I recently heard a shiur by a famous Rov from NY. He was expressing ideas on mitigating the Shidduch Crisis. One idea was, with permission of the Rabonim of the neighborhood/community (he expressed this factor a few times) someone sponsor a shiur in their home, where someone says Divrei Torah, invite (older) single men and women. Afterward there will be “facilitators” to (intelligently) set up matches.
From this I see a few things: 1. approval of the local rabonim 2. meeting that involves divrei torah 3. controlled environment. He had a few other interesting ideas as well.
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