yenta

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There is also a Jewish Currents podcast, “On the Nose,” and a regular dating feature for “lovelorn leftists,” Red Yenta.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2022

But, aside from the ideologies and the lack of photos, Red Yenta is a lot like other dating apps.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

Crosswords play demented Yenta: alphabetical alchemy smashes together pairs that wouldn’t otherwise inhabit the same space-time continuum.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2019

In his excellent review of Evan Thomas’s “First,” Jeffrey Toobin repeats Justice O’Connor’s self-description as “the Yenta of Paradise Valley,” which was intended as a reference to her matchmaking skills.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2019

After this success Yenta seems to have rested on his laurels, although he by no means gave up his raids, which, however, assumed more and more a local character.

From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles