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Jew

noun as in an adherent of Judaism

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And Americans—including American Jews—have often avoided the subject: After all, Jews elsewhere in the world had it much worse, and Jews thrived in the U.S. despite every obstacle.

That view echoes Europe’s habit of seeing Jews not as citizens with agency but as objects of history, dependent on their hosts’ goodwill.

An Irishman and a Jew walk into a Japanese restaurant.

Ayoub Khan, whose Birmingham Perry Barr constituency is home to the Villa Park Stadium, has claimed there was a "deliberate disingenuous move by many to make this a matter of banning Jews".

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The King, who wore a traditional kippah, displayed by Jews as a sign of Jewish identity, met all three people who survived the attack, in which Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby were killed.

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