gentile
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A rabbi and a gentile who fall in love?
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2024
“We reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans,” he said.
From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2023
Already aware that, being the daughter of a Jewish father and gentile mother, I was myself a demi-semite, I was worried.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2023
As he crossed the goal line, Singleton slowed to a gentile walk, barely leapt off the ground to chest-bump a teammate and lightly tossed the ball to an official.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022
My father, ever ingenious, found a way to trade our apartment for one a gentile friend had inside the ghetto, hoping the swap might provide better accommodations than any the Nazis would arrange.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech
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"Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began" by Art Spiegelman
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