Sentences with phrase «for yentas»
On one side, Barry Grodenchik, former one - term assemblyman, long - term habitué of Queens Borough Hall, purse - carrier for yentas from Claire Shulman to Helen Marshall to Nettie Mayersohn to current avatar Melinda Katz, represents the traditional Queens County Dems, who have all lined up behind him.
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«This is a special place where it's a wonderful slice of New York and you have yentas, bochinches, y mas yentas,» Schneiderman said, using the Yiddish and Spanish slang for busybodies.
Patrick Perrine, the founder and CEO of myPartner, saw a niche and went for it, expanding his private yenta business into a full - blown online dating and matchmaking service that he launched last June.
They're not poster girls for senior dating; rather, Jdate is promoting their images to suggest that it's «yentas» who are working out the algorithms for perfect pairing.
Brooks predicts that every top dating site will soon have an upgrade option for its users that include the services of a real, live, modern - day yenta.
We used to have yentas or parents to help us get married; now we have to fend for ourselves.
(Jdate for Jewish singles, considered the yenta of the niche world, goes back to 1997.)
We are the yentas for hire.