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The one thing that I noticed immediately was the use of the word ‘yenta,’ because yenta doesn’t actually mean matchmaker. It means, like, an old woman, an old gossipy woman. A shadchan is a matchmaker.
— A message from Channa Joffe-Walt’s mom correcting her use of yenta in a story about the Spanish banking crisis.
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