Interestingly, some argue the exact opposite: her original name was Batya, but she changed it to Bitya as an act of humility.

Zacks is an Ashkenazi German-Jew and Mercada is adamant in her aversion to Ashkenazi Jews ... In the original novel her author described her thus: It was hard not to admire the beautiful Luna, who ...

Coming from over 20 different countries, the Jews of Mexico are sharply divided, by their ancestral places of origin and their religious customs: Ashkenazi ... and “it was beautiful,” she ...

The Abu Fraiha family – the subject of a beautiful and moving documentary In Her Footsteps produced by Rana Abu ... When she speaks to audiences, Rana describes Omer as one of the most Zionistic, ...