Shiksa
100 Years Of Jewish Men ‘Rebelling’ With Non-Jewish Women
The fascinating history of American Jewish men and their “shiksa”s.
My Most Disturbing Shabbat
A rabbi shares the most disturbing experience he had during his almost two years spent studying in Yeshiva in Israel — and what we can learn from it.
'Shiksa Appeal' Leans on Outmoded Stereotypes
I really did want to put down “Secrets of Shiksa Appeal: Eight Steps to Attract Your Shul-Mate,” a new self-help guide, which begins with the cringe-worthy lines, “I once drove a boyfriend into the arms of a shiksa. The following pages are my attempt to make up for that.” But before I knew it I was through the 117-page book.
Prime Ribs: Gwyneth and Kabbalah; Knesset's 'Shiksa' Debate
Apparently a love for Kabbalah runs in the family. Contact Music is reporting that in an upcoming episode of “Who Do You Think You Are?” Gwyneth Paltrow discovers that her great-great-great grandfather was a master of Kabbalah.
'Don't Call Me — or Chelsea — a Shiksa'
The recent conversion to Judaism and subsequent marriage of Ivanka Trump to Jared Kushner, and Chelsea Clinton’s even more recent engagement to Marc Mezvinsky have newspapers, magazines and blogs discussing the impact these relationships have on society and on the families involved. In this Daily Beast essay, Samuel P. Jacobs touts Ivanka Trump’s, and presumably Chelsea Clinton’s, seeing the “allure of marrying a Jewish man,” — without mentioning the wealth and power both Ivanka and Chelsea bring to their respective unions. Jacobs goes on to write, “Of course, Jewish mothers worry endlessly about their sons falling prey to the seductive powers of the shiksa.”
