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  • Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all share the same fundamental idea that there is only one God.   (source)
    Judaism = the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- whose believers are known as Jews
  • The first step: Jews would not be allowed to leave their houses for three days-on pain of death.   (source)
    Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
  • In the summer of 1941, the Einsatzgruppen drove deeper east, killing hundreds of thousands of Jews.   (source)
  • I was usually the only Korean in a room of young Jews and Chinese and Hispanics.   (source)
  • I was too young, I suppose, and too ignorant to make the connection between Judaism and Christianity.   (source)
    Judaism = the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- whose believers are known as Jews
  • When the fire had burned down to embers, the boys raided the pushcarts of the Jewish merchants and stole potatoes which they roasted in the ashes.   (source)
    Jewish = believers in Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or members of it's culture
  • I did seem to have a vague knowledge that Jews had been killed somewhere, long ago.†   (source)
  • Some of our newspapers printed stories that no Jews went to work at the World Trade Center that day.†   (source)
  • Genetics 101 Both sides of Dad's family were Jews from Russia and Poland.†   (source)
  • We began in a room with a video about Jews in Holland and the Nazi invasion and the Frank family.†   (source)
  • The bit about Israel used to draw the ire of Afghans in Fremont who accused him of being pro-Jewish and, de facto, anti Islam.†   (source)
  • Mary was a sweet Jewish broad who got herself knocked up!†   (source)
  • He even has people lift him up in a chair and dance with him around the room, because he had seen them do that at a Jewish friend's bar mitzvah.†   (source)
  • Then it flew east of Frankfurt, where a Jewish woman named Edith Frank was caring for her newborn, a girl named Anne.†   (source)
  • The Jewish people go there to mourn.†   (source)
  • Jake was Jewish, so he could not possibly be related to Samuel W. Westing.†   (source)
  • Hitler's excuse too for killing Jewish babies, as I recall.†   (source)
  • But she was Jewish.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's because they're Jewish?†   (source)
  • They may look like me, but for all of the Ivy League's obsession with diversity, virtually everyone—black, white, Jewish, Muslim, whatever— comes from intact families who never worry about money.†   (source)
  • Your crime is to be Jewish.†   (source)
  • "But darling, we're Jews.†   (source)
  • When my grandparents moved to the United States, in the 1950s, the South Bronx had already begun its transformation from a majority Jewish borough to one dominated by blacks and Latinos.†   (source)
  • Literally, the very center of the Jewish faith.†   (source)
  • Lee Adler is Jewish.†   (source)
  • He enjoyed some of the philosophies of Buddhism and Christianity, and he still felt at home, culturally, in Judaism.†   (source)
  • The Jackson Jews got to swim at the Colonial Country Club, the Negroes, in May's Lake.†   (source)
  • There were about a thousand Jews in Narewka.†   (source)
  • They asked him if he had ever seen any Jews before, "because we've been the first for about seventy-five percent of the people we've met."†   (source)
  • IS MISSUS LISH JEWISH?†   (source)
  • Jews Take Over Our Farmland.†   (source)
  • She says were not Jews but were poor and that's almost as dangerous.†   (source)
  • "Annemarie," he said, "Peter tells us that the Germans have issued orders closing many stores run by Jews."†   (source)
  • When you crucified that first-century Jewish peasant, we were watching.†   (source)
  • I only played a little in college with some Jewish friends.†   (source)
  • He faced a double genocide, of Jews by the Nazis and of peculiars by the hollowgast.†   (source)
  • All across Europe, Jewish people were being hunted.†   (source)
  • Ben is half-Jewish, half-Chinese, raised in Newton, close to where Gogol and Sonia grew up.†   (source)
  • All Jewish holidays are about remembering, Mama.†   (source)
  • All three knew about the research Nazis had done on Jewish prisoners.†   (source)
  • I only met Jacqueline van Maarsen when I started at the Jewish Lyceum, and now she's my best friend.†   (source)
  • There was a myth that Jewish generals didn't lose wars.†   (source)
