The CJN Daily A few of the recent news stories reported by Ellin Bessner
Canada’s plucky contribution When the producers of Netflix’s Jewish Matchmaking reached out to Jerusalem resident Cindy Seni, she had just come out of a three-year- long relationship—and she was back to swiping away on dating apps. But the idea of using a matchmaker appealed to her because the producers would propose carefully vetted candidates for the show starring Aleeza Ben Shalom, who claims to have arranged 200 suc- cessful marriages. The lingering also played a role in 28-year-old Seni’s on-screen social life last summer, because two of the three men she was sup- posed to be fixed up with tested positive for COVID. They had to drop out—and she never saw them or even learned their identities. She did go out on two dates with a 34-year-old technology worker: Daniel from Tel Aviv. He took her to an art gallery but didn’t seem to be enjoying himself. But when Daniel showed up late for their second round and didn’t give her enough of an explanation for why, she was “#CindyOut”, as she likes to call breaking it off with men. Seni’s family has roots in Tunisia, Italy and in France, where she was born and spent her first six years. But by 2000, her parents felt they could no longer live openly as Jews there, and the family of six
moved to Toronto. After a stint working in public diplomacy for the Israel Consulate, she chose to make aliyah in 2018. At first, her parents weren’t keen on the idea, as she told the matchmaker when they first met. “My dad told me, ‘If you want to move to Israel, you need either a job, a husband or money.’ I said, ‘Listen, I don’t have any, I’m going anyway.’”
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