If the rates seem steep,and you can wait until Chanukah, twenty-two percent of JDaters report accepting their membership as a gift from their mother. [Insert overbearing Jewish-mother joke here]. Otherwise, a Newsweek article recently reported the growing rate of synagogue-sponsored subscriptions, paid for by local rabbis. What a mitzvah[18]!

Yiddish Notes: [1]Crazy people; [2]Decent or honorable man; [3]Complaining; [4]Person you are meant to be with; [5]Blessing; [6]Long story; [7]Snack; [8]Experiment, play around with; [9]Trinkets; [10]Thing, routine; [11]Drag yourself; [12]Grandmother; [13]Don't worry about it. [14]Oy. [15]Socializing; [16]Necessary; [17]Garbage, anything of little value; [18]Good deed.