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...Harvard Hillel’s Web site states, “Speed dating is as Jewish as kugel.” And the ritual has some roots in tradition: in the ’90s, Yaacov Deyo ’85 set up “SpeedDating” events to match up single Jewish men and women in Los Angeles. According to Michael B. Pershan ’11, president of the Harvard Hillel Men’s Club, this year’s Saturday night speed dating at Hillel aimed to “give Jews a chance...
Since 1999, when a Los Angeles rabbi, Yaacov Deyo, co-author of Speed Dating: The Smarter, Faster Way to Lasting Love, divined a way to get Jewish singles to mingle, scores of speed-dating services have popped up, offering time-pressed lonely hearts a chance to meet dozens of prospective partners in a single evening. One such service, HurryDate, launched in New York City two years ago, now runs dating events in 50 cities in the U.S., Canada and Britain--and points with pride to its first engaged couple (set to wed this June). TIME went to a session...
Count Laurel and her Purple Moon CEO Nancy Deyo among the pioneers. "If you're going to change how girls relate to science and computers, you need to do it by sixth grade," says Laurel, who has spent the past five years studying the play patterns of girls at the critical age she calls "too old for dolls, too young for cosmetics." Her research is based on conversations with more than a thousand girls, who (boys, take note) were interviewed with their best friends in attendance in order to "keep them honest...
...result is a fascinating portrait of gender-based misconceptions. There's a reason, for example, that the company isn't called Pink Moon. "We tested names with boys," says Deyo. "And when we showed them Purple Moon, it was just, like--bam!--'That would be for girls. Because purple [not pink] is girls' favorite color...
...siblings, and so on. Purple Moon misses no chance to add layers of complexity or to cross-merchandise; most of the characters in Secret Paths are kids from the Rockett series revealing themselves more intimately. They'll also turn up this fall on the Purple Moon Website. "Every character," Deyo promises, "will write and publish her own Web page." One girl named Whitney, for instance, comes across in the Rockett games as kind of a...well, let's just say it rhymes with witch. "But we learn in the tree house," Laurel adds reassuringly, "that her parents are divorced...