Despite the sustained feedback of more than three thousand readers who took the plea to heart and a new receptiveness among many to explore creative solutions it’s apparent that a problem of such complexity and immensity cannot be solved with one magazine feature alone. The required change in attitudes approach social mores and standards is an ongoing process that we as a community must undertake together. While change can be wrought through authoritative instructions it’s often achieved in less dramatic ways — through gently altered attitudes and small incremental steps. In this case change is being pursued on many levels and in many spheres. It’s a process. We are committed to the process and to continuing the conversation. In the following pages Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz shares an update on the progress that’s been made in the weeks since he turned to the public to place the shidduch catastrophe at the top of our agenda. The focus is both systemic and individual with some changes on the institutional level and others of the small incremental sort. As we look forward to a sweet new year we pray that we keep moving forward in the direction of progress and that we merit a year of yeshuos in every sphere — as a klal as parents as founders of the future homes of our nation and as the individual children of an all-powerful Creator.

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