Departing from her native Yiddish to convey the sentiment in the correct idiom, one mother cheered her daughter Breindl in English, setting off the commotion among agitated media personalities.
Williamsburg, November 9 - Local and national media commentators descended on this Brooklyn neighborhood today following reports that the mother of an eleven-year-old student incited violence and made a thinly-veiled vulgar reference to the president as she shouted encouragement to the girl in the midst of a community-wide drive to collect food, clothing, toys, and other items to provide to the needy.
"Let's Go Breindl!" witnesses reported the mother had yelled, which media figures currently understand as an epithet directed at Joe Biden, following an NBC reporter's awkward attempt several weeks ago to distort an unmistakably profane anti-Biden chant at a NASAR event as "Let's go Brandon." Subsequent coverage of the exhortation in mainstream outlets has focused on the manifest danger to the republic in such instances of rhetoric. Media reports have yet to identify the woman or her daughter.
News of the development reached CNN first, followed by MSNBC and The New York Times; the Times seldom misses an opportunity to paint visibly-Jewish residents of the city and its environs as backward, insular, anti-science bigots, and the paper dispatched a team of reporters and photographers to the scene.
Journalists acknowledged difficulty in locating and identifying the offending parties. "There are a lot of people with that name around here, apparently," lamented CNN's Brian Stelter. "Normally I'm more of an in-studio commentary and interview guy, but this was a story I had to cover myself. It represents an escalation of the violent rhetoric we've seen from all sorts of quarters, even beyond the core white-supremacist Trump voters whom you'd normally expect to see behind this chant. The fact that the offenders in this case are Jewish, from a community that suffered so much in living memory from Nazism, sharpens the importance of the story."
From the fragments that reporters have pieced together, it appears that this morning, several Beis Yaakov seminaries - girls-only religious schools - began collaboration on a "Chesed Drive," using the Hebrew word for kindness, in which those who gather the most materials to donate to the poor in the neighborhood, many of whom have large families and struggle to obtain basic necessities, will win a cash prize, a gift certificate, and other honors. One mother, departing from her native Yiddish to convey the sentiment in the correct idiom, cheered her daughter Breindl in English, setting off the commotion among agitated media personalities.
The name Breindl in Yiddish means "brunette," among other possibilities, indicating that either the girl had dark hair at birth or is named for a deceased relative who did.