Meet the Jewish Matchmaker of Your Mom’s Fantasies

Meet the Jewish Matchmaker of Your Mom’s Fantasies

We ’m sitting in a Manhattan apartment viewing the sunlight set with 11 of brand new York’s many qualified Jewish singles. It’s Friday evening in addition to dining dining table is just a traditional shabbat setting—a kiddush glass filled up with dark wine, freshly-blessed candles and challah bread that’s been ripped aside and passed across the dining table. The group is hushed as Erin Davis a 30-year-old, waif-like blond, our host for the night, announces it is time for ice breakers, where we’ll read funny and ironic details about one another and guess who it may be.

Later I’ll keep after organizing a romantic date by having an adorable guy handpicked by Davis who my mom would kvell—ahem, gush—over. It is “Shabatness,” a service that is invite-only creates young Jewish experts over Shabbat dinners.