Sentences with word «yenta»

On one side, Barry Grodenchik, former one - term assemblyman, long - term habitué of Queens Borough Hall, purse - carrier for yentas from Claire Shulman to Helen Marshall to Nettie Mayersohn to current avatar Melinda Katz, represents the traditional Queens County Dems, who have all lined up behind him.

Patrick Perrine, the founder and CEO of myPartner, saw a niche and went for it, expanding his private yenta business into a full - blown online dating and matchmaking service that he launched last June.

In some ways, it has become a «virtual yenta,» joining online dating sites like eHarmony that claim amazing success at bringing couples together for marriage.

So online - dating companies looking to tout their success as matchmaking yentas have sought novel ways to enumerate marriages.

There are sites like ourtime that focus on singles over 50 and lots of sites that focus on different religious groups, including jewish dating sites like yenta and jdate.

Are Yentas In The Past Or Are Jews Turning To Dating Apps?

There is a lot more to feminism than a gaggle of self - serving yentas talking over coffee about raising children and finding jobs during the depression.

«He's got an inner yenta.

The four girls become chaperones for the soon - to - be couple, and they are as charming a quartet of enthusiastic young yentas as any teacher could hope for.

«This is a special place where it's a wonderful slice of New York and you have yentas, bochinches, y mas yentas,» Schneiderman said, using the Yiddish and Spanish slang for busybodies.

Yentas are out, activities are in.

The photographs were taken by award - winning photographer Randal Ford, and the «yenta» concept came from creative director and standup comedian David Roth, who produced the campaign with Hogarth Worldwide.

JDate is promoting their images to suggest that it's «yentas» who are working out the algorithms for perfect pairing.

They're not poster girls for senior dating; rather, Jdate is promoting their images to suggest that it's «yentas» who are working out the algorithms for perfect pairing.

Go to a yenta!

We used to have yentas or parents to help us get married; now we have to fend for ourselves.

I send off the matchmaking services halifax survey and set up the second part of the FOAF process a one - on - one meeting with my yenta.

(Jdate for Jewish singles, considered the yenta of the niche world, goes back to 1997.)

Supporting the stars, Michael Gough is marvelous as the butler Alfred (he plays him as a kind of yenta), but in some of the minor roles the actors are either unremarkable (Kim Basinger) or intrusive (Robert Wuhl).

Think of it as a personalized, time - saving tech - yenta.

We are the yentas for hire.