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Jewish Adjective

— If you are Jewish then you are a Jew. — # If you are Jewish you believe or follow the religion called Judaism. — #: He changed his religion and became Jewish. — # If you are Jewish you are part of the group of people called Jews. To some people, the Jews are a race (or like a race); you are Jewish if your mother was Jewish. — #: She is not religious but still calls herself Jewish because of her family. — If something is Jewish it has to do with Judaism or with Jewish culture. This can also used for things that have to do with Jews. Gefilte, a kind of fish, is a Jewish food. The Talmud is a Jewish religious book. Israel is a Jewish country. Sternberg is a typically Jewish name.

Jewish

— adjective of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion He is Jewish a Jewish wedding

Synonyms Jewish synonyms

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Jewish English » English

Hebrew Judaic Jew semitic Hebraic Arabian judaic jewish Judea Judaistic Judaical Jewess Israelite Israeli

jewish English » English

youngster Jewish

Topics Jewish topics

What do people use Jewish to talk about?

Social behavior Religion Religious organization

Judaism

What words are used to talk about Judaism?

Judaism Jew Jewish Israel Torah Mishna rabbi synagogue kosher Passover Hanukkah Messiah Mosaic Law

Examples Jewish examples

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Simple sentences

Dustin Moskovitz is a Jewish entrepreneur. He is one of the co-founders of Facebook.

Is this a Jewish or a Catholic Bible?

He's a Jewish American.

She's a Jewish American.

I have a Jewish neighbor.

According to legend, the French composer Alkan was killed by a collapsing bookcase when he tried to reach for the Talmud, a holy Jewish book, in the study in his house.

The Jewish religious leadership required every Jewish individual to learn to read and study the Torah.

I'm not that Jewish.

Tom grew up in the New York Jewish community.

Tom's father was Jewish.

Passover is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the liberation of the Jews by God from slavery in Egypt.

Tom isn't Jewish.

Stella is a Hungarian Jewish woman.

When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

He's born from a Jewish mother and a Muslim father; this helped him much to develop a kind of openmindedness.

I'm not Jewish, but my father is.

God destroyed Jerusalem for breaking the fourth commandment by the Jewish people.

Movie subtitles

A chain hotel with vaguely French decor, and Italian food is being served tapas-style while a Filipino girl is marrying a Jewish guy, all with a lightly Arabian nights-style wedding.

A chain hotel with French decor and Italian food served tapas-style while a Filipino girl marries a Jewish guy in a lightly Arabian nights-style wedding.

Recha is not Jewish.

That's the Jewish neighborhood?

The Jewish soldier suffered a loss of memory and was in the hospital for years, unaware of the change in Tomainia.

He just referred to the Jewish people.

Jewish soldier. Been here since the war.

I don't want you to be seen in the Jewish Quarter.

My daughter will not bear Jewish children.

Dress Jewish.

Jewish immigrant, that in unclear circumstances became a president of acting for government Land and Public Works Society, next he took huge loans secured by false jewelry, and embezzled the money.

It's Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday.

You didn't know he was Jewish?

Well, yes, I guess I heard him say a couple of times about the Jewish people living off the fat of the land while he was out there.

In a Jewish store. - It suits you.

Wasn't Abraham Jewish?

Since that is the case, could you arrange a meeting between myself as head of the Jewish Council, and the governor-general?

Jewish or Muslim.

The Jewish soldier suffered a loss of memory and remained in hospital for years, ignorant of the change in Tomainia.

A reference to the Jewish people.

We Jewish people shouldn't get mixed up in such a business.

The Greek slave, a Jewish fisherman, our loyal tribune.

No, to a Jewish lady.

I am Jewish.

I had a weakness for Jewish girls until it became unfashionable.

I was born in Germany, but since my family is Jewish we emigrated to Holland when Hitler came to power.

Jewish soldier.

And then came a Jewish merchant. A stern person.

You had a Jewish wife?

I am Jewish and you are a British policeman.. a Christian.

He was a jewish fella.

I'm jewish.

She is Jewish and we need Moby Dick around.

Tell me, Father, what if he had made it back from Germany too, instead of just his wife that Jewish friend of yours who entrusted you with everything, what would you be today?

News and current affairs

For almost two generations, Abba Eban was Israel's voice - its messenger to the high and mighty among the nations as well as to the Jewish people all over the world.

Since he first appeared at the side of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the late 1940's during the struggle for Jewish statehood and sovereignty, few people could articulate the Zionist and later the Israeli case with comparable eloquence and conviction.

Yet in all probability he would have been even more deeply disappointed in the inability of the Palestinians to come to terms with the existence of the Jewish state.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's announcement that he plans to dismantle Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, as well as some settlements in the West Bank, has shocked and caught people off guard both in Israel and around the world.

Ideological hawks view the occupied territories as an integral part of the historical Land of Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people.

For them, the territories are part of the Jewish patrimony, which is why they insist on referring to the West Bank by its Hebrew historical appellation - Judea and Samaria.

For them, Jewish settlements in the territories are not a return to historical lands, but security outposts, aimed at preventing - or repelling from a better strategic position - an attack on the Israeli heartland.

For ideological hawks, compromises are treason: how can you jeopardize the historical patrimony of the Jewish people, let alone God's promise to Abraham?

Franz Joseph I stood up for his Jewish subjects when they were threatened by German anti-Semites.

Nor is the Jewish state of Israel, where Messianic fanatics and religious nationalists have embraced a political theology that questions the very legitimacy of the democratic institutions, immune from this phenomenon.

But there is also a more general sense of hostility to all things Jewish.

Palestine would be defined as a state of the Palestinian people, and Israel as a Jewish state.

The realization that withdrawal from populated areas, and thus an end to holding another people under permanent occupation, was necessary to preserve the Jewish nature of Israel clearly brought the two of you to the center of Israeli thinking.

For years, Ellwanger published anti-Semitic books, such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as well as books of Holocaust denial, such as his own Jewish or German Holocaust: Behind the Lie of the Century.

But this benign prospect was undermined by the violence needed to maintain the Jewish state and enable the emergence of a Palestinian one.

We are sincerely interested in the establishment of a Palestinian state living peacefully side-by-side with Israel, the democratic state of the Jewish people.

Jewish fundamentalists obstruct any peace process that is left in the Middle East and build more illegal settlements.

What is truly under threat in Europe is its Jewish community.

In 2012, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi were gunned down in Toulouse.

A month later, a French jihadist attacked the Jewish museum in Brussels, leaving three dead and one critically wounded.

For them, Israel's pre-1967 borders, the entire city of Jerusalem, and the West Bank of the Jordan River is land given to the Jewish people by God.

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