mehitzah

noun, plural me·hit·zoth, me·hit·zot, me·hit·zos [Sephardic Hebrew muh–khee-tsawt; Ashkenazic Hebrew muh–khee-tsuh z, –khee-tsohs] /Sephardic Hebrew mə xiˈtsɔt; Ashkenazic Hebrew məˈxi tsəz, -ˈxi tsoʊs/. Hebrew.

1. a curtain or other divider that serves as a partition between the women’s and the men’s sections in Orthodox Jewish synagogues.