How to Use Judaism in a Sentence

Judaism

noun
  • The complex is the holiest site in Judaism, where Jews face in prayer.
    Dana Karni, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Because these people who are loving the show have to love some aspect of Judaism.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Amichai Lau-Lavie wants to get inside the system of Judaism like a virus.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 June 2024
  • Rabbinic Judaism does not regard the fetus as a full human being.
    Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, is the holiest site in Judaism.
    Tia Goldenberg and Isaac Scharf, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • Jerusalem is mentioned more than 600 times in Judaism’s holy books but not once in the Koran.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 13 July 2024
  • The site, which is known to Jews as the Temple Mount, is the holiest place in Judaism.
    Tamar Michaelis, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Harry and his bride, who converted to Judaism for him, share two daughters, Lily and Rose.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Both Judaism and Christianity took this to mean that each person has something of the divine in them.
    Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2024
  • But the show fills the space left by that absence by reckoning, deeply and sincerely, with everything else Judaism is.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The census doesn’t track Judaism as either a religion or an ethnicity, and polling on the question is tricky.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2025
  • At first glance, Silverstein may seem odd to anyone not familiar with the ins and outs of observant Judaism.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • For years, Judaism and Zionism have been presented as one to Americans.
    Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Having a Jewish rom-com that is mainstream with so many people wanting to revisit their Judaism?
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Historic turning point There were tensions in Rabbinic Judaism from the outset.
    Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 15 June 2023
  • People staked out their own places at the Kotel—the holiest spot in Judaism—and prayed with unusual personal space.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • What’s at stake instead is the idea of empathy, a central value in Edelman’s vision of Judaism.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • But the movie still leaves me worried about the role of b’nai mitzvah in American Judaism — and its implications.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Name Matisyahu Best known for Blending reggae music and Judaism.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is considered the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
    Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The Seder plate There are variations on Passover practices by the many different types of Judaism.
    Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The mosque is part of Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism where two biblical Temples once stood.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Judaism, in short, was not only the name for the faith of the Jews but a negative definition of Christianity.
    Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The soul of the country is now the battleground, and the outcome will decide not just the shape of Israel for many, many years to come, but also the shape of Judaism.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
  • As a result, children who once wore Star of David pendants were hiding visible displays of their Judaism, the complaint states.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The next year, Magal was promoted to editor-in-chief, and launched a section called Walla Judaism.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • From this perspective, the message of the four children is that every Jew has a place within Judaism, even the rasha, with all the difficulties that entails.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the links among Judaism, Jewish identity, and Israel tightened.
    Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • What also makes the Rikers siddur different from others is the inclusion of writings by those of other faiths who have turned to Judaism while on the island.
    Marla Brown Fogelman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The last couple years have been marked by intense and often rancorous debates around Judaism, within both the community writ large and nuclear units like the Schwoopers.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025

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