My mother, may she rest in peace, would have called this a shanda, the Yiddish word for a shame, something you're not proud of and that you'd rather your neighbor doesn't find out. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The leader of American Zionism in that period was Abba Hillel Silver, a Republican (a "shanda" for a Rabbi!), and as militant and power oriented a Jew as anyone in Begin's cabinet. ❋ Fink, Robert (1982)
The Yiddish phrase was "a shanda fur die goyim," which translates more or less into "a scandal for the non-Jews." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Madoff wasn't just a shanda to the goyim, of course. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Rand (nee Alysa Rosenbaum -- shanda fer de Goyyim!) used every inch of more than a thousand pages to tell the mind - and soul-crushing story of Dagny Taggart, the beautiful and willful railroad heiress who blah blah blah never mind. ❋ Unknown (2009)
“A shanda for a rabbi not to be married,” one woman says. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Or as we Jews would say, Stop being a shanda for the goyim. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It was a shanda for that guy to be walking and talking with Natalie Portman. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
All the other game companies in Korea and China (shanda, netease, webzen, etc) have since adopted this method and supply ACU (average concurrent), PCU, ARPUH, and active accounts (those active in the last 3 months). ❋ Unknown (2006)
Such a shanda, your forebears must be plotzing in their graves. ❋ Unknown (2006)
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"No war in our name, it's a shanda, it's a shame," they recited over and over. ❋ Unknown (2004)
AL FRANKEN, "THE AL FRANKEN SHOW," AIR AMERICA RADIO: Well, I think it's, you know, a shanda (ph) for the glam, in a way. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And I would start screaming at the council saying, "shanda, shanda, bobanda, banana, fana, fofanda, we need money for the arts." ❋ Unknown (2004)
And even though she is the age she is, my grandmother blushed and said, Sha! a shanda far die kinder, a remark I had heard many times before Grandma and Grandpa moved to Century Village. ❋ E. L. Konigsburg (1996)
"This is a shanda," said Hailer, using the Yiddish word for "shame." ❋ Unknown (2012)
But to continue this way, to continue the occupation, the settlements, the stealing of land, the starving of children - it is a shanda, a disgrace. ❋ Emilylhauser (2010)
It is an absolute shanda that you are a former director of the US Holocaust Museum with such extraordinary ignorance. ❋ Unknown (2010)
