Three cheers for the bat mitzvah girl! Hip hip hooray! Hip hip… wait, stop. This is all wrong. Turns out our good old American cheer derives from an old anti-Semitic rallying cry, “hep hep.” One source claims that “the phrase does have anti-Semitic roots. Rioters in Europe sometimes shouted ‘Hep! Hep!’ while on the prowl for […]
