By Ariel Leve.

If there's one thing Jews love, it's other Jews. JDate, a giant temple in cyberspace, is the "World's largest Jewish singles community"; an online dating service where Jewish singles can meet, mate and continue the tribe. My best friend Liza signed up a year ago and from the moment she joined, it's been nothing but misery. She has three photos up. In two of them her hair is curly, and in one of them, her hair is blow-dried straight. Men only respond to the straight-hair photo and this drives her nuts.

Clearly, the curly hair does nothing for them. So she is convinced that what men on JDate really want is a Jewish girl who looks as Wasp-y as possible. Big surprise.

As with many online dating services, JDate has a profile section to fill out first. Only on JDate, the categories include whether or not you keep kosher and if you go to synagogue on Shabbat. Liza checked "No" to all of these categories. Still, she receives emails from Orthodox Jews asking her out. She mailed one back and asked, "What is it about not keeping kosher and not going to synagogue that makes you think we're the 'perfect match', Menachem?"

It seems JDaters don't pay attention to details. Another section of the profile asks for a radius in which you would be willing to travel for a date. Liza put "three blocks" from her apartment. She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan - between H&H bagels and Zabar's - where there are more Jews per square inch than the Promised Land. Yet in spite of this, she has received emails from places all over, from New Rochelle to Tel Aviv. But at least those were in English. Last month she got an email entirely in Hebrew.

JDate also offers a variety of incidental services that can decimate one's self-esteem. For instance, there's an area called Members Who Have Viewed You. When Liza clicked on it, it said 108. Directly underneath is Members Who Have Emailed You. That number was 67.

She was curious to find out who, after viewing her, decided not to get in touch, so she looked some of them up. "ViewThisJew" was no prize himself. He could do a lot worse than Liza. She sent me his photo and I agreed he had some nerve rejecting her. Of course, now she wants him.

To hear Liza talk about her dates, I got the impression she could eat pork on a Friday with milk and it wouldn't matter. So if it's not for religious or cultural reasons, why are so many Jews drawn to JDate? Maybe because it's something to complain about.