blend (+ reclamation) of the season: "Heebster"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Dec 24 19:00:45 UTC 2011


Hip young Jews embrace the 'heebster' sensibility with shared sense of irrelevance

--subhead from today's Washington Post, article by Emily Wax; the article begins:

Jason Feldman's Star and Shamrock, a Jewish-Irish tavern in Washington's H Street corridor, has to be the only bar in the District
where battery-operated menorahs are on each table, fried matzoh balls are served with He'Brew drafts,…

LH

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