As of last week, JDate raised their one month rate. They justify it by stating what you can do on the site and all of the events they plan, etc... A great alternative is JewishAmericanSingles.com where you only have to pay (and it's relatively cheap {$7-10/ mo}) to SEND emails/ ims. Reading/ replying is free, so if someone is interested, they CAN reply to you. The only problem with the site is that there are not many profiles. Hopefully that will change soon!