New "-dar" word?

[Alice Faber]

Dennis Baron said:
>yeah, jewdar is definitely old business, and it involves a lot more
>than spotting who doesn't put up  lights on the porch after
>thanksgiving.

When I was an undergraduate, in the early 70s, many of my friends
were indeed concerned with determining who of our acquaintances was
Jewish and who was not. But the *term* "jewdar" wasn't used for the
ability to suss this out. We did, on the other hand, use the
abbreviation MOT (Member Of the Tribe) to refer to fellow Jews.
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