  • You Jewish, Theodore?†   (source)
  • The butcher says, Are you a bit of an expert, missus, on the Jews and the pig.†   (source)
  • She's Jewish, you see.†   (source)
  • Her family was fleeing poverty and the persecution of Jews.†   (source)
  • But Lilly says it's the principle of the thing, and that maybe if people had made a big deal about how the Nazis smashed up Jewish people's store windows on Kristalnacht they wouldn't have ended up putting so many people in ovens.†   (source)
  • That's how Orthodox Jews mourn their dead.†   (source)
  • Soon, though, the fact that they were Jews would become the most important thing about them.†   (source)
  • Dad, why do Jews feel that things are… less important now than before the Hegira?†   (source)
  • Rich, for her part, addresses the earlier poet Robinson Jeffers in "Yom Kippur, 1984," in which she considers the implications of the Day of Atonement, and matters of Judaism appear in her poetry with some frequency.†   (source)
  • I took a deep breath and told him about going down in the mine and then what Dad had said about Wernher von Braun and Mr. Bykovski being a Jewish person.†   (source)
  • She talked to Yuko about it and they realized that this man, preaching to a thousand impressionable and trusting parishioners, didn't know, or didn't care, that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity were not-so-distantly related branches of the same monotheistic, Abrahamic faith.†   (source)
  • Judaism was just a loose collection of Yahwistic cults, each with different shrines and practices.†   (source)
  • We Jews are very partial to the piano.†   (source)
  • The school pulled in well-off white kids, a good number of whom were Jewish.†   (source)
  • They'd crossed over now from the section where mostly Italian people lived, to an area where it was all Jews.†   (source)
  • I could as easily have gone for help to a Jewish synagogue or a Shinto temple, or—Ah.†   (source)
  • I am Jewish, you know.†   (source)
  • At night, the corrugated doors of those shops are rolled down and padlocked, and the huddled masses take up residence on sidewalks "Los Angeles is a Beethoven city, but you have Walt Disney, Colonel Sanders, LAPD, the blacks, all the Yo-Yo Ma people, Jews, like JEW-hard, homosexuals.†   (source)
  • He became aware that the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism.†   (source)
  • As he was being accused of heresy before a Jewish court, they saw that "his face became as bright as an angel's.†   (source)
  • Black men, white men, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Jews, Poles, whatever—all were inadequate and weak, all came under their jaundiced eyes and were the recipients of their disinterested wrath.†   (source)
  • It seemed to me Buddy Willard and I were like that Jewish man and that nun, although of course we weren't Jewish or Catholic but Unitarian.†   (source)
  • She thinks of an article she read at the beauty salon, by a Jewish lady who survived a concentration camp.†   (source)
  • Iseman was the world's foremost clinical authority on the disease, and he worked in the world's best mdr treatment center, National Jewish in Denver.†   (source)
  • The woman was Jewish, and consequently Lobach was the father of a Jew in the midst of Nazi Germany.†   (source)
  • The nuns I glimpsed were robed and ghostly figures I wanted no part of Culturally we were like those Jews who observe certain traditions but never visit a synagogue.†   (source)
  • The Twelfth lost its eagle the first time way back in ancient days, during the Jewish Rebellion.†   (source)
  • One last thing: Hiram, my editor, felt the Miracle Max section was too Jewish in sound, too contemporary.†   (source)
  • Cheshvan, known as "the bitter month," is the only month without any Jewish holidays or fasts, making it an unholy month.†   (source)
  • There were ten white wooden crosses, even though one of the dead children-Justin Friedman-had been Jewish.†   (source)
  • Moslems believe that Moses was a prophet sent from God and that the Torah was God's law as presented to the Jews.†   (source)
  • Down with Jews.†   (source)
  • Then a little bit later he turned to being Jewish.†   (source)
  • " "Poles do not, in general, like Jews.†   (source)
  • The agencies—which include the International Rescue Committee, the organization founded in 1933 by Albert Einstein to help bring Jewish refugees from Europe to the United States, as well as World Relief, Lutheran Family Services, and others—are contracted by the government to help refugee families settle in to their new lives.†   (source)
