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Among [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jews]], the term may be used to describe a Jewish girl or woman who fails to follow Orthodox religious precepts. |
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Among [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jews]], the term may be used to describe a Jewish girl or woman who fails to follow Orthodox religious precepts. |
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The equivalent term for a non-Jewish male, used less frequently, is [[shegetz]].[{{cite web |url=http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/anti-non-semitism-an-investigation-of-the-shiksa |title=Anti-non-Semitism: An Investigation of the Shiksa |first=Menachem |last=Kaiser |date=March 6, 2013 |work=[[Los Angeles Review of Books]] |access-date=May 22, 2016 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306141429/https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/anti-non-semitism-an-investigation-of-the-shiksa |url-status=live }}] Because of [[Matrilineality in Judaism|Jewish matrilineal descent]], there is often less of a taboo associated with non-Jewish men.[{{]cite journal|title=The Quest for the Ultimate Shiksa|last=Jaher|first=Frederic Cople| journal=American Quarterly| year=1983| volume=35| number=5| pages=518–542|doi=10.2307/2712814 |jstor=2712814 }}[{{cite book |title=The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity| first=John Murray| last=Cuddihy| year=1976| publisher=Beacon Press| place=Boston, MA| isbn=9780807036099}}][{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26067980|title=The Jewish fear of intermarriage|work=BBC News|date=7 February 2014|archive-date=30 October 2023|access-date=1 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030202431/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26067980|url-status=live}}] |
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The equivalent term for a non-Jewish male, used less frequently, is [[shegetz]].[{{cite web |url=http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/anti-non-semitism-an-investigation-of-the-shiksa |title=Anti-non-Semitism: An Investigation of the Shiksa |first=Menachem |last=Kaiser |date=March 6, 2013 |work=[[Los Angeles Review of Books]] |access-date=May 22, 2016 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306141429/https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/anti-non-semitism-an-investigation-of-the-shiksa |url-status=live }}] Because of [[Matrilineality in Judaism|Jewish matrilineal descent]], there is often less of a taboo associated with non-Jewish men.[{{Cite journal |last=Jaher |first=Frederic Cople |date=1983 |title=The Quest for the Ultimate Shiksa |journal=American Quarterly |volume=35 |issue=5 |pages=518–542 |doi=10.2307/2712814 |issn=0003-0678||jstor=2712814 }}][{{cite book |title=The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity| first=John Murray| last=Cuddihy| year=1976| publisher=Beacon Press| place=Boston, MA| isbn=9780807036099}}][{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26067980|title=The Jewish fear of intermarriage|work=BBC News|date=7 February 2014|archive-date=30 October 2023|access-date=1 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030202431/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26067980|url-status=live}}] |
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