Jewish Women Around the World Have Demonstrated 'Chutzpah' for Millennia - San Diego Jewish World

Jewish Women Around the World Have Demonstrated 'Chutzpah' for Millennia - San Diego Jewish World

Beautifully illustrated, Chutzpah Girls tells the stories of remarkable Jewish women from biblical times through the present with six continents represented. [Donald H. Harrison]

Biblical Chutzpah Hall of Fame

Rabbi Eli Seidman This week’s Torah portion is Korach: Samuel 11:14 – 12:22 Author Leo Rosten defines the term “chutzpah” as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts,’ presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to.” Chutzpah is “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan” (“Joys of Yiddish”). In this…