jewish woman

  • 1JEWISH WOMAN, THE — JEWISH WOMAN, THE, a quarterly journal that began as the in house newsletter of the national council of jewish women (NCJW) in 1921. By the time it ceased publication in 1931, The Jewish Woman had reached out to a wide audience of American Jewish …

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  • 2Jewish woman — woman of the Jewish faith, woman of Jewish heritage …

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  • 3Jewish feminism — is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Judaism and to open up new opportunities for religious experience and leadership for Jewish women. Feminist movements, with varying approaches and… …

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  • 4Jewish assimilation — is a social and religious process of loss of the Jewish identity of an individual by marriage to a spouse that is not Jewish, or the abandonment of the Jewish religion to adopt another religion which is more common, and thus more acceptable at… …

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  • 5WOMAN — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the historical perspective biblical period marriage and children women in household life economic roles educational and managerial roles religious roles women outside the household… …

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  • 6Jewish views of marriage — Judaism traditionally considers marriage to be the ideal state of personal existence; a man without a wife, or a woman without a husband, is considered incomplete. [Babylonian Talmud Yebomoth 62b.] Betrothal ( shiddukhin )In Jewish law (halakha) …

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  • 7Jewish exodus from Arab lands — The Jewish exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century expulsion or mass departure of Jews, primarily of Sephardi and Mizrahi background, from Arab and Islamic countries. The migration started in the late 19th century, but accelerated after …

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  • 8Jewish humour — is the long tradition of humour in Judaism dating back to the Torah and the Midrash, but generally refers to the more recent stream of verbal, self deprecating and often anecdotal humour originating in Eastern Europe and which took root in the… …

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  • 9Jewish Theological Seminary of America — Building at 3080 Broadway in Manhattan Motto והסנה איננו אכל Motto in English And …

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  • 10Jewish ethics — stands at the intersection of Judaism and the Western philosophical tradition of ethics. Like other types of religious ethics, the diverse literature of Jewish ethics primarily aims to answer a broad range of moral questions and, hence, may be… …

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