"The name Ashkenazic comes from Ashkenaz, a descendant of Noah who settled in a distant northern land. (see Gen 10: 3).". From Wordnik.com. [Progressive U - The new media voice for students] Reference
I guess I'm just a little confused:) "The name Ashkenazic comes. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive U - The new media voice for students] Reference
Sephardic comes from the Hebrew word for Spain and Ashkenazic from the Hebrew for German. From Wordnik.com. [Emancipation] Reference
Ashkenazic rite, with Yiddish translation and notes. From Wordnik.com. [Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers] Reference
Ashkenazic brides wore the large white dektukh (sheet). From Wordnik.com. [Old Yishuv: Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period.] Reference
"A loophole in the Ashkenazic rule?" grinned Myra back. From Wordnik.com. [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: LESBIANS HAVING BABIES] Reference
Born to Ashkenazic parents, Ann grew up on Capitol Hill in Seattle. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Information for Ann Lustig Neider] Reference
Does the DNA of Ashkenazic Jews tell us about their geographic history?. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Remington: Jacob's Legacy: Slightly Interesting Answers on Jewish Genetics, But Mostly Just More Questions] Reference
Poor Ashkenazic widows were housed in the basement of the Hurvah synagogue. From Wordnik.com. [Old Yishuv: Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period.] Reference
Gefilte fish and Lekach are commonly served by Ashkenazic Jews on this holiday. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
Also, many Asian-American and mixed-race Jews follow Ashkenazic rites, yet theyare. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Who Counts as an “Ethnically and Racially Diverse” Jew?] Reference
Born and raised in Seattle, Alice grew up within the Orthodox, Ashkenazic community. From Wordnik.com. [Alice Abrams Siegal: Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories] Reference
They received some support from the Sephardic and Ashkenazic communities (Halukkah). From Wordnik.com. [Old Yishuv: Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period.] Reference
So is your opposition to permanent changes like that Ashkenazic rule about no tattoos?. From Wordnik.com. [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: SO LOVELY, WOMEN TOGETHER] Reference
They tend to put the Chinese and Ashkenazic Jews on top, and themselves a little below. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Careful. Trust No-One. Shut Up.] Reference
As a rule, Ashkenazic scholars permitted them to do so, while Sephardic scholars did not. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef.] Reference
These cast members are of both Ashkenazic and Sephardic (Ladino and non-Ladino) background. From Wordnik.com. [Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Theater in the United States.] Reference
Ashkenazic diseases like Tay-Sachs, they say, are a side effect of genes that promote intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-05] Reference
When an Ashkenazic man married a Sephardic women of more common origins, they had no common language. From Wordnik.com. [Old Yishuv: Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period.] Reference
Actually, the common convention is to apply the term to all non-Ashkenazic Jews, whatever their origin. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
The NK is an extreme example, but there have always been UO Jews in Palestine, Ashkenazic and Sephardic. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Avigdor Lieberman Boosted By Pro-Pork Backlash] Reference
Cohen then writes, “Bernstein suggests that Ashkenazic Jews are genetically inferior to Norwegians.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Berkowitz on Harvard Law and the Email Controversy] Reference
There are sephardic Jews with darker skin and there are Ashkenazic Jews mostly from Europe that are white. From Wordnik.com. [Trey Ellis: New Yorker, What Were You Thinking?] Reference
French, Provencal and Ashkenazic authorities required an additional three days until the semen was expelled. From Wordnik.com. [Female Purity (Niddah).] Reference
Bernstein writes, “I think Ashkenazic Jews may be genetically predisposed to be shorter than Norwegians.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Berkowitz on Harvard Law and the Email Controversy] Reference
I'm a hard-nosed Sephardic Zionist from Casablanca; Brous is a spiritual Ashkenazic liberal Zionist from America. From Wordnik.com. [David Suissa: In Praise of Disunity] Reference
It features sizable numbers of Sephardim, North Africans, and Arabic speakers, aside from the Ashkenazic majority. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina: Jewish Women.] Reference
UPDATE: An alternative explanation is that the IJRC study means to count as “diverse” all non-Ashkenazic Jews. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Who Counts as an “Ethnically and Racially Diverse” Jew?] Reference
He found that all the Ashkenazic diseases had similar properties, including having arisen within the last 1,100 years. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-05] Reference
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries saw the emergence of new strategies of marriage negotiation in Ashkenazic society. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Ashkenaz (1096-1348).] Reference
The stores were owned by Orthodox Ashkenazic Jews but Sephardim lived in their neighborhood and so they shopped there too. From Wordnik.com. [Reva Ketzlach Twersky: Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories] Reference
The Ashkenazic Jews belive they are superior to the Sephardic Jews and this behavior is the same today as it was in ancient times. From Wordnik.com. [Trey Ellis: New Yorker, What Were You Thinking?] Reference
Ashkenazic society spoke Yiddish, the Sephardim — Ladino, and the North African and Yemenite communities — different Arabic dialects. From Wordnik.com. [Old Yishuv: Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period.] Reference
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