nachas

I learned a new word last fall, "nachas", from my friend at Newmark's Door.

Nachas: Fall Baseball 2007 version 2007

I learned a new word last fall, "nachas", from my friend at Newmark's Door.

Archive 2007-11-01 2007

There was a lot of nachas -- pride -- out of the whole concert and CD.

Tom Teicholz: Celebrate a Fantastic Klezmatic Hanukkah Tom Teicholz 2011

But the elder Kristol's misgivings were buried beneath the nachas — that is, a Jewish parent's pride in his children.

The Return of the Neocons 2010

Also, thankfully, Neil Diamond's Cherry Cherry Christmas includes a version of "The Chanukah Song" that should give that mensch Adam Sandler a whole lot of nachas.

David Wild: The Perfect Semitic Storm: Five Reasons Everybody Should Buy the New Christmas Albums by Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan And Barry Manilow This Season 2009

I got nachas reading about you in The Times last Sunday!

She's Mayoress of Tent City! 2009

And, of course, he went to law school and achieved one of the Jewish mother's iconic (if a Jewish mother can be described with a Christian metaphor) kvells of nachas: "My son the lawyer."

Adam Hanft: Barack Obama - The First Jewish Presidential Nominee 2008

Our son will be Bar Mitzvahed this Spring and both of his mothers will be there to honor him. the nachas we share about our children and our marriage is no different than my heterosexual brother or sister.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Gays as the New Religious Bogeyman 2008

And tomorrow, such nachas, which has nothing to do with torillas or cheese.

- ericcoleman 2008

There was, you might say -- at least if you were an aging Jewish rock critic like me -- a whole lot of nachas going on.

David Wild: How You Can Heal Our Troubled Economy: Buy My Book, Bitches 2008