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Best Place to Meet a Nice Jewish Date

It’s a touching story: Boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy and girl meet beer keg. Did we mention the girl is a rabbi?


Perhaps the best story to come out of Congregation Emanu-El’s “Late Shabbat” is future husband and wife Roger Studley and Rabbi Chai Levy finding one another by that keg of He’Brew. But who’s to say there won’t be equally happy endings ahead for some more of the 300 to 400 young people who flock to the service/mixer on the second Friday of every month? Maybe that possibility is why Emanu-El was named best place to meet a nice Jewish date in San Francisco.


Across the Bay, the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay has had success with Smooth Monday, a singles event held at Oakland-area establishments once a month. Smooth Monday was picked as tops in the East Bay. “It’s great not to have to shlep over to San Francisco for Jewish young adult programs,” Leah Greenblat, a Smooth Monday committee member, told j. “I love the idea of an active, young Jewish community right where I live.”


In second place was Hadassah’s Sushi and Martinis event in San Francisco.

First Place

San Francisco

Congregation Emanu-El
(415) 751-2535
www.emanuelsf.org/yac_worship.htm

East Bay

Smooth Mondays
(510) 839-2900
www.jfed.org/yld

Second Place

San Francisco

Sushi and Martinis, Hadassah
(415) 771-5900

Best Dance Club for Singles

Remember John Travolta bouncing through Brooklyn en route to the disco in “Saturday Night Fever”? Well, take away the white suit, the gravity-defying hair, make him Jewish and send him out once a month and, well, you’ve got the scene at the Cellar, which was voted the best dance club for singles in San Francisco.


The Cellar’s 2nd Saturday event brings in as many as 250 young Jewish singles and, perhaps even more amazingly, scores of guest Jewish bartenders (the notion of 21 bartenders in one establishment is wild enough, let alone 21 Jewish bartenders).


The club also collaborates with various Jewish organizations — ranging from the S.F.-based JCF’s Young Adult Division to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. All that will help make you feel warm and fuzzy as you cavort on one of several subterranean dance floors, flop down on the oversized couches to get better acquainted with your dance partner, or order a cosmo or two from the barkeeps.

First Place

San Francisco

The Cellar
(415) 441-5678
www.cellarsf.com