datlash

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew דַּתְלָ״שׁ (datlásh), from a contraction of דָּתִי לְשֶׁעָבַר (datí l'she'avár, “formerly religious”).

Noun

datlash (plural datlashim)

  1. (Judaism, rare) An apostate from Judaism.
    • 2010 June 24, Nir Hasson, “The Orthodox Jews Fighting the Judaization of East Jerusalem”, in Haaretz‎[1], archived from the original on 6 October 2022:
      Most are young people in their twenties and thirties, and they represent an entire spectrum: religious, datlashim (formerly religious, but usually people for whom religion and tradition are still important to some degree), […]

Synonyms

  • ex-frum
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