Jews who are accustomed to online dating have seen pandemic-specific platforms—one is even called CoronaCrush—emerge to match the unusual circumstances.
The ads, to be featured in Orthodox Jewish publications as well as in the New York Jewish Week, were created to make Jews in New York more comfortable.
According to the NYPD, through September 2019 there were 163 reported incidents of anti-Semitism—an increase of 50 percent from that period the previous year.
Debbie Zimelman, a U.S.-born photographer who has lived in Israel for 30 years, spent five years with young women serving in 20 combat units to capture their experiences.