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@JewYid

2 years

pronouncing Christmas with a khet until they stop pronouncing Chanukkah with an H

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@JewYid

9 months

Someone was kind enough to find a black yarmulke and put it on the steps of our synagogue a week ago. The problem is it's a bra pad

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@krotchetygaon (had to ask the wife) knew I had seen it around before, didn't know what it was called

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@JewYid

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Last night two Boston yeshiva boys found a man drowning in a water reservoir. They flagged down a police car. Man was barely saved, not conscious, brought to hospital. Policeman told boys that the man had a swastika tattoo on his hand. Boys' response: "Tell him a Jew saved him."

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@JewYid

5 years

Boston yeshiva boys found a man drowning in a water reservoir. They flagged down a police car. Man was barely saved, brought to hospital. Policeman told boys that the man had a swastika tattoo on his hand. Boys' response: "Tell him a Jew saved him."

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@JewYid

3 years

I'm uncomfortable with living through Americans pondering the Jewish Question in real time

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@JewYid

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@dizzygirl812 In Boston a surprising amount of ppl walk their laundry down the street

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@JewYid

4 years

My wife successfully sniffed out a Jews 4 Jesus couple that moved into town & the post that set off her alarm was this from the woman to her husband: I am so thankful HaShem put you as the head of our home. And I'm laughing that THATS when my wife knew they weren't Jewish

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@JewYid

2 years

Mazel tov. Baby girl. Mom and baby fine. 10lb 3oz, 4630g

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@JewYid

5 years

Hipster-Amish-Hasid Venn diagram

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@JewYid

1 year

Do other cultures rate candies based on their (in)ability to injure? Or is it just Jews?

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@JewYid

3 years

Thankful to hear my cousin made it out of Kabul safely to Qatar this morning

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@JewYid

5 years

Orthodox Jews on Jan 1: New Years resolutions are stupid Orthodox Jews on Jan 5: LET'S COMMIT TO SOMETHING FOR THE NEXT 7 YEARS!

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@JewYid

6 years

Friendly reminder that "Nazi" is short for "Nationalist" in German. We don't need that word to be reclaimed at this time. Ty

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@JewYid

11 months

The synagogue I went to for a year in Berlin, with a school inside that my daughter attended, had molotov cocktails thrown at it to burn it down. Now non-Jews are protecting the building with their bodies.

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Trotz Dauerregens sind viele Menschen zur heutigen Mahnwache an die Synagoge in die Berliner Brunnenstraße gekommen, die in der Nacht zu Mittwoch Ziel eines Brandanschlags war. „Wir freuen uns sehr über die Unterstützung von Nachbarn und Anwohnern“, heißt es von der Gemeinde.

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@JewYid

4 years

10 minutes early to the kiddush

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@JewYid

11 months

Journalists being shown the horrors of the Hamas pogrom is reminiscent of the use of film (and camp visits) to show atrocities after World War II to make German soldiers and civilians understand what truly happened.

(((Emanuel Miller))) 🇮🇱

@emanumiller

11 months

Hundreds of journalists and photographers from media companies all over the world attended today the screening of a film of assorted footage showing the extent of the horrors committed by Hamas. Footage was taken from numerous sources, including from bodycams worn by the

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@JewYid

6 years

tales-ferd - zebra 🦓 Lit., "horse with a prayer shawl" #Yiddish #NotInTheDictionary @jothar

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@JewYid

4 years

Georgia is really annoying to spell in Yiddish דזשארדזשיע

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@JewYid

6 years

Just caught the Fiddler on the Roof reference in @SpongeBobBway ! As the volcano 🌋 erupts and the Bikini Bottom residents make their "exodus," they sing "Bikini-tevka." Great show!

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@JewYid

5 years

"A chassid comes up to me asking for a cigarette. I pull out a pack and give him one. He rips it in half and throws it down. 'You ask for a cig and then throw it away?' 'I stopped smoking a week ago, but I haven't given up shnorring (begging for stuff).'"

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@AhinAher

5 years

ליבי במזרח. @JewYid

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@JewYid

4 years

an orthodox jew's nightmare. Ppl watching while you make a bracha

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@JewYid

3 years

Purim and St. Patrick's Day are on the same day next year.

