Fashion is a form of ugliness
so intolerable
that we have to alter it
every six months
- Oscar Wilde

Eshet Chayil and Tisha Kabin are designed for all Jewish women. However, the groups are likely to attract a high proportion of traditionally observant women.

As a result, some less observant or newly observant women may feel left out because of the terminology. That may be a problem, because everybody on the groups should speak the same language and understand the terms in the same way.

This is why the subscribers to our women's groups have prepared a glossary of terms. Please feel free to refer to this glossary when encountering a new term in any of the postings. Those who would like to recommend additional terms are welcome to do so and they will be added to this listing for the benefit of all of us Jewish women.

This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of terminology for Jewish women. It is meant to be a list of the words that we Jewish women encounter on the Jewish and Hebrew groups.