No. Jewish marriages are not arranged, and they have not been for a very long time in any part of the Jewish world you are likely to encounter.
The confusion is fair, though, because Judaism does have a long and living tradition of introduction — and from the outside, someone else deciding who you meet can look a lot like someone else deciding who you marry. They are not the same thing, and the difference is consent at every step.
Arranged marriage, as the term is normally used
An arranged marriage in the strict sense means the families choose and the couple complies. The decision sits with the parents; refusal is costly or not really available. That describes some cultures historically and a few communities today. It does not describe Jewish practice.
Jewish law is unusually clear on this point, and has been for a very long time: a marriage requires the woman’s active consent. A match made without it is not a valid Jewish marriage. Whatever social pressure a family might apply — and families apply plenty — the legal structure has consent at the centre of it.
What a shidduch actually is
In traditional communities the word for an introduction is a shidduch, and the person who makes it is a shadchan. What happens is this: someone who knows both families suggests two people might suit each other. Both sides look into it. If both are interested, they meet. They keep meeting if they want to and stop if they do not.
That is a referral, with more information attached than a dating app provides and more family involvement than most secular daters would want. It is not a decision imposed on anybody.
JLov is not a shidduch service and does not work inside that system — it is built for Jews across the whole range of observance, most of whom are not part of it. But the underlying idea, that a person who knows both people can do something an algorithm cannot, is the same one.
Why introductions persist when apps exist
Because they solve a different problem. An app is very good at showing you more people. It is almost useless at telling you whether one of them wants the life you want, and it has no incentive to tell you when the answer is no.
An introduction from someone who knows you both carries screening built in. The person making it has a reputation to protect and no reason to waste your evening. That is why the practice survives in communities that have every other option available to them.
The full version of this is in how Jewish matchmaking works and matchmaking versus dating apps.
Where family fits
This is the part that varies most, and it varies by family rather than by denomination. In some Jewish families — Persian and Israeli families particularly, but far from only them — parents are involved in a serious relationship early and expect to be. In others they hear about it when there is a ring.
Neither is a problem in itself. It becomes a problem when two people have different assumptions and have never said so out loud. How much family approval should matter deals with that directly, and it is one of the questions JLov asks at intake rather than leaving to chance.
The short version
Nobody is going to arrange your marriage. Somebody might arrange for you to meet someone, having thought carefully about why. Those are very different things, and only one of them has ever been Jewish practice.