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@JewYid

4 years

🎶 I'm going take my horse to the

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@JewYid

3 years

Some nice person is sending me a Yiddish typewriter they didn't want to throw away. They saw my name mentioned in the Wall Street Journal article on them and tracked me down.

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@JewYid

4 years

Blickensderfer Yiddish typewriter

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@JewYid

4 years

Who knew? NYC shtark (strong), שטארק when someone doesn't pay attention to right to left languages, turns into NYC crotch (kratsh) קראטש

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@JewYid

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Travis Pratt

@TravisCPratt

4 years

The annual book tree is up! Always with a heavy Crim-literature presence and this year topped off with a T-Rex 🦖

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@JewYid

3 years

My rabbi quoted and then translated "shtei shabosos" as "two shabbosim" in his speech today, multiple times. Two different plural forms, one for Hebrew and one for Yinglish

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@JewYid

4 years

When I turn 40, I'm going to start with this

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@JewYid

6 years

Fact: Yiddish (and Hebrew) doesn't have capital letters. So there's no way to YELL AT SOMEONE online when you want to.

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@JewYid

5 years

Thanks @MikeRNBCBoston for reaching out to me and confirming the story! Jewish Teens Don't Regret Helping Save Man With Swastika Tattoo | NBC10 Boston via @nbc10boston

Jewish Teens Don't Regret Helping Save Man With Swastika Tattoo

It was late at night and a group of Jewish teenagers were on a walk around the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Massachusetts. Boston College Police Officer Carl Mascioli was on patrol on May 17, the night...

www.nbcboston.com

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@JewYid

3 years

A lot of people are going to learn their grandparents don't actually speak Yiddish. #Duolingo

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@JewYid

6 years

American Orthodox Jewish Labels 💂 🕵️ 👳‍♀️🧢

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@JewYid

3 years

So after taking two semesters of Russian last year, I just traced my family back to the 1750s using Russian census records. As one does

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@JewYid

3 years

Now non-Jews can know how we feel when we don't find our names on anything as a kid

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@JewYid

4 years

Why do we say Sholem Aleichem (hello, but in plural even when just talking to one person)? My chavrusa learned because everyone has angels accompanying them, so one is also with company.

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@JewYid

9 months

@OUKosher Doritos (not just the Israeli ones)

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@JewYid

6 years

😂 Welcome to the Kosher Zone

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@thomasmannfacts

6 years

the snacks in the rest stop vending machines in Pennsylvania are like...made up brands?? am i in the twilight zone

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@JewYid

3 years

Duolingo Yiddish is coming out tomorrow April 6. I'm just glad that I spent zero time trying to monetize a Yiddish learning website of my own. And glad they didn't go with this flag

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@JewYid

5 years

Don't feel guilty about saying menorah 🕎 for what you use on #Chanukah Yiddish never said chanukkiah. Only menorah or chanukah-lomp (lamp)

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@JewYid

5 years

@hey_alma Pareve baked goods are never good. Not hamentaschen, not black and white cookies, just no

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@JewYid

11 months

Im done code switching. I sent an email to a non-frum Jewish coworker with Gut moed.

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@JewYid

2 years

I told someone I wouldn't be making a meeting in April for Passover. They changed the meeting time (which is not really what I wanted tbh), and this is how the Google Calendar change went out to everyone @JewWhoHasItAll

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@JewYid

3 years

You say chanukkiah. I say menorah. We are not the same.

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Modern Hebrew

Hey Alma

@hey_alma

4 years

What’s something that ISN’T Jewish but FEELS Jewish to you?

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@JewYid

9 months

Just flown over the Orthodox Jewish community in Boston: "🇵🇸 Harvard hates Jews"

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@JewYid

4 years

Hebrew: Hhhhh! Ths s s fnn!

