JWed.com

{{Short description|Online Jewish dating service}} '''JWed.com''' is an online dating service aimed at Jewish singles. The website, co-founded in 2001 by Ben Rabizadeh and Derek Saker, followed a predecessor called '''Dosidate''', launched in 1997.<ref name="forward"/>

JWed is an available service both through the website and the app. The latest version of the JWed app was released June 2024.

== History ==

Between 2001 and 2012 the site was called '''Frumster''', a play on the term Frum and a joke by Rob Schneider.<ref name="forward">{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/8181/|title=Hip Modern Orthodox ISO Same|website=Forward.com|date=19 September 2003 |accessdate=9 August 2017}}</ref>

In October 2012, Frumster.com changed its name to JWed.com. JWed launched in 2007 as a white-label site, sharing profile listings with Frumster.com until the name was completely changed 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/87242/dating-site-frumster-commits-new-name-jwed|title=Dating site Frumster commits to new name: JWed|website=Thejc.com|accessdate=2017-08-09}}</ref>

The site attracted criticism in 2004 for refusing profiles from people describing themselves as Conservative Jews.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-95234505.html |title=Frum Enough for Frumster? - the Jewish Week | HighBeam Research |accessdate=2009-03-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023100746/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-95234505.html |archivedate=2012-10-23 }} </ref>

In 2021 the site expanded operations by acquiring SuperTova.com.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.jns.org/wire/jwed-acquires-supertova-com/ |title=JWed Acquires SuperTova.com |accessdate=2025-01-31 |work=Jewish News Syndicate}}</ref>

== Membership and marriages ==

In December 2005 the site said it had 20,000+ members and had facilitated over 500 known marriages.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gordon |first1=Dave |title=Already hundreds wed: Internet dating site leads couples to a chuppah |url=http://www.jewishindependent.ca/Archives/Dec05/archives05Dec16-03.html |date=December 16, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090818013118/http://www.jewishindependent.ca/Archives/Dec05/archives05Dec16-03.html |archive-date=August 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |accessdate=2009-03-05 |work=Jewish Independent}}</ref> JWed CEO Derek Saker says that of June 2025, the site has over 80,000 members and has facilitated over 4,000 known marriages.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rabizadeh |first1=Ben |title=Fraud in the digital dating age |url=https://www.jpost.com/opinion/fraud-in-the-digital-dating-age-608246 |access-date=22 November 2021 |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=November 18, 2019}}</ref>

The site is open to all marriage-minded Jewish singles be they Orthodox observant or halachically Jewish singles.{{cn|date=November 2021}}

==See also== *Shidduch

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.frumster.com Frumster website] * [https://onlinepersonalswatch.com/2008/08/frumster-ben-ra/ Interview with Ben Rabizadeh], Online Personals Watch, August 2008

Category:Online dating services for specific interests Category:Websites about Jews and Judaism Category:Online dating services of the United States