Enough to Be Greedy, but Not Enough to Feel Guilty about It

Chick #1: Sometimes I wonder if my Jewishness has more to do with living in New York.
Chick #2: I totally know what you mean. Like, how Jewish would we be in California?

–7th St, between 1st & Ave A

Headline by: Kevin

Runners-Up:
· “Fantastic Goyage” – j3rry
· “I Think More Than Madonna, Less Than Jesus” – alex gherardi
· “Like, Do These Tefillin, Like, Make My Wig Look Fat?” – Herbie McHebrew
· “Putting the El-Al in LA” – kerm
· “We Still Wouldn’t Swallow, but We’d Spit Cooler” – RaindanceRichard

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Posted on July 14, 2015
Headline Contest Winners, JAPs, Judaism, Questions, U.S. Geography, Union Square and East Village

Since When Is “Jingle Bells” a Christian Song?

NYU girl #1 (singing): “Jingle bells/Jingle bells…”
NYU girl #2: Would you stop singing Christmas music, you're Jewish! Sing “Dreidel, dreidel”!
NYU girl #1: Ewwww.. No, I hate that stupid Jew song!

–Q Train

Posted on July 14, 2015
Christianity, Compare/Contrast, Default, Girls, Judaism, Music, Offers and requests, On the Subway, Students

More Like a Muslim Thing

Tourist girl #1: What’s with all the Jewish people here? Is it a Jewish holiday or something?
Tourist girl #2: Maybe it’s a Mormon thing.

–Ground Zero

Posted on July 14, 2015
Christianity, Girls, Ground Zero, Idiots, Judaism, Stupidity, Tourists

The Two Types Of People Who Eventually End Up at NYU

Little boy #1: So, are you a Jew?
Little boy #2: No, I'm an Aquarius.

–Chinese Restaurant, 52nd & 1st

Overheard by: Ethan

Posted on July 9, 2015
Judaism, Kids, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Questions, Restaurants & Cafes, Weirdness

It’s Pronounced Schwartz (Happy Halloween!)

Drunk girl #1: So I think I am going to go as something I totally hate for Halloween.
Drunk girl #2: What are you going as?
Drunk girl #1: I think I am either going as a Jew or a Chinese person
or a tourist.
Drunk girl #2: Hey, you know I am Jewish, don’t you?
Drunk girl #1: I don’t care, I am definitely going as a Jew.
Drunk girl #2: Shots?

–37th & 3rd

Overheard by: Brian McCormick

Posted on June 18, 2015
Drinking & Drunk People, Drunks, Girls, Holidays, Jews, Judaism, Murray Hill and Gramercy

Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?

Child, after hurting himself: Jesus!
Grandma: Oh, no. Don’t say that tonight.
Child: Christ!

–Seder, UWS

Overheard by: bobby bo bobby

Headline by: AL

Runners-Up:

· “Sawww-eee.” – Sameer

· “All that colorful Yiddish I taught you, and this is the best you can do?” – MB

· “Blasphemy is allah the same to me” – Yugan

· “Either way, it’s still not kosher” – Peter

· “Wait until after we kill him” – bobofthejungle

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Posted on June 14, 2015
Christianity, Headline Contest Winners, Holidays, Jews, Judaism, Kids, Old People, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Words

We Call It “Little Israel”

Guy: So you guys are Jewish?
Girl: Yeah, why?
Guy: Are you from Brooklyn? I live there now, and there are a lot of Jewish people there.
Girl: No, we’re from Staten Island.
Guy: Oh. Are there a lot of Jewish people there?

–Finnerty’s, Union Square area

Overheard by: Becka Dash