kashrut

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Pronunciations

kashrut (kash-ROOT) listen

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Definitions

Example Sentences

  • "Leah is very strict about kashrut."

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • TH כשרות kashrút > Y כּשרות káshres

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

      Regions

      • North America
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa
      • Australia / New Zealand

      Dictionaries

      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
      • Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).

      Alternative Spellings

      kashrus

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