For Jewish Communities

ThinkMatch for Jewish Communities

Add ThinkMatch to a gathering you are already planning. Guests answer a few optional, organizer-chosen questions and arrive with shared context, warmer introductions, and natural ways to begin talking.

Enhance the gathering you already have

Keep your existing invitation, registration, venue, and program. Add one free ThinkMatch link before the gathering so people have an easier way to enter the room and meet someone beyond the people they already know.

How ThinkMatch works

ThinkMatch adds a simple connection experience before the gathering without replacing anything the community already uses.

  • Share one link: Add a ThinkMatch link to the invitation or reminder you already send.
  • Ask relevant questions: Write custom questions or use AI to create editable drafts from event material. Guests choose whether to answer.
  • Find common ground: ThinkMatch compares responses, suggests people each guest may enjoy meeting, explains what they have in common and why they may want to talk, and provides conversation starters.
  • Connect before arriving: Guests can message or video chat without exchanging personal contact information. Organizers can also use the responses to form compatible small groups.

Help newcomers find a way in

A welcoming community can still feel difficult to enter alone. ThinkMatch can give new members, first-time guests, young adults, and people new to town a few points of connection before they arrive.

Useful across Jewish community life

Use it with Shabbat dinners and social meals, synagogue newcomer gatherings, young-professional events, adult learning, holiday celebrations, volunteer and social-action projects, retreats, Hillel programs, and other campus gatherings.

Create questions from anything

Write completely custom questions, or give ThinkMatch a Torah portion, holiday theme, event description, article, adult-learning topic, social-action project, or other source material and use AI to generate editable question ideas. You remain in control of every question guests see, and guests choose whether to answer.

Continue a discussion at a café

Common Quandary offers a separate way to meet around a timely article or everyday ethical question. Its in-person gatherings are held only at cafés; it is not a program for synagogues or other religious venues and is not religious instruction.

See Common Quandary

Private by design

ThinkMatch keeps communication inside the platform and does not share guests' phone numbers or email addresses with one another. The goal is a more comfortable introduction without asking people to give up control of their contact information.

What this can look like

Before a newcomer dinner, share a ThinkMatch link with five optional questions. Guests can discover shared interests, organizers can make more thoughtful introductions, and people arrive with a natural first conversation instead of starting cold.

A personal reason for building this

ThinkMatch founder Scott Rothstein is Jewish. This page reflects a simple personal belief: a welcoming community becomes easier to enter when people arrive with a little common ground and a natural first conversation.

Enhance an upcoming gathering

Create a free ThinkMatch event, choose questions that fit your gathering, and share the link through the invitation or reminder you already use.

Enhance Your Next Gathering

Find your community

Use the nationwide place-of-worship finder to locate your synagogue or another Jewish community venue and see how ThinkMatch can complement a gathering there.

Open the Worship Finder