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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. Among Orthodox Jews , the term may be used to describe a Jewish girl or woman who fails to follow Orthodox religious precepts. The equivalent term for a non-Jewish male, used less frequently, is shegetz. Let him not marry the daughter of an unlearned and unobservant man, for they are an abomination and their wives a creeping thing. Several dictionaries define shiksa as a disparaging and offensive term applied to a non-Jewish girl or woman.

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Kristina Grish has been described as a "Nazi" and little better than a prostitute. Her crime: writing a light-hearted, non-Jewish woman's guide to understanding Jewish men. On Web sites and letters pages in Israel and the US, Jewish women have railed at Grish, an American Protestant, accusing her of making it harder for them to find a Jewish man and trying to destroy Judaism.

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American Jews have been debating the impact of intermarriage for decades. Does intermarriage lead to assimilation and weaken the Jewish community?

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Can We Retire the Word “Shiksa”?

Interfaith marriage in Judaism also called mixed marriage or intermarriage was historically looked upon with very strong disfavor by Jewish leaders, and it remains a controversial issue among them today. Many Jews followed the Talmud and all of resulting Jewish law Halakha until the advent of new Jewish movements following the Jewish Enlightenment resulted in the " Haskala "; in Halakha marriage between a Jew and a gentile is both prohibited, and also void under Jewish law. The Hebrew Bible contains numerous examples of interethnic marriage.

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