Friday, May 28, 2010

Israeli judge unfamiliar with word "shmooze"



The article the heading links to is about Olmert and the case in question is newsworthy enough in itself. There just seemed to me to be something chilling about this secular, shaven-headed Israeli judge saying the following words:

Turning to Korb, he added, “Tell me one fact that she knows. I have learned one thing from her testimony, the word ‘schmooze.’”

Could his honour really have been so isolated from the Jewish hoi-poloi his entire life as to have never heard the word "schmooze" before?

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