heimish

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It is undoubtedly the crisp's heimish (Yiddish for "homey" or "comfortable") nature that makes it a Shabbat dinner favorite, served either as a dessert or during the meal as an alternative to kugel.

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  • It is undoubtedly the crisp's heimish (Yiddish for "homey" or "comfortable") nature that makes it a Shabbat dinner favorite, served either as a dessert or during the meal as an alternative to kugel. —  The Jew and the Carrot
  • [pray] but where there's a bond between people, a warm intimate atmosphere that's heimish, a home away from home.
  • Not to mention chassidm and even rebbes associated with even more unsavory things, so that there has to be glatt food in prison for the heimish criminals, and so on. —  Your Moral Leader
 

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