How to Use Jewish in a Sentence

Jewish

adjective
  • The Jewish students lasted an hour and a half and left.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 2024-05-08
  • His father was a Jewish banker who changed his name after the war.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 2024-12-02
  • Growing up, he was raised in the Jewish faith and still practices.
    Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 2023-06-02
  • With her ex-husband being Jewish, the mom of two has been open about raising her daughters in the faith.
    Kayla Grant, People.com, 2025-05-14
  • The Jewish obligation to give, tzedakah, was the source of her compassion.
    Lee Habeeb, Newsweek, 2024-11-05
  • The center is run by the daughter of a German Jewish refugee from the Nazis.
    Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 2025-02-19
  • For thousands of years, the citron has been a part of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 2023-09-28
  • When does Jewish holiday start in 2024 and what is the meaning?
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 2024-12-16
  • The deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
    USA TODAY, 2024-03-08
  • Mendel Goldberg, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, opened his shop in the late 1800s.
    Reggie Nadelson, New York Times, 2023-07-21
  • The arrest slip details that minutes after the incident, staff at Jewish Hospital reported that a man dropped off an infant in the lobby and fled the scene.
    Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Israel Hanging over the administration's stance on Israel's war in Gaza was the president's own sentiment for the Jewish state.
    Tom Bowman, NPR, 28 Aug. 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
  • Israel’s operation to take military control over Gaza City has continued despite outcry from many of the Jewish nation’s closest allies.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2025
  • 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.
    Braedon Montgomery, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Nadler, the most senior Jewish member of the House, told the Times that Israel's war in Gaza has eroded Democratic backing and strained his own pro-Israel stance.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Kushner, who is Jewish, wrote in the letter that antisemitic incidents in France have been fueled by French government statements about recognizing a Palestinian state.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • When the plans were offered in the early 1990s, Israeli authorities and Jewish settlers emphasized the practical needs for new development as Jerusalem had become too crowded.
    Christian Orozco, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Born September 1, 1949 and raised in Buffalo, New York, Feinberg grew up in a working-class Jewish family and was employed in factories at a young age.
    Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
  • Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war and began establishing Jewish settlements there soon after in defiance of international law.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Hill, who has also worked to track swatters, played an instrumental role in an FBI investigation into a ring of swatters targeting Jewish and minority institutions in 2023.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Julie O’Sullivan, Misericordia’s director of events and public relations, recalled that Turry often worked with the Jewish residents participating in Sabbath services.
    Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • That messaging is camouflage, according to Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a national network of Jewish groups.
    Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Westman had decorated the assault rifle and shotgun with hate speech in ways that aligned with the dark underbelly of alt-right meme culture that regularly disparages people of color, Jewish people, the LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities.
    Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The idea that Moe and Josh Flatbush, played by John and Nick Turturro, were supposedly antisemitic characters — like in the history of the music business there was never a situation where someone who was Jewish exploited Black musicians?
    Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • To force him to hand it over, all the movie’s miscreants—headed by a pair of ultra-Orthodox Jewish brothers, Lipa (Liev Schreiber) and Shmully (Vincent D’Onofrio)—subject Hank to relentless rounds of physical and emotional torture.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Nemes and regular co-writer Clara Royer start with a prologue four years after the war when young Jewish boy Andor (played at that age by Tibor Martin Lobbert) is retrieved by his mother Klára (Andrea Waskovics) from the orphanage where he was placed as an infant.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The immediate re-centering of Jewish harm, victimhood, and safety swiftly erased the actual harm and violence perpetrated against my own Palestinian community, including the October 2023 stabbing to death of Wadea Al Fayoume, a 6-year-old boy, a few miles from my home in Illinois.
    Sahar Mustafah august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This story was produced with financial support from Trish and Dan Bell and from donors comprising the South Florida Jewish and Muslim Communities, including Khalid and Diana Mirza, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In Netflix’s Long Story Short, BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg uses the elasticity of animation to warp time, dropping in on a singular Jewish family a couple dozen times from the 1990s to 2022 (and once in 1959).
    Judy Berman, Time, 30 Aug. 2025

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