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Tsuris at Brandeis: Orthodox students say school ad calling itself 'anything but Orthodox' is some chazzerai

By adamg on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 8:55am

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports Orthodox students at the heavily Jewish Waltham university are verklempt at what they consider a punch in the kishkes, a furshlugginer two-page school ad, in the Sunday Times magazine, no less, headlined "Brandeis was founded by Jews. But it's anything but orthodox." The school responded that if only the students would read the whole megillah, they'd see it was just a light-hearted attempt to show the school's roots come from the totality of the Jewish mishpocha.

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Comments

By Turalura Lipschitz on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 9:07am.

We play football,
We play soccer,
We keep matzo in our locker,
Y - E - S - H - I - V - A,
Yeshiva, Yeshiva,
Yay! Yay! Yay!

By adamg on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 10:29am.

As an alumnus, I'm proud of the fact the Brandeis football team has gone undefeated since 1960.

By Kaz on Sun, 07/02/2023 - 8:42pm.

Has BU beat by 37 years.

By Bob Leponge on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 9:08am.

I have long wondered whether that word is real Yiddish or if it came from the editorial desk of 1970s Mad Magazine. Which threw a lot of real Yiddish into the mix, but also made up words as needed.

By Will LaTulippe on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 9:17am.

What a cockamamie accusation.

By xyz on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 3:14pm.

Seriously, just complete mishegoss.

By anon on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 9:27am.

when muttering to each other

By James Osterberg on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 11:04am.

I always wondered what he and the Asheton brothers were muttering to each other off mic during their concerts.

By jmeltzer on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 8:57am.

if he could call his band "The Stooges".

Moe said "sure, but don't use _Three_ Stooges, that's our trademark."

By CopleyScott17 on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 11:58am.

My grandmother loved that one!

By jmeltzer on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 12:41pm.

1950s Mad. Harvey Kurtzman era.

And "furschlugginer" as "very big" comes from Donald Knuth's "The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures". (What ever happened to that boy?)

By xyz on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 3:16pm.

He did OK for himself, went into printing if I understand correctly.

By Cleary Squared on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 6:09am.

He invented TeX, a mathematical typesetting program, wrote extensive computer algorithms that saved a lot of computer time, and sent $2.56 checks to people who found errors in his books.

By xyz on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 7:48am.

Technically Knuth invented TeX, which Leslie Lamport (and many others presumably) expanded into LaTeX.

By Cleary Squared on Sun, 07/02/2023 - 4:54pm.

I thought LaTeX came first, but you're right, it was TeX that came first. I've updated my post.

By jmeltzer on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 8:44am.

for something he wrote at age 15.

By jmeltzer on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 8:50am.

it was Knuth's Westinghouse Science Prize entry, and he got "honorable mention".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdKV_ezbFp8

By ruthling on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 9:16am.

delightful writing!

By Will LaTulippe on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 9:16am.

A crossword with what I believe has "tsuris" as an answer, which I didn't know until I read this headline.

By BostonDog on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 9:28am.

That's exactly how my parents would have explained the story.

By ScottB on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 11:20am.

To me.

By xyz on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 3:18pm.

Personally I think a little self-deprecating humor is a very Jewish thing indeed. But that's just my opinion. Let's get two other Jewish people in here and review the four opinions we'll then have available.

By jmeltzer on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 8:42am.

There's God's too. (But he's wrong.)