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From time to time, this causes tsuris for the Orthodox, who prefer religious law, which is that Judaism is traced only through the mother’s side.
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Origin and Etymology of tsuris
Yiddish tsures, tsores, plural of tsure, tsore trouble, distress, from Hebrew ṣārāh
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