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  • But if the Reb didn't realize that saying nasty things about gay people in New York City -- especially in the wake of a gay student's jump off the GW and an attack on some young gay men that sure sounds like a hate crime -- is not good strategy for a candidate already known for a distinct lack of polish, then Levin committed what even less devout Jews call a goyische kop.

    Alfred Gingold: Bei Mir Bist Du Strange Alfred Gingold 2010

  • But if the Reb didn't realize that saying nasty things about gay people in New York City -- especially in the wake of a gay student's jump off the GW and an attack on some young gay men that sure sounds like a hate crime -- is not good strategy for a candidate already known for a distinct lack of polish, then Levin committed what even less devout Jews call a goyische kop.

    Alfred Gingold: Bei Mir Bist Du Strange Alfred Gingold 2010

  • But if the Reb didn't realize that saying nasty things about gay people in New York City -- especially in the wake of a gay student's jump off the GW and an attack on some young gay men that sure sounds like a hate crime -- is not good strategy for a candidate already known for a distinct lack of polish, then Levin committed what even less devout Jews call a goyische kop.

    Alfred Gingold: Bei Mir Bist Du Strange Alfred Gingold 2010

  • But if the Reb didn't realize that saying nasty things about gay people in New York City -- especially in the wake of a gay student's jump off the GW and an attack on some young gay men that sure sounds like a hate crime -- is not good strategy for a candidate already known for a distinct lack of polish, then Levin committed what even less devout Jews call a goyische kop.

    Alfred Gingold: Bei Mir Bist Du Strange Alfred Gingold 2010

  • A cold, crisp, crunchy sour pickle, like the kind your sandwich wants you to enjoy, not this limp goyische crap that acts as an afterthought at every heat-lamp-scalded lunch spot in the city.

    We Battle Then We Feast | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • I felt like The Wicked Child at the Seder last night, but, being a good goyische guest, I kept my smarty-pants moyl shut when someone talked about the inspiring "true" story about the quilts that mapped the way to the North for enslaved African Americans before the Civil War.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Roger Sutton 2009

  • I felt like The Wicked Child at the Seder last night, but, being a good goyische guest, I kept my smarty-pants moyl shut when someone talked about the inspiring "true" story about the quilts that mapped the way to the North for enslaved African Americans before the Civil War.

    I felt like The Wicked Child Roger Sutton 2009

  • In the picture, he was grinning like a goyische politician and the actress?

    Listening to amazing people talk about themselves... James Lloyd Davis 2011

  • I will say only that he is not as solitary a figure as we might think: the film Baby Boom happened to drift by on television recently, and there was that most goyische of leading men, Sam of the craggy weatherbeaten features Shepherd, throwing himself at Diane Keaton, who goes accommodatingly limp at his unsolicited and rather overbearing kiss.

    The Philip Roth Reader: Both Of The Great American Pastimes 2010

  • I will say only that he is not as solitary a figure as we might think: the film Baby Boom happened to drift by on television recently, and there was that most goyische of leading men, Sam of the craggy weatherbeaten features Shepherd, throwing himself at Diane Keaton, who goes accommodatingly limp at his unsolicited and rather overbearing kiss.

    Karen Stabiner: The Philip Roth Reader: Both Of The Great American Pastimes 2010

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