"Jewish-flavored"

[Tony Glaser]

>At 3:47 PM -0500 2/22/01, Philip E. Cleary wrote:
>>While browsing through the personal ads in the classified section of the
>>latest edition of "Harvard Magazine," I saw a couple of ads in which people
>>referred to themselves as "Jewish-flavored," an expression that is new and
>>somewhat unclear to me.
>>
>>Is this (a) merely a humorous way of saying "Jewish" - my first thought; (b)
>>a way of saying that one is Jewish but not observant - my second thought; or
>>(c) something else?
>>
>e.g.
>Someone who's half- (or between 0% and 100%) Jewish?
>Someone who doesn't taste like pork/seafood?
>
>(cf. Jonathan Miller:  "I'm not a Jew--I'm Jew-ISH.  I don't go the
>whole hog.")
>
>larry

A perusal of http://www.halfjew.com/ might help with this a bit!

Tony Glaser