What is yiddish for matchmaker

Right now, there is an awesome organization called Shabbat. When you're talking about a dating website, SawYouAtSinai is for more religious Jews, and they don't search for themselves. Matchmakers only search for them. But something like JDate is a search engine like any other matchmaking website, and a person can go on themselves. So really, a person is doing the matchmaking themselves. I seem to think what's missing is the mentoring piece. Skip to main content.

Idania Improta Explainer. Is kerfuffle a Yiddish word? Kerfuffle means "disturbance or fuss," often describing a situation that's received more attention than it deserves. Lavon Bretal Explainer. What does Goish mean? Armelinda Kysel Pundit. What does Pupik mean in Yiddish? This is the case with Polish, which has the word "popik" for navel. Yiddish adopted "popik" from the Polish, Hebrew in turn adopted it as " pupik " and this is the word used by most Israelis to describe their bellybutton today.

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Out stepped a statuesque blonde, who glided into the building next door. Julia and the others burst out laughing. While the blonde was indeed Nicole Kidman she and Tom split soon afterward , Nicole was no yenta. A lithe and icy gentile, she was as far from a yenta as anyone could be. But to Jackie Mason, if you were a woman, you were a yenta.

For Julia and me, this sparked a two-decade debate about yentas. Who, exactly, is a yenta these days? Over time, Yentl became yente or yenta, but the name Yentl never disappeared. Papa can you see me? Kovner about a gossipmongering wife named Yente Telebunde. The meddlesome matchmaker was named Yente , and the word took on the colloquial meaning of both busybody and matchmaker.

So yentas are the friends who try guessing our paycheck down to the cent, announce their own business — and ours — to a packed subway train, and insist on setting us up with their broke brothers. But while yentas vary widely in age, they appear to be less diverse in gender.