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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 ...
A person who is born to a non-Jewish mother and a Jewish father is regarded as Zera Yisrael (lit. ' Seed of Israel ') and will only be accepted as ethnically Jewish and not as religiously Jewish. Thus, being Jewish through the paternal line typically necessitates conversion to Judaism to validate one's identity as a Jew in the fullest sense.
An agunah or aguna (Hebrew: עגונה \ עֲגוּנָה, aguná, plural: עגונות \ עֲגוּנוֹת , agunót; plural form: agunot; literally "anchored" or "chained") is a Jewish woman who is stuck in her religious marriage as determined by halakha (Jewish law).
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 ...
Le Get (The Divorce), painting by Moshe Rynecki, c. 1930. Postcard illustrating a divorce procedure, Jewish Museum of Switzerland A get, ghet, [1] [2] [3] or gett (/ ɡ ɛ t /; Imperial Aramaic: גט, plural gittin גטין) is a document in Jewish religious law which effectuates a divorce between a Jewish couple.
If one of the parents is not Jewish, the child is not a mamzer. Any child born to a married woman, even if she is known to have been unfaithful, is presumed to be her husband's, unless she is so promiscuous that such a presumption becomes unsupportable, [14] or if she enters a public relationship with another man. [15]
I grew up Catholic, and my wife was raised Jewish. As adults, we have both chosen a life free of organized religion . We are raising our children agnostic , with the option to choose a spiritual ...
Jackie Tohn plays Esther in Netflix's "Nobody Wants This" and, as Jewish woman, has thoughts about how Jewish women are depicted on the show. ... Tohn says, using the Yiddish term for non-Jewish ...