Nov. 8, 2009. (David Karp)

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  • Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, is greeted in Salvador by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and a Jewish Brazilian state governor, Jacques Wagner, Nov. 19, 2009.
  • Yuri Foreman addressing the media after capturing the WBA super welterweight title from Daniel Santos in Las Vegas, Nov. 14, 2009.
  • Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, left, and Israeli President Shimon Peres meeting in Brasilia, Nov. 11, 2009.
  • Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Esti Ginzburg and Dean Stern, host and co-chair of a fashion show showcasing Israeli designers in New York on Nov. 11, 2009. More than 15 Jewish organizations co-sponsored the event, which attracted some 800 young Jewish professionals.
  • Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries dancing during a procession toward Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 11, 2009, following the completion of a Torah scroll in honor of the six slain terror victims at the Chabad House in Mumbai, India, in November 2008. The scroll, written by Chabad's 4,000 emissaries from around the world, will be sent to the Mumbai Chabad House.
  • Catheline Manville of the University of Central Florida holds the Havdalah candle during a ceremony at the close of the annual Chabad on Campus International Student Shabbaton in Brooklyn, N.Y., where hundreds gathered from more than 100 campuses worldwide/
  • Attendees of the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly gather at the Marriott Hotel in Washington, Nov. 8, 2009.
  • Young Palestinian girls learn with Israel trainers to defend against sexual assault and other acts of violence as part of the Impact program at The Israel Women's Martial Arts Foundation in Jerusalem, Nov. 8, 2009.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, Nov. 9, 2009.
  • Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, left, Charles Bronfman, Michael Steinhardt, and Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, commit to increasing the number of Jewish young adults visiting Israel at an event held on the eve of the GA in Washington, Nov. 8, 2009.
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