I discourage people from signing up if they expect a date every week or every month. Fleischman, too, may take up to a year to set a client up with someone. She has asked her husband Shmuel, a businessman, to sit in on interviews with male clients. He can ask them questions I might feel uncomfortable asking or they feel uncomfortable answering. They also tend to be more demanding.
Some matchmakers act as intermediaries until the time the couple decides to marry.
But Katz prefers to bow out by the third date. It was initiated in the Baltimore area by Ahuva Albrecht, a native Israeli whose husband is a cantor. Albrecht founded and runs the company with Zahava Weinreich, a New Jersey resident and a fellow Sabra. With about 500 Orthodox and non-Orthodox singles aged 18 to 73 as clients, Albrecht says the company is responsible for about 12 successful matches. Members receive a brochure and a questionnaire, which they fill out and return along with two photographs.