They had no particular relationship to reality if it were a haimish place.

He decided to make them a partner because he thought they were "haimish."

Although smaller than most of the area congregations, it is known for its haimish attitude and welcoming atmosphere.

Yet behind the earthy manner - the Yiddish word for it is haimish - lay immense sophistication about life, letters and show business.

"There is something haimish about him," says Mr. Steinhardt.

Call it haimish modern.

Unlike the formulaic lives of so many other genre detectives, this couple's domestic affairs have the haimish warmth of reality.

The Yiddish word is "haimish," meaning "homelike."

Haimish Karrasch is an Australian rower.

"He liked a haimish place," said Mr. Orenstein, using the Yiddish word for homey.

The subject matter covers everything from New York nightclubs to settlements in Gaza, and the tone ranges from the haimish to the horrific.

There is another Orthodox preschool, Torah Tots, and a day camp offering a "haimish atmosphere" - warm and homey.

Before the Boston Red Sox, before the Anaheim Angels, there was Haimish Fletcher.

Today, the Woodstock Jewish Congregation is flourishing, managing to be both "haimish and funky" - as one member put it, using a Yiddish word meaning homey.

Using the Yiddish term for cozy, he calls his business "a real haimish operation," where laundry customers leaf though travel brochures and occasionally book a vacation between spin cycles.

Weddings at Sammy's Roumanian Steak House are very haimish, according to the owner, Stan Zimmerman, whose middle name is Sammy.

In one corner, there is Herbert E. Berman, known universally as Herbie, the haimish head of the City Council's Finance Committee.

I, a product of two civilizations, am drawn to this experience - to this mix of rough hands and young feet - the gallant and the workaday, the haimish and the foreign.

"It's not the same kind of warm haimish feeling since Leo passed away," said Corbett Monica, the comedian, who was featured in the "table-comic" scenes of "Broadway Danny Rose."

When the haimish buddha who runs the N.B.A. delivered the good news before the game, the teams had been playing all season with a stopped clock - the labor clock, not the 24-second variety.

Contrariwise, the Yiddish haimish means "homely" but is a compliment, suggesting home cooking for food and a homebody for a person who does not long for dancing in nightclubs or trips to spas.

With Blomkvist, Larsson has given Salander an appealing partner and foil - a romanticized version of the workaday investigative reporter; a smart, haimish Everyman who also happens to be a genuine chick magnet.

The word is haimish, which the program translates as "like a family," and a new young female gentile secretary in an all-Jewish law firm is struggling to grasp its meaning and nuances, along with a lexicon of other Yiddish words that come flying her way.

It's typical of Goodman's blend of the sublime and the haimish (homey) that when Elizabeth experiences an epiphany while looking at Cole's picture, it is the revelation of a most unambitious ambition: She wants to open a kosher grocery store.

But there was also the more haimish, or homey, side of culture, which came into focus most clearly when corned beef mixed with the chauvinistic sense that in the lore of Jewish cuisine, the Los Angeles deli has never been considered more than a side dish.