: of, relating to, or characteristic of the Jews
also
: being a Jew
Jewishly
adverb
Jewishness
noun
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The story follows a Jewish family across five generations, from childhood to adulthood, blending laughs and tear-jerking moments, just like in Bob-Waksberg’s other shows.
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Braedon Montgomery, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
This is already an issue in the world of human resources where LLMs might unfairly reject a candidate because their last name sounds Jewish, the research noted.
—Mark Guarino, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2025
In Los Angeles, Rabbi Hannah Jensen, who helps lead the progressive congregation Ikar, invoked the traditional Three Weeks of mourning on the Jewish calendar — and reimagined them as an extended period of civic grief for her city.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
His thought experiments lead sometimes to stone walls and sometimes to flashes of insight or hilarity, always with an un-erasable Jewish inflection.
—Jon Raymond
august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
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Braedon Montgomery, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
This is already an issue in the world of human resources where LLMs might unfairly reject a candidate because their last name sounds Jewish, the research noted.
—Mark Guarino, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2025
In Los Angeles, Rabbi Hannah Jensen, who helps lead the progressive congregation Ikar, invoked the traditional Three Weeks of mourning on the Jewish calendar — and reimagined them as an extended period of civic grief for her city.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
His thought experiments lead sometimes to stone walls and sometimes to flashes of insight or hilarity, always with an un-erasable Jewish inflection.
—Jon Raymond
august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
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“Jewish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Jewish. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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