Marjorie is a retired business educator and free-lance writer who resides in Syosset, New York. Articles of hers have appeared in The New York Times, Smart Money Magazine, Playbill Magazine, Reunions Magazine, The National Business Employment Weekly, The Jewish Press, Long Island Jewish World, GantsehMegillah.com,  and many other…

HAS ANYONE EVER TOLD YOU…

  .  The Yiddish expression, “Zai shtimen vi a katz un a hunt” means “They agree like cat and dog”?

  .  Comic Adam Sandler, has a bulldog named “Matzoball”?

  .  There’s a website, http://www.m-o-D-t.com, which stands for “member of the Dog tribe”?

  .  “Bark Mitzvahs” are being held and some synagogues have begun to hold annual “Blessings of the Animals” to coicide with the reading of the story of Noah’s Ark?

*The Yiddish word for name is “nomen”

I have a new “eynikl”/“ainikel” (grandchild) and his name is Preston Matthew.  This is our fifth grandchild, the first child for our son,…