Should each of us be setting up Shidduchim?
What are the biggest challenges and difficulties?
Is the “shadchanus” fee only paid to a professional Shadchan, or even to beginners?
What does the Shadchan need to do to earn the fee?
Can you set up two non-observant Jews? One frum and one not frum? Two non-Jews?
What advice do professional Shadchanim have for amateurs?
What are the most common fears that people have?
How do we get over those fears?
What is “Jewish Mindfulness” and how can it help?
What are the most common fears in dating and marriage?
Can anxiety or OCD ever make a person patur from mitzvos?
Is it permitted to take experimental/homeopathic/Chinese medication treatments?
Listen and cry along and become inspired to help
Should young men in yeshiva develop a plan for parnassa? If so, when?
Does having a parnassa plan also apply to those going into teaching and rabbanus?
Is “I want to learn” enough of a plan?
Does having a plan apply to young women?
Do girls in shidduchim ever ask “does he have a plan”?
Do boys in shidduchim ask: “does she have a plan for supporting a family” or “does her family have money”?
Is it okay to date two pepole at the same time?
Can you test your date’s middos, and if so, to what extent?
What should be the goal of dating?
What is the most important thing for a person to do when dating? Is love necessary?
Is choosing from pictures and photo albums/catalogs effective in choosing who to date?
What are current trends in dating? What types of singles events are being held?
Are friends helpful or hurtful in getting dating advice?
How Makpid should we be on names in marriage (father in law and son in law with the same names etc)?
Can younger siblings get married before older siblings?
Marrying for money?
How important is the family (if there’s a sibling off the derech etc)?
Marrying into a family of Baalei Teshuvos?
Health in the family what do you have to divulge?
How should people be dating?
What common mistakes are they making?
How do you know if you are getting bad advice?
What’s the most important ingredient to have a successful marriage?
What are significant issues that are easy to resolve? What are some common mistakes that spouses make?
What can boys and girls in Shidduchim – or even earlier – do to prepare for a successful marriage?
What should be done when a couple hits turbulence during marriage?
How to handle disagreements over: money, having additional children, conflicting minhagim, where to send kids to school and more
What needs to be disclosed (e.g., having a colorful background, health problems, addictions)?
When and by whom?
How should we respond to shidduch inquiries when asked?
Should references disclose everything? Can they lie?
Are people typically lax in disclosing?
Do certain segments of Judaism fail to disclose more than others?
Can things be patched up when problems are discovered after marriage?
What’s researched in advance by the parents, and what’s left for the boy and girl to figure out?
What specific questions should be asked? What can’t be asked? What must be asked? Who should – and should not – be asked?
Does it enhace chances of Shidduchim, or does it objectize the girls?, Are they being passed around like baseball cards?, Is it a breach of Tznius?, What can you know from a picture?, and much more…
Why are “quick divorces” happening? What’s a good reason to get divorced quickly? Is “incompatibility” enough? What needs to be disclosed while dating? Addictions, mental disorders, abuse? How should references respond to Shidduch inquiries?
Why are there so many broken engagements nowadays? How can they be avoided? Does the one who breaks the shidduch get penalized? Do the ring, sheitel and other gifts need to be returned? Who pays the costs which were committed to (wedding hall, photographer, band, make-up artist)? Does the Shadchan need to return the Shadchanus?
Marrying for money in Halacha and Hashkafah, and Preparing for a successful marriage
Correct amount of dates, Yichud, Yichus, How do you know when it’s right? and many other common shailos
Is There a Shidduch Crisis?, How much should a Shadchan be paid?
The Shidduch Crisis and Lashon Hara in Shidduchim
A possible solution to the shidduch crisis
Should we ostracize criminals whou caused great Chilul Hashem from our communities?
Were Chazal scientists?
Can a pregnant woman who contracted the Zika virus abort?
Tzedakos that give promises for people who donate.
Grama switch on Yom Tov, is it permissible?
May one switch a shachan in middle of a shidduch? Which one does he have to pay?
Is it permitted for a man to wear a watch?
Is the murex the correct tcheilis? Should one wear it Msafeak?
Can a woman recite Kaddish from the ezras Nashim?
The status of DNA in Halachah.
Chizuk to children who have been molested.
Do you marry your Bashert?
Cosmetic surgery and Hishtadlus for Shidduchim
The BRCA gene and Genetic testing – Understanding the halachic debate of Dor Yesharim Should we be testing for other genetic diseases for shidduchim and other relevant genetic debates in halacha