Newspapers and the economy

neverdespairgirl

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

Ah, a 'shabbas-goyim' as they are known. I got loads of money for doing stuff like this (and babysitting for families with loads of children) as a minority gentile kid in a Jewish area of London.

I think (although I could be wrong) that "goyim" is the plural, and one person is a "Shabbas goy". Certainly, "-im" is the standard plural in Hebrew.

"Shabbas" is Yiddish, "Shabbat" is Hebrew.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Some of OH's relatives weren't exactly over the moon either - especially his Grandpa. His Granny wasn't that happy either, muttering the odd "Doing Hitler's work for him" to OH.

Weirdly, with exceptions of course, I have found that the more religious of my 'new' family are th most accepting. They like I make an effort and I think they have accepted the difference as Jew/non-Jew where as the least observate most liberated/non-pratising, feel a difference but they are not prepared to label it as that, so it sits less comfortably with some of them.