How to Use Jew in a Sentence

Jew

noun

• Noni was white, a Jew from a small town in Iowa who’d majored in fine arts.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
• At all times, a Jew should remember that we are created b’tzelem elokim.
  — Michael Isaacson, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
• Everybody who wasn’t a young mother or an elderly Jew was up for grabs.
  — Mark Seliger, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
• The neurotic Jew is a real thing, and these works explore it with nuance and depth.
  — Rachel Israel, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
• But would the country accept the first Jew and the first woman on a ticket in the same person?
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Sep. 2024
• Maureen loathed that her daughter had married a commoner, and a Jew at that.
  — Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
• Jew haters have long alleged the wickedness of Israel and its ties with powerful elites across the world.
  — Michael S. Roth, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
• David arrived nine months later, a 16-year-old Polish Jew who loved to sing.
  — Keren Blankfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• The media is fanning the flames of an unprecedented surge in Jew hatred.
  — Doug Friednash, The Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2024
• Shapiro is an observant Jew and would be the first Jewish vice president.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024
• Each Jew was represented when the high priest entered the Ark of the Covenant.
  — Rabbi Ashley Englander, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
• Larry is unsettled, as a Jew, by the militant posters on the restaurant’s walls.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Filler-Corn had been the first woman and first Jew to serve as speaker of the Virginia House.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2023
• Over the past year, the word has become an alternative for Jew in order to mask underlying hate.
  — Marc Levine, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
• Heinrich Heine, whose poem the statue commemorates, was a satirist and a Jew.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Israel on October 7th and since has become the most dangerous place in the world to be a Jew.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
• Some of the reforms backer want to create a stricter definition of what kind of Jew can become a citizen.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• The Soviet Union was a terrible place to be a Jew; god, was the fruit delicious.
  — Ruth Madievsky, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2023
• But to be a Jew in Paris in the late 1930s is to live within the loop of an ever-tightening noose.
  — Lauren Elkin, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• Thus, the biblical lawgiver made sure that no Jew would ever get a perfect 10 in the test of the commandments.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• As a Jew and a Communist activist, he had been threatened with prison and execution in Iraq.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• Zhirinovsky was the son of a Ukrainian Jew, but such was the vicious vaudeville of Russian politics in the nineties.
  — James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
• Louis lost his job when the Nuremberg Laws were adopted in 1935; as a Jew he was barred from teaching in a state school.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The idea of Jews living in postwar Gaza may seem improbable, but Gaza hasn’t always been Jew-free.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
• New Jersey suffered the third most incidents of Jew-hatred in the country, according to the report.
  — Mike Wagenheim, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
• The Viennese cultural elite that had so warmly welcomed Kaspar the farmer cast out Leo the Jew.
  — Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
• The biggest issue was not whether a Jew could win votes but how an observant Jew would handle the demanding job of being vice president.
  — Nathan Diament, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
• Shapiro, a Democrat and a Jew, had celebrated Passover Seder the day before with family and friends.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
• As a Zionist and a deeply committed Jew, the events of October 7 and the ensuing war has never been far from my mind.
  — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025
• In 2004, when a search on the word Jew produced an anti-Semitic site as the first result, Google declined to change anything.
  — Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024