Gay Star News reports:
If you are fed up hearing your Jewish mother and grandparents kvetching that you’ve got to find already a Jewish prince or princess, despair no more – Yenta is here to help.
Yenta, meaning matchmaker in Yiddish, is the Jewish answer to Grindr, it’s a new dating app available on the iPhone that uses GPS to match Jewish singles, straight or gay.
Now you can sing along to fiddler on the roof: ‘Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a match, Find me a find, catch me a catch’ and in seconds you may find your ‘Jewboo’, a term used by the application for a match.
The app so easy to use that even your Jewish grandmother could join without giving you a guilt complex.
Download it (already!) from iTunes here.
A Jewish-only version of Grindr… who’d a thunk it? What do you think about this new app? Good idea? Bad idea? Would you consider using it?
Oy veh. One of these days I am going to write a book about getting my mother to stop calling my partner “shiksa.”
As for the app? Feh.
I wouldn’t mind going on Shidduch, or having a (live) Yenta take a crack at matching me up with someone.
But I’m not so much looking for someone to f*** me in a dark alley or gay book store bathroom. I’d rather get a quick match up for an actual date. If that’s what the app can do, I say, “sure, why not?”
Afterall, Speed Dating was invented by a Rabbi… and “SpeedDating” is apparently a registered trademark of Aish HaTorah.
Eh, why not. It’s not my cup of tea, no, but it’s really none of my business if people want to hook up.