Andrew Pollack wrote:
> But what's frummer? Why do you assume nonJews or exJews (like me)
> know, or should need to know, Yiddish or religious Jewish expressions?


is Yiddish verboten here on Marxmail? i pick up words i don't know on
marxmail every day ....

    Frummer is a Yiddish adjective that means "more Orthodox"...in other
    words, more religious (in any religion) than others.

    Oy, my boychik thinks he's frummer than I am just because he's had
    his bar mitzvah.

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frummer


Les


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