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@maimonides_nutz

4 years

I made a meme

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@JewYid

2 years

Just hanging out

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@JewYid

3 years

I've never seen someone so happy with linguistics. English gh > Yiddish ch/kh

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@Hasidic_3

3 years

יואלי לעבאוויטש קימט אריין שטארק ווי אייביג. @Badchen

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@JewYid

5 years

High holiday seating charts are great. You finally learn the name of ppl you've been talking to for five years

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@JewYid

5 years

Learned my daughter's friends go around whispering "pajamas" as they pass people on Shabbos. Sounds like "good shabbos"

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@JewYid

4 years

Class action lawsuit against Ner Mitzvah for yom tov candles that last exactly 23.5 hours. Who's in?

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@JewYid

5 years

Do Chassidim ever have these discussions on the survival of Yiddish, or ever get invited to these talks?

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@IlanStavans

5 years

Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert in conversation on the survival of Yiddish:

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@JewYid

3 years

Yiddish, Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew

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@JewYid

6 months

@ElleryKlein People hate children

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@BrePWBZ

7 months

The Parks & Rec Dept. in #Arlington says residents are complaining about daycare children constantly using the parks. They're proposing daycares/preschools in town pay anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000 in fees to use them (money will be used to maintain parks) Thoughts? @wbz

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@JewYid

3 years

A non-Jewish guy said "Happy Saturday" to me walking back from shul. I liked that

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@JewYid

4 years

About 30% of the Yiddish letters I translate are from E. Europe to the US, 1898-1937, referencing the transfer of money-- "Thank you for the 10 dollars". "I haven't received it yet" "I hope you didn't enclose it in the letter itself" "You know how much I need it"...

The Associated Press

@AP

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Mexicans rely on the money emigrants send home from the U.S. But in one village, those remittances have precipitously. The reason? COVID-19.

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@JewYid

3 years

I'm intrigued by what my 7yo plans to write

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@JewYid

3 years

Do you know of a language (other than Hebrew or Yiddish) that has a word for the relationship between these circled people? As in, the woman on the left could say about the woman on the right: "She is my __________."

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@JewYid

5 years

I like how non-Jews think matzah is exotic.

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@JewYid

3 years

Going into the Judaica store and buying a zohar like it's inappropriate reading material, hoping no one sees

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@JewYid

4 years

My kid's rebbe sent out an email "Dikduk quiz". (grammar quiz) and I read it as Dybbuk quiz and got all excited

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@JewYid

7 years

Ladybug 🐞 in Yiddish is "Our Rabbi Moses's little cow" (moyshe rabeynus kiyele) משה־רבנוס קיִעלע Modern Hebrew took this as a calque from Yiddish. Yiddish prob. made this word up to counter other European languages' references to the bug as "Mary's beetle" #FunFact #Yiddish

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@JewYid

2 years

shvartse fraytog - Black Friday #Yiddish

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3 years

Kid, last night at the shabbos table: "Isn't tonight kristall nacht?" *record scratch* The Jewish education wires got crossed Kristall nacht ≠ nittel nacht

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@JewYid

5 years

Or should Yiddish @Duolingo use the flag of the Jewish autonomous region Birobidzhan, with Yiddish as an official language? 🌈✡ Things might get a little confusing

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@JewYid

2 years

המבין יבין

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@JewYid

6 years

Is there a Yiddish way of counting seconds? In America, we use one-Mississippi two-Mississippi In England, it's one-Piccadilly, two-Piccadilly In Germany, 21, 22, 23 (einundzwanzig, usw.) But Yiddish? One-lokshnkugl?

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@JewYid

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My rabbi just texted me after 11PM. Texting/Calling late at night is directly proportional to how Orthodox you are (which also has a direct relationship to how afraid of dogs you are)

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@JewYid

4 years

Jewish Blair Witch Project 📽

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walked in the forest yesterday and found a single burnt Challah bread in the middle of the woods

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@JewYid

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The Duolingo Yiddish effect: A whole swath of people are going to start taking Yiddish on Duolingo, with its Hungarian Yiddish pronunciation. These ppl will feed into academic Yiddish courses, with YIVO standard pronunciation, and ask: Why are we learning with YIVO standard?

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@JewYid

3 years

Yiddishe mamas gonna yiddishe mama

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@CNN

3 years

Ashton Kutcher says he sold his ticket on a Virgin Galactic flight into space because his wife, Mila Kunis, persuaded him that it wasn't a "smart family decision."

