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They also note smaller kishkes issues: Trump refused to appoint a liaison to the Jewish community, as most of his predecessors have done; he has yet to fill the position of special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, despite repeated appeals by Jewish activists; he did not host a White House Passover seder or Jewish Heritage Month reception and, in general, is not hospitable to Jewish organizational leaders.

And she'll be asking them what it's like living and working as a Jew in Hollywood, where they seek our spirituality, where they seek out Jewish delis, and how they maintain a sense of strong sense cultural identity (or don't) in a business thatwhile heavily Jewish in its history and ranks, isn't always in its kishkes.

Though a critic of the Israeli show, Moran Sharir of the newspaper Haaretz admitted that the program had a powerful impact: using the Yiddish word for guts, he wrote that Prisoners of War "talks to the audience's kishkes." The same could be said for Homeland.

When one of his commentaries on Israel struck me in the kishkes in a good way, touching also my emotions, I somehow gathered up enough nerve to write a note to his e-mail address asking him for permission to reprint his article (at a somewhat later date) for Midstream readers worldwide.

This is shown when Manny reflects that the "high" European culture he has left behind for America does not satisfy him either: "The 9th Symphony, or Tristan, or whatever else there may be--without an ear of skin and meat they're nothing, and stuffed kishkes console the ...

The response to the above slogan was, "But in your guts, you know he's nuts." Similarly, if we have an intuition, we have a "gut feeling." My grandmother would say you know it in your kishkes (innards).

Who hasn't felt his kishkes churn when speaking in public?

Till the day she died--perhaps freeing him to start his Work, already--Proust's doting, refined Jewish mother was updated on the state of his kishkes, in clinical detail.

Having said this, though, I can only admit that the line of text burned into my memory is dialogue from the narrative itself: "Shlep nur aroys fun der fidl yidishe kishkes."