This business seems to be primarily based in NYC. However, they also offer speed dating events in Northern New Jersey and Toronto.

Their speed dating events are restricted to different age groups - an age group spanning about a decade (example: 25 to 35 years old). The vast majority of their events are in NYC which is where they offer the most variety in terms of age groups.

The frequency of their speed dating events outside of NYC, as well as their variety (in terms of different age groups) is very thin as I write this.

Furthermore, the focus of this service is unclear - at least to me. My initial impression was that it was a non-religious site. However, if you explore the site, it seems to be oriented toward Jewish singles. Whether they cater exclusively to Jewish singles isn't clear - which seems weird to me.

Either approach is good as far as I am concerned. However, what's bad is - not being unable to communicate clearly whom your website is for. A simple tagline would have done the trick.

The founder of the site, Rabbi Yaacov Deyo, has written a book called "Speed Dating'. One of the book reviewers at Amazon wrote something that echoed my thoughts about the lack of transparency with regard to the website.

The reviewer wrote: "If you think 'Speed Dating' is going to be about those relatively new round-robin events you may have been hearing about lately where people get 6 or 10 mini-dates of something like 7 or 10 minutes duration each in one evening, that would be logical and yet you'd be wrong.

Even though the authors claim to be the inventors of those now-popular events, and to have a decade's worth of experience putting such events on, this book isn't about that. It only gets eight superficial pages in the appendix, six of 'em about the rules for such events.

This is too bad because it would have been interesting to get the low-down on these things from some seasoned experts.

Instead, the book is about a general, goal-directed dating philosophy based heavily on the Jewish Talmud (book of wisdom) which is designed to help you find - you guessed it - your 'soul mate'".

Offline Speed Dating

Posted by Gregg.