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Jew

[joo] / dʒu /
NOUN
an adherent of Judaism
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Democrats lost their majority in 2024, but Mr. Schumer as minority leader is still the highest-ranking Jew in U.S. elective office.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

“Nothing in the world,” he wrote that year, “could make a poet give up poetry, even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

The tale of the Wandering Jew, whose origins can be traced back to Europe in the 1200s, has proved as undying as its main character.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Yet at the same time this weekend the ritual will feel different for every Jew in Britain.

From BBC May 2, 2026

In those days any Orthodox Jew who said he was a rabbi could preach and go around singing like a cantor and such.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride




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