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As the late, great comedian Lenny Bruce once said: "If you live in New York, you're Jewish, even if you're Irish Catholic."
In this connection, I almost laughed yesterday when I overheard the bus driver chatting with a friend and he used the word "gelt" (Yiddish for money) in a perfectly nondescript conversation.
Or hearing the Latino workers at the pickle store in the Lower East Side greet their Sabbath customers with "gut shabbes."
Or as Woody Allen's character says in "Manhattan": the rest of the country thinks we New Yorkers are Jewish, communist, homosexual pornographers.
Or as Woody Allen's character says in "Manhattan": the rest of the country thinks we New Yorkers are Jewish, communist, homosexual pornographers.
And that's why everyone wants to live here.
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