  • But a few months later I was sleeping over, and she confessed that sometimes when she's upset about something she recites this Catholic bedtime prayer she memorized when she was little, even though she's half Jewish and doesn't even believe in God anyway.†   (source)
  • You are like the jews.†   (source)
  • This time around, the Klan was not confined to the South but ranged throughout the country; this time, it concerned itself not only with blacks but also with Catholics, Jews, communists, unionists, immigrants, agitators, and other disrupters of the status quo.†   (source)
  • This time they brought a telescope and a magnifying glass the size of a drum, which they exhibited as the latest discovery of the Jews of Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • He was Jewish, but sure, he'd come to church and lip-sync the hymns.†   (source)
  • He was old-time FBI, and couldn't help but wonder what Mr. Hoover would think of that, not to mention the new Jewish director.†   (source)
  • Illness in early childhood, marriage to a Jewish woman, science itself of course, cultural heritage—the allowable flush of Italian pride, only not so rousing in this case, attached to such destruction.†   (source)
  • When these kinds of passages arise in the Bible, Christians and Jews mostly shrug them off.†   (source)
  • "What really humbled me was how the response came from all sorts of people, from church groups, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • We didn't know if they were Jewish, Catholic or whatever, so we said a general committal: 'We commit you into the earth and the mercy of Almighty God.'†   (source)
  • In Toronto there were the Jews who opened their businesses to employ the Nisei.†   (source)
  • I ran to buy her a diamond brooch on the street of the Jewish jewelers.†   (source)
  • 'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger.†   (source)
  • One was an old, venerable white-haired guy with bifocals, another was some young brilliant Jewish guy, like one of the teachers he had at Jefferson.†   (source)
  • Since opinions vary, there are various kitsches: Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Communist, Fascist, democratic, feminist, European, American, national, international.†   (source)
  • So on this trip he carried two Madras nuns, three Cochin Jews, a Gujarati family, three suspicious-looking Malays, and a few Europeans, including two French sailors rejoining their ship in Aden.†   (source)
  • Every Orthodox Jew sent his male children to a yeshiva, a Jewish parochial school, where they studied from eight or nine in the morning to four or five in the evening.†   (source)
  • He'd exterminated six million Jews.†   (source)
  • The older man looked in the direction of the sound and then added, "And he's Jewish.†   (source)
  • Ahwal said her husband's family is Jewish and that Thanksgiving in their household is a mix of Jews and Arabs coming together with no uneasiness.†   (source)
  • Or was that said only of Jewish business?†   (source)
  • I wrote one good story—Jewish soldiers in Saudi Arabia were forced to pray in closets and had the Star of David removed from their dog tags—and about four truly bad ones.†   (source)
  • He's a terrible cook, but he thinks he's the Jewish Julia Child.†   (source)
  • That Paine had attempted to prove the unlawfulness of monarchy with analogies from the Bible, declaring monarchy to be "one of the sins of the Jews," struck Adams as ridiculous.†   (source)
  • Most often, the damage they do falls only on themselves, but there have been times when, in mobs, they have laid blame for the Plague on the sins of others—Jews, many times.†   (source)
  • I felt sorry for the Jews getting thrown out of Egypt and having to drag themselves across the desert to find a home.†   (source)
  • …men, all with black porkpie hats, beautiful sloe-eyed women, willow graceful in their turquoise or ruby or sapphire saris, others in chadors and others in jeans, men in business suits, men in shorts and bright polo shirts, four young Hasidic Jews arguing (but joyfully) over the most mystical of all documents (a Los Angeles freeway map), uniformed soldiers, giggling children and shrieking children and two placid octogenarians in wheelchairs, a pair of tall Arab princes in akals and…†   (source)
