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- noun Plural form of
kishke .
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Examples
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If Republicans can paint Obama as a Muslim or Muslim sympathizer, as an appeaser to Iran, as inexperienced on foreign policy, as insufficiently caring about Israel in his kishkes -- the Yiddish word for guts -- then they can peel off Jewish votes.
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American Jews don't like Obama because they don't feel him in their kishkes.
Brent E. Sasley: Predicting the Jewish Vote in 2012 Brent E. Sasley 2012
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But it's a truism that can take us very far from the womb, and it's one that doesn't get me in the kishkes.
David Suissa: A Seder For Broken Jews David Suissa 2011
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The younger generation of non-Orthodox Jews is increasingly more likely to be distressed with Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, and therefore care less about either kishkes or popular perceptions of lack of support.
Brent E. Sasley: Predicting the Jewish Vote in 2012 Brent E. Sasley 2012
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But it's a truism that can take us very far from the womb, and it's one that doesn't get me in the kishkes.
David Suissa: A Seder For Broken Jews David Suissa 2011
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American Jews don't like Obama because they don't feel him in their kishkes.
Brent E. Sasley: Predicting the Jewish Vote in 2012 Brent E. Sasley 2012
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The younger generation of non-Orthodox Jews is increasingly more likely to be distressed with Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, and therefore care less about either kishkes or popular perceptions of lack of support.
Brent E. Sasley: Predicting the Jewish Vote in 2012 Brent E. Sasley 2012
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American Jews don't like Obama because they don't feel him in their kishkes.
Brent E. Sasley: Predicting the Jewish Vote in 2012 Brent E. Sasley 2012
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The younger generation of non-Orthodox Jews is increasingly more likely to be distressed with Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, and therefore care less about either kishkes or popular perceptions of lack of support.
Brent E. Sasley: Predicting the Jewish Vote in 2012 Brent E. Sasley 2012
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“Their heads support a strong American role in helping Israel make peace with its neighbors, but their kishkes [guts] are uncomfortable with the idea of anyone ‘telling Israel what to do.’”
Ira Chernus: Martin Luther King's Legacy and Israel's Future 2010
john commented on the word kishkes
"The One, as McCain aides sardonically call Obama, glided through Afghanistan, Iraq and Jordan, girding his messianic loins for the inevitable kvetching he would face in Israel as skeptical Jews “try to get a better sense of what’s in Obama’s kishkes.�? So said Nathan Diament of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, in The Daily News, defining “kishkes�? as Yiddish for gut."
The New York Times, Is ‘The One’ Cocky or Commander in Chiefy?, by Maureen Dowd, July 23, 2008
July 23, 2008