Jewish Dating

Basically, Jewish dating is double dating all the time. There’s you, there’s your date and there’s your entire mishpocha if not physically there, then emotionally and spiritually there. “She’s/He’s not good enough for you.” “His/Her parents aren’t successful enough to marry into the family.” “She’ll/He’ll never amount to much.” And the list goes on and on and on. It’s no wonder we’re losing so many to intermarriages. At least when you date a shiksa/shagetz, it’s all so horrifying, your family can’t handle it. Also, there’s no way a gentile could even hope to be good enough, so that’s the least of the worries.

I remember when I first started dating, my father told me that if I was looking for a wife, date a Jewish girl. So the forbidden fruit of a shiksa was exciting in contrast to the family approved, therefore uninteresting, notion of a nice Jewish girl. Besides, who was looking for a wife at 16? Now I find out that a gentile friend of mine’s father gave him parallel advice that if looking for a wife date a girl of the same religion. As an adult, I finally got it. Actually, my father’s advice steered me away from Jewish girls for quite a while. Then as luck or lack of luck would have it, my first wife wasn’t Jewish. What could I do? I fell in love with one of those sexy gentile girls. But the marriage didn’t work out and I met another gentile girl, but this one was so taken with Judaism after we took a course that she converted. Now she’s more Jewish than I am. Who knew?

Anyway, back to dating. I’ve been working on a television show called “Miss Match” with Alicia Silverstone (a very nice Jewish girl!!). It’s based on an actual person who was a divorce lawyer and a matchmaker (shadchen). So a few weeks ago, I met the woman on whom the show is based. A very nice woman. And she makes matches the old fashioned way. She meets the various men and women and then using her innate abilities as an excellent judge of human beings, she matches them up. It’s truly a mechaiah to watch her work. If you want her number, email me at meshugenehmike@sillymusic.com and I’ll give it to you. But a word of warning……she’s picky! And not cheap!! But in truth, finding the person of your dreams is worth all the money in the world, right? Of course, if you spend all your money on this shadchen………..Never mind that.

Good luck to all of you out there searching for love. I’m a lucky guy to have found it in my wife and my three wonderful children. I can only wish you what I myself have found.

Meshugeneh Mike

PS- If you want two hilarious CDs about dating, love and marriage, check out my CDs, “Goys and Dolls” about Jerome Schwartzberg trying to find his Jewish identity and a nice Jewish girl, and “Say Oy Vey” about Sam Baum and Mae Feinberg finding love at the bridge club.