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Examples
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My mother, may she rest in peace, would have called this a shanda, the Yiddish word for a shame, something you're not proud of and that you'd rather your neighbor doesn't find out.
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The leader of American Zionism in that period was Abba Hillel Silver, a Republican (a "shanda" for a Rabbi!), and as militant and power oriented a Jew as anyone in Begin's cabinet.
Begin and the Jews: An Exchange Fink, Robert 1982
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The Yiddish phrase was "a shanda fur die goyim," which translates more or less into "a scandal for the non-Jews."
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Madoff wasn't just a shanda to the goyim, of course.
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Rand (nee Alysa Rosenbaum -- shanda fer de Goyyim!) used every inch of more than a thousand pages to tell the mind - and soul-crushing story of Dagny Taggart, the beautiful and willful railroad heiress who blah blah blah never mind.
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“A shanda for a rabbi not to be married,” one woman says.
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Or as we Jews would say, Stop being a shanda for the goyim.
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Or as we Jews would say, Stop being a shanda for the goyim.
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It was a shanda for that guy to be walking and talking with Natalie Portman.
Asifa Quraishi: “Western feminists have lost opportunities to work with - rather than against - Islam and Muslim women." Ann Althouse 2008
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All the other game companies in Korea and China (shanda, netease, webzen, etc) have since adopted this method and supply ACU (average concurrent), PCU, ARPUH, and active accounts (those active in the last 3 months).
The Numbers Game 2006
sionnach commented on the word shanda
Seems relatively innocuous as a given name.
But not if your surname is "Lear". (Thanks, Treeseed)
March 16, 2008