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A passionate leader and creative thinker, Lisa Elefant is the heart and soul behind Adopt A Shadchan. She turned AAS from a fledgling organization in one community, to a worldwide movement that innovates several new, successful programs yearly.

Lisa/Mrs. Elefant made her first shidduch 18 years ago and has not allowed anything (including Covid!) to stop her from creating Jewish homes around the world. After working in a Flatbush office for 30 years, Mrs. Elefant decided to focus all her energies on creating a worldwide network and platform for the singles and shadchanim in our communities.

She’s famous for inspiring shadchanim, networking around the world, founding dozens of incredible events and AAS initiatives, and most importantly – advocating intensely for singles, and making them feel supported, valued, and heard.

Fun, authentic, and with an uncanny ability to connect and spread warmth, Mrs. Elefant loves seeing what makes people tick and bringing out the latent strengths in those around her. With her wide variety of initiatives that appeal to every spectrum of society, Mrs. Elefant is passionate about teaming up together to accomplish more — without limits.

In 2019, Ruchi Giberstien founded Adopt A Shadchan with Lisa Elefant.

A veteran shadchan, great listener, and out-of-the-box thinker, Mrs. Giberstien has been setting up thousands of singles for 20+ years and has made close to 200 shidduchim. She primarily deals with singles in their 20s, and brings together thousands of singles from all over the US. Patient, easygoing, and calm, she coordinates and leads much of the programming for shadchanim and singles at Adopt A Shadchan’s Brooklyn headquarters.

A skillful, seasoned shadchan, Mrs. Giberstien is a fan of utilizing dating coaches (when necessary) to gain perspective and insight. A Brooklyn native, mother of 6 wonderful children, and former paralegal, Mrs. Giberstien brings warmth, patience and an unusual level of intuition to a confusing and draining process.

When she’s not coordinating dates, meeting singles, or guiding other shadchanim, you can find Mrs. Giberstien employing her people and life skills to do what she loves most: raise her beautiful family.