A Jewish Matchmaker Whose Hand Driven Hundreds Down the Aisle
By Level Oppenheimer
PITTSBURGH — While I walked into Tova Weinberg’s huge household here in the Squirrel slope community of Pittsburgh, she featured me personally top to bottom and requested, “Are your Jewish?” We informed her I became. “Are your married?” Yes, we stated.
That has been, it seems that, the incorrect address. She wrinkled this lady nostrils and mentioned, in a disappointed tone, “Oh, OKAY Never thinking.”
I had simply started size right up, next dismissed, as a possible match. Ms. Weinberg, 60, is just one of the nation’s best Jewish matchmakers. a dental practitioner by classes, she long since gave up that job on her behalf full time calling as a shadchen, to use the Hebrew and Yiddish phrase for example just who helps make shidduchs, or matches. (more…)