Shanda

"Shanda" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Oi, it was such a shanda. I should never buy gribenes from a Mohel. It's so chewy.

A shanda is humiliation and embarrassment one's misdeed suffers upon one's family. In our faith, a shanda is a terrible sin.

They don't learn about their heritage. They don't learn about Israel. It's a shanda.

My parents are Orthodox Jews. To them, intermarriage is considered a shanda.

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