Jewish is an English word with synonyms like judaic or person. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Jewish meaning
- Following the religion of Judaism.
- Of or relating to Jews, their ethnicities or cultures.
- Greedy, miserly.
Using Jewish
- The main meaning on this page is: Following the religion of Judaism. | Of or relating to Jews, their ethnicities or cultures. | Greedy, miserly.
- Useful related words include: judaic, person, individual, someone.
- In the example corpus, jewish often appears in combinations such as: the jewish, of jewish, jewish community.
Context around Jewish
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 7 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jewish
- In this selection, "jewish" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, american, born, sydney, community, people and institutions stand out and add context to how "jewish" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 6 700 jewish students u, a new jewish museum in, jewish community, jewish people and american jewish. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jewish" sits close to words such as standing, shop and deputy, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jewish
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I care as deeply about Jewish welfare, Jewish dignity, Jewish safety as Bret and Einat do. (16 words)
With 6,700 Jewish students, U-M has robust Jewish representation and an incredibly rich Jewish life, he says. (19 words)
Friday night in the holy of Jerusalem, as you might expect, is Jewish on top of Jewish on top of Jewish. (21 words)
A new Jewish museum in Cyprus aims to be a bridge-builder to the Arab world and beyond, a place where visitors who may never set foot in Israel can learn about the Jewish faith, the Holocaust and the tumultuous beginnings of the Jewish state. (45 words)
This is where Jewish history comes in. Hanbury’s husband David, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, is the grandson of Sybil Sassoon — a member of the influential Baghdadi Jewish family and also a member of the Rothschilds, the prominent Jewish banking family. (41 words)
In reports published this week at its annual Washington meeting, the group urged a radical shift among its constituent Jewish community relations councils, which advocate for Jewish issues on behalf of the Jewish community at the local level. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The child of a Jewish mother is born Jewish; the child of a Jewish father is born Jewish if and only if the mother is Jewish.
The action plan states that “the string of attacks on Jewish institutions, Jewish businesses, and Jewish university students is an attempt to terrorize Jewish Canadians and prevent them from participating in everyday life.
There will be Jewish people who get fired, Jewish small businesses who will go under, Jewish elderly, Jewish people with disabilities,” Pesner said.
Jewish observances Jewish ethics main Jewish ethics may be guided by halakhic traditions, by other moral principles, or by central Jewish virtues.
As a Jewish student, I feel the pain of the Jewish community and wanted to share the Jewish student perspective, especially because of the incredibly polarized atmosphere at NYU.
His mother is not and has never been Jewish, meaning he was not Jewish from birth and would not be Jewish unless he completed an approved religious conversion.
I am concerned that American Jewish leaders do little to try to influence Jews to be more Jewish — more learned in Torah, more observant of mitzvot, more inclined to marry Jews and have Jewish children and grandchildren.
Jason Holtzman, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council at the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, said Tuesday that a meeting between the archeparchy and local Jewish organizations is scheduled for later this month.
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Darren Bark, Sydney Jewish Museums resident historian Emeritus Professor Konrad Kwiet and Sydney Jewish Museum CEO Kevin Sumption when their findings were presented at Wollongong Art Gallery in March, 2023.
Putin also told forum attendees he had "a lot of Jewish friends" who had told him "that Zelensky is not Jewish, that he is a disgrace to the Jewish people".
When Jewish Phish fans have Jewish experiences at Phish shows, they are urging us to reconsider how we understand contemporary American Jewish identities.
Friday night in the holy of Jerusalem, as you might expect, is Jewish on top of Jewish on top of Jewish.
The movie presents the Jewish perspective on the founding of the State of Israel through characters who are either Jewish themselves or who are connected to the Jewish community.
The updated policy was also praised by a number of other Jewish organizations, including StopAntisemitism, the Campaign Against Antisemitism, the European Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee.
This is where Jewish history comes in. Hanbury’s husband David, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, is the grandson of Sybil Sassoon — a member of the influential Baghdadi Jewish family and also a member of the Rothschilds, the prominent Jewish banking family.
But in reality, unless Jewish institutions take concrete steps to cast out bigotry and welcome Jewish-Muslim collaboration, and unless Jewish authenticity stops being adjudicated by political disagreements, Klein will win the war, too.
I care as deeply about Jewish welfare, Jewish dignity, Jewish safety as Bret and Einat do.
In reports published this week at its annual Washington meeting, the group urged a radical shift among its constituent Jewish community relations councils, which advocate for Jewish issues on behalf of the Jewish community at the local level.
With 6,700 Jewish students, U-M has robust Jewish representation and an incredibly rich Jewish life, he says.
A new Jewish museum in Cyprus aims to be a bridge-builder to the Arab world and beyond, a place where visitors who may never set foot in Israel can learn about the Jewish faith, the Holocaust and the tumultuous beginnings of the Jewish state.
Phrases with jewish
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with jewish
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the jewish 84×
- of jewish 37×
- jewish community 34×
- jewish people 19×
- and jewish 14×
- jewish state 13×
- american jewish 12×
- to jewish 10×
- other jewish 9×
- with jewish 9×