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Among the most "heimish" of women in New York, Kenner and Schecter can invite me anytime.
Regina Weinreich: D'Jew?: Woody Allen, Ruth Gruber, Gertrude Berg, and the Jews of Eastern Europe Regina Weinreich 2010
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Among the most "heimish" of women in New York, Kenner and Schecter can invite me anytime.
Regina Weinreich: D'Jew?: Woody Allen, Ruth Gruber, Gertrude Berg, and the Jews of Eastern Europe Regina Weinreich 2010
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Another heimish woman, Gertrude Berg, a pioneer in the world of television sit-coms, is back.
Regina Weinreich: D'Jew?: Woody Allen, Ruth Gruber, Gertrude Berg, and the Jews of Eastern Europe Regina Weinreich 2010
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Another heimish woman, Gertrude Berg, a pioneer in the world of television sit-coms, is back.
Regina Weinreich: D'Jew?: Woody Allen, Ruth Gruber, Gertrude Berg, and the Jews of Eastern Europe Regina Weinreich 2010
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Contrast and compare the tone and opinions expressed in posts # 47 and 61 (heimish in bp) with the one made by Trumpeldor on December 16th, 2009 9: 34pm.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Contrast and compare the tone and opinions expressed in posts # 47 and 61 (heimish in bp) with the one made by Trumpeldor on December 16th, 2009 9: 34pm. phil
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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But you wish for more warmth, a heimish-je ne sais quoi quality in Jewish family life that is missing and necessary to make this batter leaven and rise.
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Betsy's is a nice heimish coffeehouse; I recommend it (though it's probably not a good place to meet Members Of The Opposite Sex.)
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It is undoubtedly the crisp's heimish (Yiddish for "homey" or "comfortable") nature that makes it a Shabbat dinner favorite, served either as a dessert or during the meal as an alternative to kugel.
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Not to mention chassidm and even rebbes associated with even more unsavory things, so that there has to be glatt food in prison for the heimish criminals, and so on.
Your Moral Leader 2008
bestiary commented on the word heimish
adj: homey; cozy and unpretentious (from yiddish heymish)
July 26, 2008