Meaning of shanda | Babel Free

Definitions

Shame; disgrace.

Jewish

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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