מיר האָבן אויכעט אָנגעזונדן די לײַכטערס אָבער איך האָב קיין מאָל נישט געהערט פֿון דעם שפּיל. כ׳האָב אָבער געמאַכט לאַטקעס פֿונעם רעצעפּט פֿון רוס & טעכטערס קאָכבוך. אַ פֿרייליכן חנוכּה.

But rent controlled. 😉

טעם גן-עדן איז צווישן מײַנע באַליבסטע אויסדרוקן.

סוועטער-שמעטער, פֿע! כ׳פֿאַרבענק זיך נאָר אויף 70 גראַד און העכער.

Emily, I completely agree with your assessment. Thank you for putting it to words clearly and succinctly.

Golde, Tevye’s wife in the original Yiddish stories by Sholem Aleichem that Fiddler on the Roof is based on, during a discussion about the universe quips, “better my borscht and no universe than a universe without my borscht”. That’s confidence, that’s a heroine.

Sorry, just being a one-dicked human.

I didn’t know states have mayors.

It feels like when actual violence is involved it doesn’t really matter if the motivation is “merely” anti Zionism or out and out antisemitism. I’m going to a big outdoor Jewish event in upstate New York on Sunday. The police presence last year was large, I can only imagine what it’ll be this year.

Terribly sad. I studied photography briefly before realizing I had no talent for it. His work moved me.

Fair enough.

Would you elaborate?

Can you elaborate?

I know, I know I shouldn’t but…

My understanding is that community gardens have historically been sites of community organizing and activism in opposition to government/corporate, let’s for fun say, hegemony.

However I won’t dispute that affordable food from Costco and real affordable housing wouldn’t better serve the community.

יענס האָב איך נישט געקענט. אַ דאַנק. (כ׳האָף אַז ווײַל ס׳איז וועגן שפּראַך, ס׳איז ריכטיק צו ניצן קענען).

A question tomorrow for my Yiddish teacher.

Great post Joshua.

I’m quite fond of עלעהיי too, and apparently אַ שטייגער ווי has the same meaning. What always tortures me, as a non-native speaker, is the nuances in their uses. For example both כּמעט and שיער נישט mean almost. But the latter has a sense of danger as in, one almost died, that the former lacks.