Baba is grandfather in (Judeo) Arabic, Baba is grandmother in Russian, Bube/Bobe is grandmother in Yiddish ( Read more... )

It feels like Imamother got me all psyched up and I was wrong to fear the post camp days so much ( Read more... )

Do your kids especially enjoy shows you watched when expecting ( Read more... )

• 17:30:48: So late on updates... if you're not on FB you have missed my Switzerland trip and my Italy trip! here they are!
• 17:34:55: Just gpt into the train alteady fed up of people pushing & yellin in german lol
• 17:36:15: Controleur a tronche deSS, voisins bruyants detraques qui bouffent de la daube moisie, repas qui naura pas l air bien different ( Read more... )

• 18:43:08: Changed her FB profile for the new!
• 18:44:11: My husband is a tzadik. ♥
• 18:45:11: Hebrew: shadhanit - Yiddish: shadchente - Ladino/judeo spanish: casamentera - judeo arabic ???
• 18:45:35: my ♥ is spoiling me!!
• 18:46:04: TEHILIM Masha Aaron bat Bluma Batya For a friend's mother (name is correct!)

• 00:33:36: Nice, patient, compassionate, sympathizing doctors... do they still exist, or did selection on maths exams kill the real spirit?
• 00:33:57: This month of December is the coldest since 1933...
• 00:36:31: Once upon a time I read a book a week... my great grandmother read a book a day or almost... yeridas hadoros!!
• 00:36:39: It's official, Mati ( Read more... )

• 12:44:45: Nittel: shikko iz o, trinko miz o (courtesy of my grandfather)
• 12:45:58: Thanks to those who trust me for their shidduch :D
• 12:46:12: "The flamingos kiss because they are married", Mati
• 12:47:12: Mati plays with the sthetoscope... craziest is that she can use it!
• 12:47:30: They have no salt for the snow in my parents' town... shame!!!

• 13:47:42: Shana gave birth to 6 babies, 3 dead, one very sickly :(
• 16:11:46: Shana has a blocked baby inside, argh! IYH it will go out
• 16:29:11: Mati, about a song: "Is it Yiddish? Is it Ladino? Is it Judeo Italian? No, then I don't want"
• 18:07:02: Mati : "I'm a big gal now, I can get up (at night) to bottlefeed the rat baby".
• 22:40:27: shana had ten ( Read more... )

 In a place where more chassidim speak Judeo-Arabic than Yiddish and where frum Ashkenazim are what, 5/10% of the frum? THIS is adorable for us but pushing the envelop!


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But it's not.

It's the story of a Sefardi man whose mother is called Ledicia. She passes, and he wants to name a child after her. So he names his next daughter... Eidel (the Yiddish equivalent). When asked why exactly, he answered "because I wanted her to have a Hebrew name".

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