The Toronto-raised social media professional Cindy Seni gained fame by appearing on Netflix’s popular Jewish Matchmaking reality TV series to find a husband. Instead, she found the man who is now her basheret all on her own. In fact, Seni met him last summer, when filming was already underway for the eight-part dating show.
Their meet-cute happened through her day job with an organization that helps wounded Israeli soldiers, Brothers for Life.
They purposely kept a low profile while the show debuted, while viewers saw Seni going on arranged dates with a potential on-screen Netflix suitor. Obsessed fans later came to believe Seni was acually romantically linked to another show cast member, Noah Del Monte. But neither man was the lucky one.
Despite initial misgivings because her now-fiancé, Eldad Cohen, is an introvert and shuns the limelight, Seni credits the show’s resident matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom with helping her get to the chuppah.
Her real-life love popped the question on Seni’s birthday, July 3, at her Jerusalem apartment. Then she quickly made him do it over, formally, at Judaism’s holiest site, the Western Wall.
Seni returns to The CJN Daily to catch us up on her big news—even with an invite to her wedding.
What we talked about
- Read about the “Jewish Matchmaking” reality TV series on Netflix, when it debuted in May, in The CJN.
- Hear Cindy Seni describe the behind-the-scenes reality behind “Jewish Matchmaking”, on The CJN Daily from May 2023.
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