What the minyan article actually says is that Women are counted as part of the minyan in Reform Conservative Reconstructionist synagogues and at most non Orthodox prayer gatherings Excluding women from minyans may now be a minority practice in the English speaking world and at any rate the definition of minyan in English is certainly not restricted to men Although it is popularly believed that schmuck is related to German Schmuck that doesn t actually make it true Schmuck comes from Yiddish shmok penis which has no connection to the German word for jewel if it did it would be shmuk in Yiddish not shmok The AHD entry for schmuck traces it probably to Polish The article says that all the words and etymologies listed in it are vouched for by OED AHD or MW unless otherwise noted What I did was remove all of the additions that weren t supported by any of those three dictionaries and had no sources cited