Call me a purist, a romantic, rude, or just wrong. I think this is disgusting. Charging someone more by the year? Why are we treating those who form the foundation of Jewish family life like they are being sold with opposite pricing of day old bread? The terrible message is two-fold: That the value of a woman, human being, a precious neshama changes within a matter of two, three, or so years, and that our young men value someone less by a matter of a handful of years? Shallow, to say the least, has no room in Judaism. And if a husband married his wife at 22, she is less valuabe at 23?? Every 22 year old is a more “difficult sell” than every 21 year old? This is how we look at these girls?
As being the recipients of Torah, we should be ashamed that ad was put out there. It shows anything but a Torah view of the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of family, and the sanctity of those young ladies looking to find someone. I think that organization should be approached by community leaders to change the program and young men should be told it is not derech eretz to say you want to date a 22 year old and not a 23 year old, solely on the reason of age. Terrible! It is a disgrace to run such an ad.