The word yenta never meant a busybody or gossip in Yiddish.
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I owe it all to Kim Hastreiter, who I now call my yenta.
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In fact, Mr. Sherak has quite the track record as a professional yenta.
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Is there a risk that Red Yenta can feel like an echo chamber?
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Like Yenta, she's a loving reflection of some of our best and worst traits.
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Maybe being a yenta isn't something to be celebrated, but it is really, really fun.
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Before Red Yenta, Brostoff had stumbled on a Facebook page called "OKComrade," an OkCupid knockoff.
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"It's a match!" signs serve as a tears-of-joy "thank you" to the couple's digital yenta.
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She refers to the shop as a "yenta center," and stops in to check up on other customers.
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In January, they created Red Yenta , a Twitter account dedicated to matching socialists around the country for dates.
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In an interview with Politico, Nunberg called Trump a "yenta," a Yiddish word for a woman who enjoys gossip.
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But if she seems more like a friend or wingwoman than a matchmaking yenta, that's because it's exactly what she intended.
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Eddie spent a lot of time denying he and Liz were having an affair, but the Yenta Law judges knew better.
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The Vogue EIC has been playing yenta, in a style context, for Clinton, per BoF (and as The Cut pointed out, too).
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"Carol wasn't a Jewish yenta, of course, and they rewrote and rewrote and rewrote to tailor it to her," Mr. Hartman said.
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He is in fact the soul of the 18th-century Enlightenment in the body of a 21st-century Yorkshire yenta wearing bicycle clips.
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Yenta is a stereotype, of course — the kind of busybody who knows all the gossip first and needs to meddle in everything— but she's our stereotype.
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Yenta A busybody/gossip Extra credit: You could use the Yiddish word kokhlefel (literally meaning a cooking spoon) to mean a person who mixes in/a busybody.
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Had Yenta Law been in place they would have been dragged out of the theater by their tone-deaf ears and shipped directly to Bedford Hills Correctional.
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And while the officious yenta in residence, the nattering Turnbo (Michael Potts), may seem like an old-womanish gossip, he's the one who's fast to pull a gun.
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Yenta is also a woman's name, famously the name of a comic strip character in The Forward who was a gossip as well as the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof.
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But if — when — one of them has to leave alone, let us hope that whoever is left behind will be taken care of again by the providential yenta that is Assigned Seating.
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If all your friends are single, and tend to gripe about how hard is to meet someone, it can be very tempting to want to put on your Yenta cap and get involved.
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She mocked what she called castmate Jill Zarin's yenta-like antics and Cher-style outfits and Ramona Singer's "Ramonics," but was also willing to poke fun at her own neuroses and show a more introspective side.
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I have the greatest respect for individual freedom, but I prefer the legal system I grew up with in the Catskills, Yenta Law, which is best exemplified in the landmark 1950s Eddie Dumps Debbie for Liz case.
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DIANA KLEBANOW QUEENS ♦ To the Editor: In his excellent review of Evan Thomas's "First," Jeffrey Toobin repeats Justice O'Connor's self-description as "the Yenta of Paradise Valley," which was intended as a reference to her matchmaking skills.
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But for all the hand-wringing, this kind of dating isn't any more transactional than it was back when suitors paid women family-supervised visits or parents sought out a yenta to introduce their children at a synagogue mixer.
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In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, we've put together a list celebrating those achievements, and exploring the ways in which characters from Fiddler on the Roof's Yenta to the Broad City girls have shaped our understanding of what Jewish women look, sound, and act like.
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Yenta, Fiddler On The Roof (1970) Played by: Molly Picon Though technically Fiddler on The Roof takes place in Ukraine, not the United States, it's undeniably central to Ashkenazi Jewish American identity, an example of parents grappling with their more progressive children's tenuous connections to longstanding traditions as they choose their own paths through life.
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A year after marrying Rebbetzin Yenta, Rabbi Lapidos traveled to Salant where his main teacher was Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Braude. He also began a life-long student-colleagueTalmid-Chaver of the decade-older Rabbi Yisroel Salanter.
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McDonell was born and raised in Manhattan, New York, and attended boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from New York University. His mother, Joanie, who is of Jewish descent,Nate Bloom (13 May 2011), "Royal yenta, Unlikely couple news, From Prom to Shadows", J. The Jewish News of Northern California. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
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Fran Drescher attributed the film's humor to the "juxtaposition of her colorful American character onto a dark, oppressive- looking castle". According to film critic Emanuel Levy, the film personifies a "culture clash of Western democracy vs. rigid and inefficient communism" through Joy and Boris. Levy wrote that Joy pushes Slovetzia into "the liberal, technologically advanced 21st century", and The Baltimore Sun's Stephen Hunter characterized her as the "very spirit of liberalism" and the "distilled essence of yenta".
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Assays exceeding 1 ounce of gold per ton have been obtained from three of these areas, and selected quartz- arsenopyrite vein material from one prospect assayed about of gold per ton.Bruce L. Reed and others (1979) The Alaskan Mineral Resource Assessment Program; Background Information to Accompany Folio of Geologic and Mineral Resource Maps of the Talkeetna Quadrangle, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Circular 775.US Geological Survey, Bulletin 520, p.174-200.Stephen Reid Capps (1913) The Yenta District, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Bulletin 534, p.75.
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His father, Rabbi Tzvi Lapidos, was a wealthy scholar who arranged that the 13 year old Alexander Moshe, whose in-person high-level interaction with many of the famous rabbis of that era were well known, should marry the only daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Yanova, a suburb of Kovna, Shimon Shushitzky. Over time Yenta and Alexander Moshe Lapidos had three daughters. After the death of Rabbi Lapidos' first wife, he married a second time. With this wife, Gruna, he had a son and 3 more daughters.
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While touring and recording as lead guitarist of Circa Survive, Frangicetto began writing songs that "were initially brought into consideration for inclusion on Circa Survive albums". Colin soon discovered that the material he was creating on his own "needed a different outlet." After five years of writing and recording in "hotel rooms, tour buses, and apartments" Colin found himself with enough material to release a full-length studio album under the name Psychic Babble. The album, titled My Brother’s Ears/My Sister's Eyes, was released on August 18 under Yenta Records and features Colin on every instrument including vocals, guitar, drums, and bass.
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Nouns for people who are associated with intrusive behavior include snooper, interferer, interrupter, intruder, interposer, invader, intervener, intervenist, interventionist, pryer, stickybeak, gatecrasher, interloper, peeping tom, persona non grata, encroacher, backseat driver, kibitzer, meddler, nosy parker, marplot, gossipmonger and yenta. There are also some more derisive terms such as buttinsky or busybody.OneLook Dictionary Search retrieved 28 October 2013 Intrusiveness can come at the hands of a political administration where it may be described as a nanny state or mass surveillance, but can also be derived from oneself or by other individuals such as family members, friends, associates or strangers.Maximum Potential an American Possibility - Page 2, Richard Monts 2010Richard hanley, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating p 91, 2013 Such an occurrence may culminate into feelings of embarrassment.
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