nickidewbear's definitions

Karaite

One who is a Jew who subscribes only to the Tanakh ("Old Testament"), and to few or none of the various Talmudim, midrashim, gemerot, or other Pharisaical additions to the Jewish Scriptures.

Karaites will subscribe only to the various Pharisaical additions to Tanakh as optional and as long as they don't contradict or otherwise go against Tanakh.

by Nickidewbear January 9, 2013

Yeshu

Variant of "Yeshua" or "Yushke" used in Hebrew- or Yiddish-speaking and other Jewish communities. Sometimes derogatory, "Yeshu" is usually just used by Non-Messianic Jews who just don't know better.

The derogatory use of "Yeshu" is an acronym to refer specifically to the Messianic Jewish (Christian) and historical figure Yeshua in terms of "Yemach shemo uv'zichrono"-- literally, "May his name and memory be wiped out."

by Nickidewbear August 22, 2011

nature bath

When one gets caught out in a rainstorm and ends up drenched—often due to a foolish action, such as being drunk or high.

Steve: What’s he doing?
Eve: He’s face down, taking a bath.
Steve: He what?
Eve: He’s taking a nature bath.
Steve: Where is he?!
Eve: Out on the corner at Park and Fifth.
Steve: He’s going to catch pneumonia. *facepalm*

by Nickidewbear December 4, 2020

Novak

A Slavic and Ashkenazic Jewish surname meaning "new" (e.g., "Novy"), "Nov-ak" could also be a play on "Nov akh" or "frutiful brother" (Hebrew).

Bearers of the "Novak" surname include actress Kim Novak (who took "Novak" as her stagename), columnist and cancer victim Robert Novak, the psychotic astronaut and honorably-discharged Navy servicewoman Lisa Nowak, and Marysia "Maria" Novakova Rusnakova (1855-c. 1907) -- who was married to Jakub Rusnak (a member of the late Kosice, Slovakia Jewish Rusnaks) and was the paternal grandmother of Sgt. and Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander Carl Stephen Rusnak (January 2, 1922 - November 7, 1999; US Army, WW2, European Theater, honorably discharged after the war). By the way, Maria's relative Leopold Novak was an early victim of the Holocaust in then-Czechoslovakian Zlata Idka: he was murdered in a then-Aranydka mine in 1936.

by Nickidewbear August 22, 2011

WABC Radio

WABC Radio is one of New York City's oldest talk radio and news radio stations.

Talk radio hosts who have shows on WABC Radio include Michael Savage, Pat Kiernan, Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby (two of the original WABC Radio hosts), Don Imus, and Geraldo Rivera.

by Nickidewbear March 6, 2014

Froy

Yiddish equivalent to German "Frau"- "woman".

That meshugah froy has chutzpah: she's no good Jewish girl. She's a shiske corva.

by Nickidewbear July 9, 2011

Spanish Inquisition

An awful time in Jewish and general history, the Spanish Inquisition was commenced by Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand of Spain. Jews were systematically and specifically persecuted, forced either to convert to Roman Catholicism or be killed by the monarchy.

The Spanish Inquisition may have affected Christopher Columbus to be quiet about his own Jewish heritage.

by Nickidewbear November 25, 2011