Are you Jewish and single? There’s an app for that.
Yenta, a new iPhone application that connects Jewish singles based on their location, debuted about a month ago, the latest in niche matchmaking.
Somewhat similar to the gay application Grindr, the free mobile dating service uses GPS technology to allow users to peruse the profiles of nearby Jews.
The profile asks questions like “How Jewish are you?” “What’s your shtick?” and “What will impress your mother?”
There are 10,000 users worldwide.
“You can walk into a coffee shop and you can find out who’s Jewish and single around you,” said creator Luba Tolkachyov.
“[The dating site] JDate is kind of the traditional model. To be able to log on to [Yenta], you have to go out. There’s no need for the lengthy profile — now we can see who’s single and near us.”