What is Yentagon?
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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!
Random Words:
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A woman in the 1800's who started the first all girls school in 1814. Now in Troy, New York, Emma Willard School is a lovely place..
