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  • While a Jewish proverb calls the convert a yiddishe neshama in a goyishe bod—a Jewish soul in gentile flesh—Wyschogrod holds that the convert becomes carnally Jewish, as if born to a Jewish mother.

    Choice and being chosen 2009

  • Uh….. when left-wing Israeli governments - including Saint Yitzhak and Brother Shimon - embraced Arafat and others with Jewish blood on their hands, all the “progressive” Jews were swooning with *yiddishe nachas* and urging the rest of us to get with their starry-eyed program.

    Neturei Karta Hasidim Hangin’ With Ahmadinejad | Jewschool 2006

  • On the bright spot, the Conservative Jewish movement is considering ordaining gay folks so I can still have some yiddishe pride

    See? See? People of different faiths CAN get along! 2005

  • Check out MODT: Member of the Dog Tribe, a new company which makes Magen David laden dog collars and leashes for the yiddishe doggy.

    Member of the Dog Tribe | Jewschool 2004

  • Even when the characters he impersonates - rabbis and priests, Jewish merchants and yiddishe mames, or even New York psychiatrists - verge on caricatures, his affection for them shines through.

    unknown title 2009

  • They are our brothers, our sisters, our yiddishe kinderlach, struggling under the cloud of uncertainty: uncertain where the money to pay the grocery bill will come from, or the mortgage payments … uncertain if they will even have basic food to put on their tables.

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2009

  • Even when the characters he impersonates - rabbis and priests, Jewish merchants and yiddishe mames, or even New York psychiatrists - verge on caricatures, his affection for them shines through.

    unknown title 2009

  • Speakeasy blog, and presented without any further comment, we give you Timberlake's unfortunate attempts at yiddishe humor:

    Tablet Magazine 2009

  • Most people knew the history that Rabbi Schorr was strongly against the concert last year with Lipa that was eventually cancelled, but most people couldn't understand what was wrong with having Lipa sing at a wedding, especially since he was singing nicely and appropriately and with yiddishe taam.

    Life Of Rubin 2009

  • How can this benefit the average Jewish woman, the one who like most is shorter, has darker curly hair and a "yiddishe punim"?

    Your Moral Leader 2009

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