Twenty-five women turned out at the Bortunks' home in Miami Beach last night, July 21,
for a meeting hosted by Shayna Bortunk and Toby Weic. After a Dvar Torah from Rabbi Mendy Bergovoy, a profile-sharing session took place.  

Rabbi Mendy, the "Shidduch Rabbi," also shared news of the upcoming Mega Shidduch Event, a Singles Mixer, to take place at The Shul of Bal Harbor on Tu B'Av, July 30. For more info and to register, please go to our Events Page on this site!

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The Miami Chapter met on Tuesday, May 19; Yashar Koach to Rita Steiner and hostess Aliza Zigelbom for a lovely gathering! The meeting featured Rabbi Haber from Brazil, who
spoke about his "specialty": Shidduchim for singles ages 30 and over. Rabbi Haber's talk was followed by profile presentations. Approximately 15 women attended.

We are excited about our most recent meeting, which took place on Wednesday, February 11 at the home of Mrs. Devorah Davidzada. A huge thanks to Mrs. Davidzada for opening up your home!! 

The theme of this meeting was GETTING TO THE ESSENCE PART 2. Some highlights that we covered: 

1) We did a Dropbox tutorial for those of us who have never used it before. Thank you to those who put their profiles in!! If you are familiar with Dropbox please please go in there for one minute and put the profile in. From now until the next meeting our goal is to have at least 20 profiles there - 10 for men, 10 for women! 
Last meeting we agreed that the organization and naming of files will go as follows: 
Click on either the Male/Female folder. Then within each folder we created subcategories of age, increments of 10 years. Choose the correct age range for the single. Then right click your mouse, and choose Upload File. Name the file the following: Female_Age ##_PROFILE_(and then the next number which follows the last number already in the folder). 
Contact us for Dropbox Login Info!

2) We viewed more video clips of singles. If you haven't already gotten a short video of your single, don't waste a minute and call them up right now to ask them to do it! 
Here are some sample questions that they should answer: 
- What is the most important quality that you would say you are looking for in your spouse?
- Tell me somebody that you look up to/admire and why?
- What's something you have a real love for, something that either relaxes you or something you just absolutely love doing?
Video clips shouldn't be more than 2-3 minutes long. 
Remember, these videos are meant to do two things: 
#1 Introduce the single to the group in a way that makes them a REAL person and not just another name on a piece of paper. That way we can feel like we "know" them a little more and can have hopefully more success in trying to match them with another single. 
And #2 to try to dig a little deeper beyond the basic facts on a profile and to GET TO THE ESSENCE of the person. To try to understand what makes them tick, so to speak. 
Once the video is made, let the single upload it to the Dropbox as well. The file should be named: Female_Age ##_VIDEO_(and then the same number that was used for the profile). 

It was a pleasure meeting with all of the ladies and we look forward to our next meeting!!

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This week, the Miami Beach Chapter hosted a Tu B'Shevat event. The meeting took place at the home of Rita Steiner in Bal Harbor, with Rabbi Menachem Bergovoy as the guest speaker.

The Miami Area Shidduch Group meeting took place on December 14/Kislev 22, hosted by Mrs. Rita Steiner in her home in Bal Harbor. Around 25 women attended the meeting where they learned together, were inspired by words of chizuk from Goldie Tenenhaus and Toby Weicz, networked with one another and made plenty of "L'chaims!"