I Spent a Month On Religious Dating Websites, and I Did Not Get #Blessed

Hana Nobel
The Bold Italic
Published in
11 min readJan 12, 2017

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Illustration by Julia Barzizza

I usually describe my religion as “Jewish, heavy on the –ish.” (Read: I will not go to services or fast on Yom Kippur, but I will swing by your breaking-the-fast party and bring some schmear.)

But during a dating dry spell that’s longer (and dryer) than Moses’s 40 days of wandering in the desert, I agreed when The Bold Italic asked me to…

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Mostly I write postcards, but other times I write about food, dating, & early-30s crises. Writing fueled by late night burritos. Crises fueled by neuroses.