(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.
Kosher
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) London is seen as the home of publishing, a place that's kosher, where Dickens walked the streets."
(2) The FN has made political capital about cruelty to animals in the preparation of halal and kosher meat in the past, and its MEPs are preparing a resolution that would limit shale gas exploration, despite the party voting against a shale moratorium in the last parliament.
(3) The report also noted the practice of issuing "kosher certificates" indicating that no Arabs were employed by a business.
(4) A total of 147 people were killed in attacks in 2015 – from January’s gun attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices and a kosher grocery store to the coordinated gun and bomb attacks on 13 November .
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bastille Day truck attack: what happened in Nice One hundred and 47 people were killed in attacks in 2015 – from January’s gun attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices and a kosher grocery store to the coordinated gun and bomb attacks across Paris on 13 November .
(6) The parliamentary commission was set up to assess the failure to prevent a series of attacks that killed a total of 147 people in 2015 – from January’s gun attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices and a kosher grocery store to the coordinated gun and bomb attacks on 13 November outside the national sports stadium, at bars and restaurants and at a rock gig at the Bataclan concert hall.
(7) There has never been a big movement to demand halal or kosher meat in France – children who eat only halal or kosher either go home for lunch or attend private faith schools.
(8) Much more of this and voters will surely treat each announcement from the Department of Work and Pensions as about as kosher as a Tesco value burger.
(9) What about the rights of employees?” he asked at one point siding with the government, before going to express concern at the notion that companies would lose their right to appeal future restrictions over issues such as kosher butchery practices.
(10) In the video AQAP appears to avoid taking responsibility for the actions of Coulibaly, who shot dead a police officer and then four hostages in a kosher supermarket.
(11) The marvellous portrait of Manchester's Jewish community in ITV's Strictly Kosher is one example of how the media can help us to see the people around us as they really are.
(12) Danish intelligence services have suggested the fatal Copenhagen shooting of a film-maker at a freedom-of-speech debate and a Jewish security guard at a synagogue may have been a copycat of last month’s Paris attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.
(13) Many of the attackers in the January assault on Charlie Hebdo and a Paris kosher supermarket as well as in the massacres in November were known to French security services.
(14) After last week’s atrocious events in Paris , which claimed the lives of 17 innocent people including journalists, two policemen and a policewoman, a maintenance worker and four Jewish shoppers at a kosher supermarket, France, home to the largest Jewish population in Europe – somewhere between 500,000 and 600,000 people – faces a brutal reckoning about the future of its second largest ethno-religious minority.
(15) As France comes to terms with the problem of homegrown terrorism in the wake of January’s terrorist attacks in Paris, which began with a massacre at the magazine Charlie Hebdo and ended with a bloody siege at a kosher supermarket, there has been a renewed focus on the grim realities of France’s ghetto estates, dumped on the outskirts of cities and rife with discrimination, joblessness and poverty.
(16) Denmark’s spy chief, Jens Madsen, said the gunman – who was known to police because of past violence, gang-related activities and possession of weapons – had perhaps been trying to stage a copycat attack of the three days of bloody mayhem in Paris last month, which began with a massacre of cartoonists and others at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and ended in a murderous siege at a kosher supermarket.
(17) After Amedy Coulibaly murdered four shoppers in a kosher supermarket in Paris last month, and the earlier deadly attack on the Brussels Jewish museum, it is clear that Jewish communities across Europe are under threat from a hatred that may claim its origin in opposition to Israel and Zionism, but whose form resembles all too closely the dark history of antisemitism.
(18) Jindal’s remarks come in the wake of the massacre by Islamic extremists at a Paris magazine’s offices and subsequent attack on a kosher supermarket in the city.
(19) The latest row comes as the government tries to calm tensions and deal with rising antisemitism and Islamophobia after January’s terrorist attacks , which began with a massacre at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and ended with a bloody siege at a kosher supermarket.
(20) This statement provoked anger not only among Muslims, who felt they were being used as an electioneering tool, but also Jews whose kosher meat follows the same ritual ways of killing as halal meat.