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American Morning

Single Jewish-American Male Looking for Love

Aired August 22, 2001 - 11:53   ET

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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: You posed the question earlier, or I did actually. Let's go to it now. To what lengths would you go to make a love connection?

Many singles searching for that special someone have turned to advertising. Right?

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Yes. And a Jewish-American man took his ad to another level. Reporter Heidi Collins of our affiliate KUSA has his story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SAM WOLF (ph): Just like nice, and stuff.

HEIDI COLLINS, KUSA-REPORTER: Eleven-year-old Sam Wolf isn't too picky about the girls he hangs out with.

WOLF: I don't, like, worry about it, and stuff.

COLLINS: But Sam's sixth grade teacher, Mr. Shayes, is a different story.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I fixed him up with this one girl.

COLLINS: Sam's mom's has even tried to help. But it was Todd Shayes own idea that really turned some heads.

(on camera): This is front page.

TODD SHAYES, TEACHER: This is front page.

COLLINS (voice-over): He was playing the basketball in the Maccabiah Games in Israel in July. Since the gold medal game was being televised, he thought this could be his chance.

SHAYES: So I said, you know I should go into the stadium just saying, you know, single guy, anybody want a date?

COLLINS: So he had some help writing up a sign that would say it all.

SHAYES: It says, single, Jewish-American seeking Israeli wife, contact Todd Shayes, Tel Aviv Hilton, beginning July 17th. And all of the cameras were running over to us, and we thought, hey, we're on TV, it's great.

COLLINS: "Good Morning Israel" saw the game and asked Todd to be a guest on their show, and that was all she wrote.

SHAYES: When I got back that night there were 70 phone calls on my answering machine.

COLLINS: And that wasn't all.

SHAYES: And I said, Orrin (ph), you wouldn't believe it. Seventy phone calls after your television show. He said, Todd are you sitting down? He said in the last 12 hours, we've gotten 2,060 phone calls.

COLLINS: But still, no Mrs. right. Maybe it won't be just his students that learn something this year, maybe Mr. Shayes could pick up a thing or two from this crowd.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I really like girls. So I don't have any problems with them.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: And that report was from Heidi Collins of our affiliate KUSA.

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