Group therapy in a blog.
What’s Not to Love?
Every once in a while, a “Vows” column gives hope and inspiration. This is one of those, I think, as does the reader who wrote to alert me to it; as she framed it, “This chick is my new hero.” Witness the story of Amy Lefko and Ross Levy.
The bride, 33, graduated from the University of Kansas and was invested as a cantor at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. She is a member of the executive board of the American Conference of Cantors.
The bridegroom, 25, is the director of student life at the Jewish Community High School of Gratz College in Elkins Park. He is studying for a master’s in Jewish education and administration at Gratz. He also composed the music and sings and plays the guitar on “Where the Future Lies,†a CD of contemporary Jewish music from Sounds Write Productions.
A Jewish couple, equally immersed in Jewish life, meets through mutual interests and strikes up a mentoring, nurturing relationship that transforms into love, giving no mind to the age difference and following their hearts. Mazal tov and b’hatzlahah to the happy couple.
And in other engagement news: Bangitout.com co-founder Seth Galena proposed to Hindy Poupko on the CBS morning show, which you can view at Bangitout.com.; and regular JDA reader Drew Kaplan became engaged to the rarest of beings: A Jewish woman named Rachel.
Mazal tov, mazal tov…and hag sameah (a happy and healthy Passover) to all!
Mazel Tov and Happy Peasach!
A very long, long time I ago I went to Law School. It was way back in the day before Al Gore invented the internet, BUT I still remember something about the Uniform Commercial Code and Interstate Commerce and Lemon Laws etc., not much, but a little. So where am I going with this?
Attention JDATE SHOPPERS… JDate has a “no refund” policy!
The past 4 years that I have been a “user”, I never knew this!
I must admit it once again: I am an addict. I haven’t “used” in 3 months and put that money away. Then I fell off the wagon again last night. I renewed my membership in a delusional moment of weakness at 3:30 a.m. when I saw a profile with a picture of a favorite musician of mine, Duncan Sheik. For that moment, I actually thought that a Grammy-nominated artist was waiting to chat with me about his music via the Jdate IM. I quickly whipped out my debit card and renewed. Ahhh…then reality hit, wait a minute, Duncan Sheik is a serious Buddist. He’s 39, not 41, and HE DOESN’T FREAKIN’ NEED JDATE TO GET CHICKS!
So I called customer service this morning to ask them to refund the money to my debit card. No problem, right? Wrong! The response was “Sorry, we just don’t do that”. “We just don’t do that!” WTF? Any product that you buy after being influenced by an tv informercial 3 am has to, by law, allow for a “remorse” period and refund your money.
Could you imagine buying an outrageously expensive blouse at Henri Bendel’s and wearing it with the tags on and then if they said “Sorry, we just don’t do that” when you tried to return it (not that any self-respecting Jewish girl would ever pay full retail), but hypothetically, shopping as we all know and love it would cease to exist.
Who do they think they are to have a “no refund” policy??? Do they they think they are the only place a girl can go to IM unavailable Jewish guys at 3 am?
I do not believe that Jdate posted this profile as a lure, I just think that the dingbats they employ to approve the pictures were asleep at the wheel to let a professional headshot of a man who must be “too good to be true” go unnoticed.
Any of you young, newly minted J.D.’s (and JDate is FULL of J.D.’s) know anything about Internet Law? I don’t see how they get away with a “no refund” policy, even if their corporate offices are in England.
You can be sure I will be writing a scathing letter to David Siminoff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sparks Networks complimenting him on his brilliant business strategies and successful year of $68.9 Million in Reported Full Year Revenue (which is such a huge turn-on to a Capitalist Pig such as myself) but then I’m going straight to MySpace for FREE and I might even buy some free trade chocolate while I’m at it.
Chutz, I once posted a pic of Jessica Alba in my profile. It got approved. I even got more responses, lol. Not of a good kind, but hey, I got traffic at least