PROVERB: “A tavern can’t corrupt a good man, and a synagogue can’t reform a bad one. - Leo Rosten

Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.

The sense of differentiation is so acute in Yiddish that a word like, say, paskudnyak has no peer in any language I know for the vocal delineation of a nasty character. And Yiddish coins new names with ease for new personality types: a nudnik is a pest; a phudnik is a nudnik with a Ph.D.

God, I know, will provide,” sighed one disconsolate Jew. “I only wish He would provide until He provides.