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A Woman Called Golda is a 1982 American made-for-television film biopic of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir directed by Alan Gibson and starring Ingrid Bergman in what would become the final production she would star in before her death.
Golda Meir [nb 1] (née Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government and the first in the Middle East.
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.
Because of the androgynos person's uncertain identity, they can be classified differently in varying cases—sometimes male, sometimes female, sometimes both male and female, and other times neither. The legal ramifications of such an attitude forces the individual to adhere to Jewish law as both a male and female. [ 11 ]
He was also called upon during battle, showing that he was thought to intervene actively in the world of man, [30] unlike the more aloof El. The Lebanese city of Baalbeck was named after Baal. [33] Alternatively, Ba' al is a divine co-regent with El, where El was the executive while Ba' al was the sustainer of the cosmos. [34]
Huldah (Hebrew: חֻלְדָּה Ḥuldā) is a prophetess mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in 2 Kings 22:14–20 and 2 Chronicles 34:22–28. After the discovery of a book of the Law during renovations at Solomon's Temple , on the order of King Josiah , Hilkiah together with Ahikam , Acbor , Shaphan and Asaiah approach her to seek the Lord 's ...
[187] [188] In 2007 Jen Taylor Friedman, a British woman, became the first female sofer to scribe a Sefer Torah. [189] In 2010 the first Sefer Torah scribed by a group of women (six female sofers, from Brazil, Canada, Israel, and the United States) was completed; [190] this was known as the Women's Torah Project. [191]
Golda (Yiddish: גאָלדע or גאָלדאַ, Hebrew: גוֹלְדָה) is a Yiddish-language female name. Notable people with this name include: Mascha Kaléko (1907–1975), born Gołda Małka Aufen, German-language poet; Olga Bancic (1912–1944), born Golda Bancic, Jewish Romanian communist and member of the French Resistance during World ...