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Kvetch is a Yiddish word for complain, and when I started it, it was a very simple post box, a lot like Twitter now where you just come and you could complain, you could write like "this happened to me today," and kind of send it off into one of a few groups.
developerFusion - content James Crowley 2010
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Kvetch is like a Shlep or farKlempt or Chutzpa or Shtick they are unique words that have unique meanings, however a Shiksa not from NY may not have heard of them
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And lastly, Wendy at Ink-Drenched Kvetch has a great post today about all this too:
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The sequel to Nosh, Davin, Kvell is Shtup, Schluff, Kvetch (Sex, Sleep, Complain), a portrayal of Leeba's subsequent marriage to Roni.
Angela Himsel: Nosh, Davin, Kvell, or Eat, Pray, Love, the Upper West Side Way 2010
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"Buy multiple copies of Ken Krimstein's Kvetch as Kvetch Can to pass out at Hanukkah."
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Film Kvetch that's scary with the whole falling on his head and neck thing.
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Like Mr. Burston, I had thought of religion as something loving, never quite realizing how determined many Jews are to disassociate with non-Jews and keep their isolation entrenched, (read "Born to Kvetch" by Michael Wex).
Carol Smaldino: A Reflection for the Jewish New Year: The Chaos We All Share 2010
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Kvetch all you want about fund raising - we financed Obama's campaign = not the lobbyists, not the big companies - us.
Obama Going Up On The Air In Georgia, North Dakota, And ... Arizona! 2009
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Esther Kustanowitz tweeted in realtime and then blogged after at My Urban Kvetch about Jumpstart's presentation of the key findings at the LA Federation, where she compared institutional resistance to change with "GVH (graft-vs. -host) disease, when a transplant patient's body treats the transplanted tissue as enemy cells and begins destroying the very organ that may have been its salvation" (Jumpstart's New Jewish Organizations Survey: Tweeting and Reflecting).
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