Broiges is Jewish for "angry" or "upset." Most Jewish families have broiges. Broiges defines your relationship with cousins you haven't spoken to for 20 years because they seated you at the table next to the kitchens at their son's barmitzvah.
It often denotes a pent-up, inexpressible, unresolvable rage or frustration, which may have originally arisen from some innocent misunderstanding.
At a communal level, broiges is a subject of endless interest. Who's upset with whom, and why, is a staple of Jewish politics.
Broiges is the pornography of the Jewish community: it elicits our fascination and sells newspapers as only exposed flesh can in the non-Jewish world.
