How to Use Jewish in a Sentence

Jewish

adjective

• His father was a Jewish banker who changed his name after the war.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 2 Dec. 2024
• Growing up, he was raised in the Jewish faith and still practices.
  — Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2023
• Leslie is Jewish, so Cameron’s funeral was held three days after his death.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
• With her ex-husband being Jewish, the mom of two has been open about raising her daughters in the faith.
  — Kayla Grant, People.com, 14 May 2025
• The Jewish obligation to give, tzedakah, was the source of her compassion.
  — Lee Habeeb, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• The center is run by the daughter of a German Jewish refugee from the Nazis.
  — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2025
• 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 show explores the relationship between a young Jewish man and his mixed-race wife.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• 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
• When does Jewish holiday start in 2024 and what is the meaning?
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 16 Dec. 2024
• In her case, that content advocates for Israel and Jewish people at home and abroad.
  — Mark Guarino, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2025
• Her father was Jewish, her mother Catholic; Joy and her sisters were raised Catholic.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Green, who is married to Jaime, a Native Hawaiian, and has two teen children, is Jewish.
  — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• Stern, 40, works as a grant writer for The Jewish Agency for Israel.
  — cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
• One of those health care workers stood out—a small Jewish woman in her 60s named Karen Wald Cohen.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Read here how Marvin Barsky is keeping the tradition of Jewish delis in Chicago alive.
  — Lauryn Azu, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• Maimonides, the ancient Jewish philosopher, described eight levels of giving.
  — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• The Sneetches weren’t Jewish, because Jews are real and Sneetches aren’t.
  — Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
• Mendel Goldberg, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, opened his shop in the late 1800s.
  — Reggie Nadelson, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• There was an older Jewish woman who came up to me at the end of a Democratic Club forum in a synagogue some months ago.
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 20 June 2025
• 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 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
• That Germany was able to take people in France, Jewish people, and deport them to the east, and even the word deport was similar.
  — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 21 Apr. 2025
• Marcus, the son of Jewish immigrants, was the company's first chairman and CEO.
  — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Anyone who has studied Jewish history and knows the history of antisemitism should be more interested in this situation, not less.
  — Philip Metres august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025