  • She rocked her on and on, past Dachau, where soul-gutted Jewish mothers swept their children's entrails off laboratory floors.†   (source)
  • And he told me about the concentration camps, and about how the Germans had made soap and candles out of the fat of dead Jews and so on.†   (source)
  • Jewish stores are sometimes defaced with swastikas.†   (source)
  • This reality, often described as the "closing" of the Western frontier, had a huge psychological impact just when Eastern cities were filling up with immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, many of them Catholics and Jews.†   (source)
  • Granny had been providing me with ham and sausage ever since Papa decided if the Lord thought hog meat was bad for the Jews, then we weren't going to eat it, either.†   (source)
  • Not that Suzanne didn't pride herself on knowing all about the Jewish holidays, not that she didn't love throwing around the Yiddish expressions she'd picked up from Miri's grandmother.†   (source)
  • Six hundred Protestants, one hundred Catholics, three Jews, two Greeks, one Puerto Rican.†   (source)
  • "But you don't look at all Jewish!"†   (source)
  • In the Bible, the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, and before that the Jews had slaves themselves.†   (source)
  • Once we got word the Germans were definitely coming for our Jewish brothers and sisters, we smuggled them to safe houses along the eastern coastline.†   (source)
  • Normally it's almost black and very curly which she says is because her dad was Jewish, although she doesn't practice his religion.†   (source)
  • "Jewish bankers run this country!" one of them shouted.†   (source)
  • As colonel of the 67th Ohio, Marcus Spiegel was the highest-ranking officer of the Jewish faith in the Ciyil War.†   (source)
  • "Jews squeeze the eagle till it screams," said Hollis.†   (source)
  • Despite Loonie mixture of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and ninety-nine other flavors, I suppose Sunday is commonest day for church.†   (source)
  • Centuries later, this tradition reemerged in the laws of the Jews under Moses, and became a well-known part of the Bible.†   (source)
  • The company was founded by his grandfather, Elias Fife, a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania who knew nothing about cars but saw an opportunity, in 1919, when he learned that many people were frustrated with Ford and the other car manufacturers because they never made enough replacement parts, since all the money was in building new cars.†   (source)
  • "We're Jewish, Natalie.†   (source)
  • His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like "the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo."†   (source)
  • Jon Marin, in spite of his name, looked and sounded like the epitome of a New York Jewish boy.†   (source)
  • This district is the largest contiguous planned community in the United States, and if you're black or Jewish, you weren't allowed to live there until 1948.†   (source)
  • You Jewish guy.†   (source)
  • Only 138 had marked Protestant, 100 Catholic, and 46 Jewish.†   (source)
  • Except for two Jewish families, they are ostracized from society in Hattiesburg.†   (source)
  • Have we watched Mohammed begin the Hegira, or Moses giving the Jews their laws?†   (source)
  • And descendants of English, Irish, Italian, Jewish, German, Polish are essentially American.†   (source)
  • Many of my classmates were Jewish, and some talked about relatives in Germany and what was happening to them under Hitler.†   (source)
  • The other Jews, just as talented, who went to bank for the Ottoman Empire, in Turkey or Egypt or wherever, didn't do so well.†   (source)
  • "In the ancient conflict of the Jews and the Babylonians," he said--but there he was cut off.†   (source)
  • Leamas guessed she was twenty-two or three, and Jewish.†   (source)
  • You can't imagine what the wretched Jewish population is going through in this war.†   (source)
  • A rocking chair betrayed reiterate strain, as of a defective lung; like a single note from a stupendous jews-harp, the chain of a porch swing twanged.†   (source)
  • Those whose kinsmen or former countrymen had been among the Jews, Poles, Czechs and other nationality groups terrorizedby Hitler and his cohorts were shocked.†   (source)
  • Haganah was the political authority of the Jewish National Movement in Palestine.†   (source)
  • He went up the stairs between two old warm Jewish women.†   (source)
  • The Talmud is Judaism's second-holiest book.
