(n.) A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) Not even the Bible account claims that the Israelites were employed as slaves to build the pyramids as they are in Hollywood.
(3) Thursday’s shooting took place during Sukkot, a weeklong festival that celebrates the autumn harvest and commemorates the wandering of the ancient Israelites through the desert following the exodus from Egypt.
(4) Indeed, many political analysts and opinion leaders worldwide describe him as the Biblical Joshua who took the mantle of leadership from Moses just as the Israelites were on the verge of entering Canaan and capably established the then fugitives in the Promised Land.” For now, the hundreds of thousands of fugitives forced from their homes and scattered around the young country have little more than hope and, if they are lucky, some food rations.
(5) The Israelites would just have said to themselves: “That Moses.
(6) It is not even an unwillingness on our part, our hearts hardened towards the unemployed like a Pharoah’s towards the Israelites.
(7) Moses shrinks from his task, as the Israelites themselves shrink from his leadership and grumble as he leads them into the desert.
(8) Joel Edgerton will play Ramses, the Egyptian pharaoh who orders that all newborn boys be thrown into the Nile through fear of the Israelites' growing population.
(9) The American civil rights movement could be seen as an attempt to re-imagine black Americans as Israelite slaves, led out of bondage to the promised land.
(10) The night ended with Tony James and Sham 69 singing The Israelites with Misty in Roots, and it was so celebratory because the gang had gone.
(11) Director: Terry Jones Entertainment grade: A History grade: C Monty Python's Life of Brian follows the story of Brian Cohen, a half-Roman, half-Israelite man, living in Judea in AD 33, on a Saturday afternoon, at around teatime.
(12) All patients were of Israelite-Sephardin origin except two (Armenian and French); they were from North-Africa (Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria) and Israël.
(13) Christians and Jews are taught that Moses parted the Red Sea and led the Israelites to the promised land.
(14) He is horrified when God tells him to return to Egypt and lead the Israelites out, and arranges for his brother Aaron to be the front man and deliver the speeches.
(15) Its obviousness was appropriately mocked by Christopher Hitchens, but my imagination hears the response of the Israelites to Moses in the voice of Basil Fawlty: "Oh I SEE.
(16) It is not the Israelites leaving Egypt – Moses and Aaron are nowhere to be seen.
(17) The dying man is Holofernes, an enemy of the Israelites in the Old Testament, and the young woman beheading him is Judith, his divinely appointed assassin.
Jewish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews; characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs; Israelitish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychological well-being and the level of psychological autonomy were studied in a group of 109 Jewish late adolescents in the USSR.
(2) There is no difference between (Arab) blood and (Jewish) blood.
(3) The Nazi party’s office of racial purity claimed that the Jewish character was essentially drug-dependent.
(4) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(5) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(6) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
(7) Recently, a gene for ITD (DYT1) in a non-Jewish kindred was located on chromosome 9q32-34, with tight linkage to the gene encoding gelsolin (GSN).
(8) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
(9) The killing took place shortly after three Jewish youths, who had been kidnapped in the West Bank, were found murdered near Hebron.
(10) I work in the Jewish community, from visible and identifiably Jewish buildings.
(11) Despite the language of technocrats like Florian Philippot, the Front National is still the Front National, a party that’s racist, anti-semitic and extreme-right,” Sacha Ghozlan, of the Union of Jewish students of France, told Le Monde at the protest.
(12) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(13) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(14) To the best of our knowledge this represents the first report of primary biliary cirrhosis in the Jewish population in Israel.
(15) A cabinet majority is pushing for a new law that would “legalize” the illegal Jewish outposts on the West Bank – illegal even by Israeli standards because they were built on private Palestinian land.
(16) The pattern among the subgroups of the Jewish population varied with age.
(17) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(18) His recent play was about a young man exploring his eastern European Jewish heritage – "narcissism dressed up as history" is how Eisenberg dismisses this personal interest of his – and he has specialised in playing nervy, nerdy characters.
(19) Of course, students need to be aware there is a “Jewish story” and an “Arab story”, as Michael Davies’ article points out ( Education , 6 October), just as they need to be aware there are always different narratives in conflict situations, like colonialism.
(20) Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic treatment seems to be close to the jewish religion.