Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In North American and other diaspora Jewish communities, the use of "shiksa" reflects more social complexities than merely being a mild insult to non-Jewish women. A woman can only be a shiksa if she is perceived as such by Jewish people, usually Jewish men, making the term difficult to define; the Los Angeles Review of Books suggested there ...
The word, derived from Yiddish, has been used historically (and often disparagingly) to describe a usually blond, non-Jewish woman who tempts an otherwise God-fearing man to stray from his ...
On a Sabbath day, 19-year-old Esty Shapiro, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish married woman, flees her home in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, section of New York City with only a handful of possessions. She takes a plane to Berlin , where her estranged mother lives, but runs away before they can meet after seeing her mother kiss her female partner.
A woman who is denied a divorce from her husband is not considered an agunah until her husband refuses an order by a beth din (rabbinic court) to give her a get. What constitutes a legitimate request for a divorce is based on halakhic considerations and the particular case of the couple.
Criticism over the depictions of Jewish women in "Nobody Wants This" was swift. "It's a shame the Jewish women in 'Nobody Wants This' are impossible to root for — one-dimensional and painfully ...
Nobody Wants This creator Erin Foster is responding to critics who believe the Netflix series features stereotypical depictions of Jewish people. “I think we need positive Jewish stories right ...
The anti-conversion work takes the form of a series of letters between the young Jewish woman Annie who is struggling with her faith, and the older Jewish woman, Inez, who instructs her in the benefits of the faith and provides guidance. [29] 1848: Deborah: Deborah: Salomon Hermann Mosenthal: Play: Austria
Shalom bayit [1] (Hebrew: שְׁלוֹם בַּיִת, lit. peace of the home) (also sholom bayit or shlom bayit, or (Yiddish) sholom bayis or shlom bayis) is the Jewish religious concept of domestic harmony and good relations between husband and wife.