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"I still can't taste the nafka minah between Coke and Pepsi."
Lo naim means more than "unpleasant" and has no exact English equivalent.
In addition to meaning “thus”, ken also means valid.
A siman is a mark, sign or omen. The root is the verb soom, which means to put or place and so also to mark or distinguish.
In Yiddish, klezmer denotes the musician; however it derives from the Hebrew, kli zemer, which means musical instrument.
The Cardo was the main shopping street in Roman Jerusalem.
Sprauncy (pronounced "shprauncy") is one of those unusual Jewish words that appears to be a genuinely original invention of British Jews.
Nachamu is the name given to the Shabbat after Tishah b'Av.
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