  • Ruth marveled that a Jewish mother would allow her son to put her in a place like this.†   (source)
  • I'll be sure to point any Jewish lycanthropes your way.†   (source)
  • "Next year, assuming my lungs hold out, we'll study Taoism, Hinduism, and Judaism together—"†   (source)
  • But Hana and George were the only Jewish children in the town.†   (source)
  • I learned about the Jewish diaspora and the strange history of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.†   (source)
  • She's not even Jewish!" or, "They'll fire you if you're not meek as mice!" or even, "Mr.†   (source)
  • Because you have Jewish Mafiya coming to your house, is why!†   (source)
  • "They're obviously all traditional Jewish names.†   (source)
  • Escape is almost impossible; many people look Jewish, and they're branded by their shorn heads.†   (source)
  • However, Masons were also Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and those who had no name for their God.†   (source)
  • For Hyman's lawsuits, see William A. Hyman v. Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (42 Misc.†   (source)
  • Only 5,000 of the deported Dutch Jews, a wall label explained, had survived.†   (source)
  • For a long time, South Africa refused to take in any more Jewish refugees.†   (source)
  • But what really bothered Rauter was that he hadn't managed to get all the Jews out.†   (source)
  • As Wald says: "Jewish lawyers were lucky and they helped themselves.†   (source)
  • We learned not only about Islam but also about Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism.†   (source)
  • They are part of the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.†   (source)
  • "But Jews maintain their ethnic and religious identity in some places," his daughter insisted.†   (source)
  • They know that the Jews are escaping, but they are not sure how, and they rarely find them.†   (source)
  • They were strong supporters of a movement to establish a Jewish state in Israel.†   (source)
  • As for the owner of the club, he was a Jewish fellow from Miami.†   (source)
  • He's Jewish—a blue-blood Georgia Jew, the only Jew in the Oglethorpe Club.†   (source)
  • The peculiarity for which they'd been hunted was simply their Jewishness.†   (source)
  • There were reports that Jews beaten in the streets had been hospitalized only to be beaten again.†   (source)
  • Jews who lived outside the area were in an unfortunate situation.†   (source)
  • It doesn't mean Jewish, those would be yellow stars.†   (source)
  • And if nobody plays well, then the game becomes like Jewish mah jong.†   (source)
  • Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I was not a Jew.†   (source)
  • The teachings of Jesus therefore represented a liberation from the orthodoxy of Judaism.†   (source)
  • There were a few Jewish lowriders I talked with in auto shop.†   (source)
  • Judaism was the first of the rational religions.†   (source)
  • It wasn't long till the soldiers came with the Jews.†   (source)
  • People that tell the Jackboots where Jews are hiding.†   (source)
  • "You're the finest young man who ever worked for me, even if you aren't Jewish."†   (source)
  • She wasn't Jewish and she had four or five kids.†   (source)
  • You are saying Ruth and Sarah are to be dismissed on the grounds that they are Jewish?†   (source)
  • But I want it to be in a Jewish cemetery.†   (source)
  • Jewish is, Jewish is people with their own stories.†   (source)
  • A descendant of King Solomon—King of the Jews.†   (source)
  • The only visible wisp of discord was the broken glass in the windows of Jewish businesses.†   (source)
  • There are not a lot of Jewish mothers in our town or that many Jewish kids at our school.†   (source)
  • Some are bankers and bookies, Americans and Iraqis, Jews and Palestinians.†   (source)
  • They stayed at small camp with hundreds of other Jews like them.†   (source)
  • "So what's the difference between Chinese and Jewish mah jong?"†   (source)
  • They loved anything different, or new, or from out of town, except for Jews.†   (source)
  • "But the Oglethorpe Club does admit Jews," said the woman.†   (source)
  • I chose the professor of my Jewish history class, because he was quiet and soft-spoken.†   (source)
  • They do not know from the Jewish calendar in Lublin?†   (source)
  • For some reason, they want to torment Jewish people.†   (source)
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