The Schlep is working...thank you Bubbes and Zaydes [View All]

The Schlep is working...thank you Bubbes and Zaydes

by Deoliver47
Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 06:22:17 AM PDT

I was watching CNN American Morning while drinking my coffee, and they just aired a piece Schlepping to Florida following a young write Mike Bender's visit to his grandparents on the Great Schlep.

I'm not Jewish. But oddly enough, growing up in an orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Crown Heights Brooklyn, in my grandparents house in the late 40's and early 50's, I knew almost no people who were gentiles, other than family members and a few non-Jewish friends of my parents. All my play pals spoke both Yiddish and Hebrew, and I even went to Hebrew day school as a little kid. I, like my friends called my grandparents Bubbe and Zayde - though I got the pronunciation wrong and for the rest of my life my grandmother was "Bobby" and my granddad was "JaJa".

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Comedian {sic} Jackie Mason has attacked Sarah Silverman on this, and has been answered by yet another comic:

Maron v Seder: Sam Seder's rebuttal of Jackie Mason's rebuttal of Sarah Silverman's The Great Schlep

More:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/14/8438/6623