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In this article on ejewishphilanthropy, Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman discusses Viewpoints contributor Dr. Sharon Weiss Greenberg’s exploration of feelings regarding the shidduch crisis in the Orthodox community.
Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, executive director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, put an open call out to members of the Orthodox Jewish community to share their thoughts and feelings about the shidduch crisis and being single. She could not have anticipated the outpouring of responses she received. Hundreds of stories of people being discriminated against, unhealthy stigmas and ill behavior flooded her mailbox.
In other words, what Weiss-Greenberg found is that many singles feel isolated from and stigmatized by the Jewish community.
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Sharon Weiss-Greenberg is the Director of Development at ELI Talks. She is the former Executive Director of JOFA. She was recently named by the Jewish Forward as a "Forward 50" Jew of influence and by the Jewish Week as a person to watch as a "36 Under 36" honoree. Sharon has served as the Rosh Moshava (Head of Camp) at Camp Stone, as the co-director of the Orthodox Union Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Harvard Hillel and as the first Orthodox woman chaplain at Harvard University. She has taught at Yeshiva University High School for Girls, Yavneh Academy in New Jersey, and the Denver Academy of Torah High School. Sharon earned her doctorate at NYU. She is an alumna of the Wexner Fellow/Davidson Scholarship graduate program, and ROI Community Member. She studied at The Drisha Institute for Jewish Education and received her B.A. and M.A. from Yeshiva University.