What is Yentagon?
1.
Your local Jewish community services building. Etymology: Yiddish word: Yenta (n./v. A gossip, or busybody), AND Pentagon: n. That big building in DC.
These buildings often contain many bustling agencies with oddly-acronymed names and people busily shuffling about within them.
And, oy, word spreads FAST...
"There's a bake-sale telethon street-fair this Sunday at the Yentagon. You going?"
"Nu, sure. I heard there might even be a
fish taouk stand!
