The close knit association of Jews in the various professions who assist other Jews navigate their various industries, often doing the work for free or extremely reduced cost.
1. There was a two year wait list to get my kid to see a pediatric neurologist so I hit up The Kosher Nostra and we now have an appointment next week.
2. I haven’t file my taxes in five years, I’m getting a visit from the IRS, I need an accountant and an taxlawyer, my Rabbi said that he would contact the Kosher Nostra on my behalf to arrange people to help me.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)