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“ And I realized it was an ideal environment for singles to meet each other.” “I felt there was a void in the Jewish community of Shabbat dinners in intimate homes,” she says. She started hosting at least one Shabbat dinner a month in 2013.

This is “Shabatness,” an invite-only service that sets up young Jewish professionals over Shabbat dinners.ĭavis is quite rare, a matchmaker who does things the artisanal way, setting up singles through dinner parties, not apps or algorithms. Later I’ll leave after arranging a date with an adorable man handpicked by Davis whom my mother would kvell-ahem, gush-over. The crowd is hushed as Erin Davis a 30-year-old, waif-like blond, our host for the night, announces it’s time for ice breakers, where we’ll read funny and ironic facts about each other and guess who it could be.

It’s Friday night and the table is a traditional Shabbat setting-a Kiddush cup filled with red wine, freshly-blessed candles and challah bread that’s been ripped apart and passed around the table. I’m sitting in a Manhattan apartment watching the sun set with 11 of New York’s most eligible Jewish singles.