How to Use Jewish in a Sentence

Jewish

adjective
Definition of Jewishnext
  • The Jewish obligation to give, tzedakah, was the source of her compassion.
    — Lee Habeeb, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Marcus, the son of Jewish immigrants, was the company's first chairman and CEO.
    — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Jewish students lasted an hour and a half and left.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024
  • Growing up, he was raised in the Jewish faith and still practices.
    — Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2023
  • For thousands of years, the citron has been a part of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Mendel Goldberg, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, opened his shop in the late 1800s.
    — Reggie Nadelson, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • Stern, 40, works as a grant writer for The Jewish Agency for Israel.
    — cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But this thought about going back to 1948 really goes to the basics: the Zionist view is that the Arabs want to destroy the Jewish state.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In the book, the author had to pronounce the word Jewish, because the narrator speaks in a subjective way.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 19 May 2024
  • One of those health care workers stood out—a small Jewish woman in her 60s named Karen Wald Cohen.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • He’s gone now, and so is his city; even his father’s grave marker in the New Jewish Cemetery has long since vanished.
    — Laura Moserb, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2024
  • Her father was Jewish, her mother Catholic; Joy and her sisters were raised Catholic.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Green, who is married to Jaime, a Native Hawaiian, and has two teen children, is Jewish.
    — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And for anybody who's got a problem with the idea of a Jewish person on the Democratic ticket, take a long walk off a short Gaza pier.
    — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • The Sneetches weren’t Jewish, because Jews are real and Sneetches aren’t.
    — Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
  • The move has drawn praise from major Jewish groups, as well as backlash from student groups and some faculty.
    — Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Read here how Marvin Barsky is keeping the tradition of Jewish delis in Chicago alive.
    — Lauryn Azu, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The former will be on the second floor of the main library and will feature items that document the history of Jewish life in Mobile.
    — Margaret Kates | [email protected], al, 15 May 2023
  • This powerful show was based on the secret diaries kept by five Jewish teenagers who died during the Holocaust.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2023
  • In both cases, the member of the lower caste was shot to death, which for the Jewish woman was initially only heard but not seen onscreen.
    — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2024
  • It’s been a remarkable ascent for the fast-talking Jewish gay kid from St. Louis who turned out to have a lot more charisma than his former boss could see.
    — Maer Roshan, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
  • Last week, four Israelis were killed by a pair of Palestinian gunmen who opened fire next to a Jewish settlement.
    — Josef Federman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • Stein, the two-term attorney general, is seeking to be the state’s first governor of Jewish faith.
    — Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Hannah Arendt thought that Adolf Eichmann should have been not have been tried for crimes against the Jewish people but for crimes against humanity.
    — Time, 27 June 2023
  • But Schiff — who is Jewish and has a long, consistent history of strong support for Israel — brushes off the charges.
    — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
  • Radical Islam wants to slit the throat of every Jewish person.
    — CBS News, 9 June 2024
  • More than 2,700 Jewish fashion firms only in Berlin, became victims of German greed and hate against Jews in fashion.
    — Uwe Westphal, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
  • But some supporters of Israel doubt the Jewish state can count on an isolationist like Vance.
    — Max Boot, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • His father, Samuel, was a Jewish immigrant from Poland who owned a furniture store.
    — Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023

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