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Each Thursday on Unfiltered, I'll be bringing on a different anonymous guests to open up about

their real life dating experiences. We'll discuss what they went through or are going through, how they navigated it, what they've learned, and what advice they have to anyone else going through something similar. Unfiltered is your reminder that no matter what you're going through, you're not alone. If you have a topic that you'd like to discuss on Unfiltered, please email your story to seeing other People podcast at gmail.com to be considered for an episode.

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New York City.

And I'm here to talk about Jewish dating on all the different apps and how I found someone through all of that. Amazing. Well, first of all,

I just want to kind of give a little disclaimer to anyone listening. I know this episode is really

going to relate to me and some of my experiences. I know not all of my listeners are Jewish. I know you

might think, oh, this isn't going to relate to me. I'm not going to have anything to gain out of

this episode. Trust me, there is so much we're going to talk about that is

relevant to every single human that is out there dating and trying to find love. So definitely

stick around. And you might learn a thing or two about some of your Jewish friends too.

So thank you so much seriously for reaching out about this topic. I was really excited when I saw your email because it's something that I've experienced to some extent. It's something that I've seen a bunch of my friends go on kind of different religious journeys in terms of their Judaism and in terms of what they're looking for. And if they're looking for someone Jewish or not or if they're

kind of diving into being more religious and looking for somebody even more religious. And so

I know I have a lot of questions about this and I'm really excited to hear your experience. So

I want to kind of start by asking like have you always known that you wanted to be with someone Jewish?

And where did that come from?

So, I grew up in a conservative Jewish household.

And I would say it was almost like partial conservative because, you know, like sometimes we would have ham, but we would have to have it outside of the house,

things like that. So I was always told from a young age that that's what I should be looking

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