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When Rabbi Mark Bloom bought memberships to JDate.com for his single congregants at Oakland’s Temple Beth Abraham, he had one goal in mind: They should find their beshert — Yiddish for one’s intended — within the tribe. “It’s about the continuity of the Jewish people, nothing less,” he said. “It’s fairly mathematical,” Bloom said. “Half the weddings I do, the people met on JDate.”