Guy #1: God, I hate the Heebs. How can I join Hezbollah?
Guy #2: Shut the fuck up, man! The government probably heard that!
–4 train, 86th St
Overheard by: waiting for a sniper to take him out
Guy #1: God, I hate the Heebs. How can I join Hezbollah?
Guy #2: Shut the fuck up, man! The government probably heard that!
–4 train, 86th St
Overheard by: waiting for a sniper to take him out
Hipster guy: I mean, she’s a Jewish. She’s not, like, a bad person, I think.
–44th & 9th
Overheard by: …right.
Dude: He’s that kind of super-serious Jew that doesn’t touch women. I think they call it ‘Hava Nagila.’
–Rockefeller Center
Overheard by: Rose Fox
Middle school girl trying to catch snowflakes in her mouth: These snowflakes are so antisemitic! They won’t go in my mouth!
–110th & Amsterdam
Blonde on cell: I just don’t see us working out. All my friends hate you, my mom hates you, and even my dog hates you… My mom hates you because you’re not Jewish… Yes, I’m aware I’m Catholic… Because Jews are financially secure!
–Starbucks, Upper West Side
Frustrated Jewish guy: I mean, look at these people and their Red Sox yarmulkes! What is this world coming to?!
–Judaism Debate, Cooper Union
Shiksa seeing menorah-shaped chocolates: Oooh, combs!
–Party, W 72nd & Broadway
Hipster #1: Have we had the bar mitzvah conversation yet?
Hipster #2: I thought you were a Mexican?
Hipster #1: I’m Brazilian. And Jewish.
Hipster #2: Are you fucking with me?
–Williamsburg
Guy with curly black hair: I’m not Jewish!
Friend: Sure you are — you have Bob Dylan hair.
–Stuyvesant High
Overheard by: It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Stereotype
JAP with Barneys bag: … So she borrowed five dollars and still hasn’t paid me back yet. Like, what the fuck?
Friend: Shhh… Your Jew is showing.
–1 train
Overheard by: crazian
Confused girl: Why do you have strings coming out of your pants?
Boy: It’s a Jewish thing.
–LaGuardia High
Young boy: Mommy, can we get a Christmas tree now?
Mom: No, honey, we don’t need a tree. We celebrate Hanukkah in our home.
–7th Ave, Park Slope
Seven-year-old: The devil may be Jewish… The devil may be Jewish!
Father: Quiet, please.
–181st & Haven
Overheard by: Ben Moore
Shiksa: No, I’m not Jewish. I just have a blood disease.
–Union Square
Overheard by: Natalie
Worker: So. if you go on the first floor, it has all the information on Jewish heritage. The second floor is mainly about the Holocaust and the Nazis and why we hate them. And the third floor is just about Jewish life today.
–Museum of Jewish Heritage
Chick: Jews and gypsies are totally the same thing…
–9th & 2nd
Overheard by: lezbotron
Teen girl: I mean, I may have no morals, but I will not fuck a Jew on Yom Kippur.
–Union Square
Nine-year-old boy: George Bush likes the Jews. That’s why only Jews are allowed to hitchhike.
–Main St
Blonde: Do you have a first name?
Freakishly tall pale kid: Yes.
Blonde: Do you have a last name?
Freakishly tall pale kid: Yes.
Blonde: Do you have a middle name?
Freakishly tall pale kid: No.
Blonde: Well, I wanna annoy you. What’s your conformation name?
Freakishly tall pale kid: I’m Jewish.
Blonde: So?
–21st & 1st
