How to Use Jew in a Sentence

Jew

noun
  • Noni was white, a Jew from a small town in Iowa who’d majored in fine arts.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Filler-Corn had been the first woman and first Jew to serve as speaker of the Virginia House.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2023
  • But would the country accept the first Jew and the first woman on a ticket in the same person?
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Sep. 2024
  • But to be a Jew in Paris in the late 1930s is to live within the loop of an ever-tightening noose.
    Lauren Elkin, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • Theodor Kramer was a poet in Vienna in the thirties, a Jew.
    Lore Segal, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Louis lost his job when the Nuremberg Laws were adopted in 1935; as a Jew he was barred from teaching in a state school.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • David arrived nine months later, a 16-year-old Polish Jew who loved to sing.
    Keren Blankfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Even more so when Sandy Koufax, a fellow Jew, was pitching.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • The Soviet Union was a terrible place to be a Jew; god, was the fruit delicious.
    Ruth Madievsky, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2023
  • Jesus of Nazareth was a practicing Jew who arrived in Jerusalem for Passover the week of his death nearly 2,000 years ago.
    Greg Garrison | , al, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Every innocent person on death row is like a Jew in Auschwitz.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 June 2024
  • Those who use this as an excuse to hate Jews tend to forget that Jesus, in His earthly body, was a Jew, and therefore loved them.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Larry is unsettled, as a Jew, by the militant posters on the restaurant’s walls.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • However, Chef Jew says the seed for a partnership was planted many years ago.
    Kelsey Mulvey, Sunset Magazine, 27 Aug. 2024
  • Shapiro is an observant Jew and would be the first Jewish vice president.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Hahn, working in Nazi Germany, wasn't supposed to be exchanging ideas with a Jew.
    Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Thus, the biblical lawgiver made sure that no Jew would ever get a perfect 10 in the test of the commandments.
    Joseph Berger, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The idea of Jews living in postwar Gaza may seem improbable, but Gaza hasn’t always been Jew-free.
    Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Heinrich Heine, whose poem the statue commemorates, was a satirist and a Jew.
    Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • An Iranian Jew, her parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s.
    Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Mark said that, as a Jew, he’s recently felt frustrated at the lack of support and the narratives arising from the conflict.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • As a Jew and a Communist activist, he had been threatened with prison and execution in Iraq.
    Joseph Berger, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Over the past year, the word has become an alternative for Jew in order to mask underlying hate.
    Marc Levine, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
  • New Jersey suffered the third most incidents of Jew-hatred in the country, according to the report.
    Mike Wagenheim, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And so along with the European image of the shape-shifting and deceptive Jew came the companion image of the Jew as farseeing and noble sage.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • One notable Jew, Simon Zukas, played a key role in Zambia’s struggle for independence in the 1950s.
    Harry D. Wall, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2024
  • And still, for Mandelbaum, the Nazi as much as the Jew was a possible avatar — because every drawing was a self-portrait, and art could be nothing else.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Some of the reforms backer want to create a stricter definition of what kind of Jew can become a citizen.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • Once, among the thousands waiting in the fast-moving line, stood an elderly Jew named Zalman Teibel, escorted by a nurse who held him up.
    Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • 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

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