Netflix’s Canadian ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ star Cindy Seni is engaged—but not to anyone from the show

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. The pair have been dating secretly for about 10 months, all while Seni, now 29, went on arranged dates with her potential Netflix suitor. She also led the show’s obsessed fans to believe she was romantically linked to another show cast member, Noah Del Monte. 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 Jewish Matchmaking, 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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