JDate is a useful database tool that asks the right questions of its members.

It allowed me to weed out 97% of its members (ie: the local high-strung nonsense) and leverage the very best feature of JDate: the ability to go global.

Being Jewish is more than brunch on Sundays. Even secular Judaism can be a tributary into a worldwide river of kinship. My most worthwhile experiences with JDate were not the west side martinis or occasional NJ trists, but rather, the connections I was able to strike with Jewish women in different countries... many connections materialising into meetings, a few meetings leading to further friendship, one such friendship leading to marriage. Would we be here, could I have met her without JDate?

What a great tool! Build a penpal friendship in advance of your next planned trip to Europe or South America. At the very least you can enjoy the company of a new friend in the context of tourism and forced temporality. Even more thrilling is being able to meet a fellow Jew, someone with similar inner values, yet someone with a different outer culture that can make for exciting and fresh exchanges! Escape the banality, the abyss of local dating, the bottomless pit of despair only deepened by the redundancy of JDate...

... unless you go global!