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Le'Shana Tova Tikatevu, greeting card from Montevideo, 1932. There are several Jewish and Hebrew greetings, farewells, and phrases that are used in Judaism, and in Jewish and Hebrew-speaking communities around the world. Even outside Israel, Hebrew is an important part of Jewish life. [1]
Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging [1] term for a gentile [a] woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into English usage and some Hebrew usage (as well as Polish and German), mostly in North American Jewish culture.
French description of the Fadas ceremony (1888) In Jewish legal literature, the Zeved Habat event is cited as either taking place in the synagogue [13] during the Torah reading of the Shabbat service, when the father receives an aliya, or the ceremony may take place at the home [13] [14] in the course of a festive meal. [19]
schlepper: bum (Yiddish שלעפּר shlepr and German schleppen) schmeckle (Yid. שמעקל): a little penis, often ascribed to a baby boy. Diminutive of שמאָק shmok, "penis." schmeer (Yid. שמיר) also schmear: as a verb, to spread, e.g., the cream cheese on your bagel; also, as a noun, that which you spread on something, e.g., "I'll ...
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“Being a Jewish woman is part of my identity, and I want to make sure my kids know it’s part of theirs too," she says. While she’s OK with her kids celebrating holidays from both of their ...
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
A s a millennial Jewish woman, the new Netflix series Nobody Wants This hooked me with a concept: "Adam Brody plays a hot Rabbi." And, yes, when I actually watched the 10-episode romantic comedy ...