We welcome you from famous city Almaty. Our republic occupies huge territory which is making a concession on the sizes among republics of CIS only to Russia. The population of republic is rather insignificant, about 16 millions, density of the population is small, the distances between cities are measured in hundreds, and some times and thousand kilometers.

Historically has developed, that the Jews work in all branches of economy of republic and are distributed all over Kazakhstan. In most cases they live in an environment of other nationalities. In this connection the close dialogue between the Jews is at times complicated, especially between youth. In republic work synagogues, the public Jewish organizations, there is an effective help to elderly and patient people, their leisure is organized, the Jewish schools, children's gardens, camp, circles also work, and the Jewish newspapers are issued. However, the presence of work of these organizations does not interfere, and on the contrary induces to organize the new forms of dialogue between the Jews, especially between the Jewish youth.

In this connection we are going to organize "Jewish dating agency". The name is preliminary, probably further will be updated, but the basic task it explains precisely.

For successful performance of this work it is necessary to us to use experience of those Jewish organizations, which carried out or will carry out the similar action.

Therefore, dear readers, we ask you about the help! If you are interested in participation in our project, please to inform, whether will your organization carry out or carried out the similar action? If carried out or will carry out, we ask to share the experience, to tell about results, to send samples of the documentation, used by you, (questionnaire, forms, booklets, etc.). Tell about conditions of usage of services of agency. Please inform names and surnames, telephones of the people engaged in this action.

We shall appreciate, if you will send the representatives for an exchange of experience.

If the names and essential elements of other organizations engaged organizations of acquaintances and marriages between the Jews are known even approximately for you, convincingly we ask them to inform. As wider information we'll collect, as more successful will be our work.

Edward Press