Who Knew Online Dating Was Such A Litigious Arena?
from the rabbis,-the-internet,-and-lawsuits-galore dept
If you're single and Jewish it doesn't take you very long to hear about the site Jdate. Jdate is owned by a company called Matchnet, which runs a number of online dating sites. For a while, they had a "resident rabbi" who is no longer involved with the company. The story as to why, however, is more than a little bit bizarre. The story involves a rabbi who's written the book "Kosher Sex", a disbarred lawyer, a phone sex entrepreneur, and a former convict. Roll them all together, and add in an attempted dot com IPO and you've got yourself quite a story.
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