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@JewYid

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Hanukkah is in 24 days. Let's get this straight: 👏 "MENORAH" is perfectly fine 👏

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@JewYid

3 years

"Make a bracha out loud" where the word for out loud (hoyekh) is literally high #YiddishAd 🌿

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Jewish Space Laser

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German Jews used to have (still do have?) cabbage soup today Prayer today on #HoshanaRaba "kol mevaser" (in Hebrew) sounds like "Kohl mit Wasser" (cabbage with water)

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@JewYid

5 years

Duolingo Yiddish is at the phase where they are allowing voting on which Yiddish pronunciation to go forward with. Vote for Hassidic! @duolingo

Yiddish Dialects

The Yiddish for English speakers course on Duolingo is currently being developed. For the audio and pronunciation portions only, what dialect should we use? The descriptions of the various options...

docs.google.com

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@JewYid

3 years

So when is Duolingo Jewish Aramaic coming out? @bnuyaminim

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@JewYid

5 years

Yiddish @Duolingo is creating a symbol for Yiddish that I do not like. B/c the initiators couldn't make an easy "flag" for a non-Statist language, they found a random image online, posted it, and haven't changed it. Now you can buy "Yiddish flags" @ebay . We need to do better.

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@JewYid

3 years

The New Jew, speaking Yiddish. This is honestly probably what the IDF originally sounded like in the 1940s

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3 years

🇮🇱 — WATCH: Charedi IDF soldiers of the paratroop devision, training in Yiddish.

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@JewYid

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It took me 3.5 hours to gather the willpower to call someone on the phone. Then I had to leave a message. Now I'm plagued with a phone call at anytime. Like a temporal minefield, it's going to hit when I least expect it. Can't we all just agree to stop voice interactions?

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@JewYid

3 years

As @a_a_viswanath pointed out, it is strange how the media outlets are framing Meena Viswanath as a "secular" Yiddish-speaking Jew vs. her Chassidic team members who put together Duolingo Yiddish. Meena is Orthodox. Why is non-Chassidic Orthodox "secular"?

דאָס ייִדישע קול

@TheYiddishVoice

3 years

How a secular scholar and some NY Hasidic Jews set up Duolingo’s Yiddish course via @timesofisrael

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5 years

Mapping linguistic proximity of German 🇩🇪and Yiddish 💂‍♂️. This chart shows Yiddish is closer to German than Dutch is to German.

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@JewYid

5 years

Have you ever been asked if you speak "Jewish"? Were you offended?

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@JewYid

2 years

UPDATE: Super excited to announce that my Brighton synagogue received zoning approval with letters of support from 800 neighbors and strong letters and leadership from Congresswoman @AyannaPressley and Boston City Councilors @LizBreadon @ErinforBoston @juliaforboston @Ruthzee

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@JewYid

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it's difficult for me to speak about covid in Yiddish without saying coyvid

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@JewYid

5 years

"Anyone who can speak #Yiddish at home but chooses to speak English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese with Yiddish-speaking Jews is a traitor, an enemy, a gravedigger of our holy mother tongue."

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@vaybertaytsh

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Yiddishists: totally normal, not crazy people #yugntruf 1964

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@JewYid

5 years

I keep chalav yisrael

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@JewYid

4 years

Google does Mottel dirty "The Messiah is coming this very moment"

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@JewYid

5 years

Who called it Krav Maga and not Jew-jitsu?

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@JewYid

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Am I a Diasporist for thinking dreidels with a Shin are better than dreidels a Peh?

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@JewYid

4 years

Is that a....wait for it....dank meme? 🥁

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@JewYid

3 years

I often translate handwritten Yiddish first into 🇩🇪 in my head. I don't regularly print out a letter to work on it, but here you can see my thought process. Especially important with this #JudeoGerman letter from 1927

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@JewYid

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Good Shabbos. The stabbing of one of our Boston rabbis is scary, even more somehow to learn the assailant was a resident of our neighborhood. After the vigil today, seeing a crowd assembled of many non-Jewish neighbors, I know I can walk around Brighton tomorrow safely. Thank you