How to Use non-Jewish in a Sentence

non-Jewish

adjective
  • Meanwhile, their non-Jewish friends, families and co-workers are busy and much of the world is closed.
    — Samira Mehta, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Some non-Jewish social clubs used the halls for events and welcomed Jewish attendees.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 May 2026
  • His non-Jewish classmate Sofia Bordei, 17, agreed.
    — Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Letter writer blames sister-in-law for brother’s non-Jewish funeral plans.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Washington Post, 7 May 2026
  • The list does not include translations used by Catholics or sacred texts from non-Jewish and non-Christian faiths.
    — Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 29 June 2026
  • The list does not include translations used by Catholics or sacred texts from non-Jewish and non-Christian faiths.
    — Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The park was a stereotype of Jewish and non-Jewish families who, for the most part, played separately and nicely.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Foxman faced criticism that the ADL put too many resources into non-Jewish issues.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • The talk was also enjoyed by non-Jewish residents of Eskaton such as Bert Donlon.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The club permitted various non-Jewish groups to use its meeting halls, which enhanced relations between the communities.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 May 2026
  • Their leadership helped expand social services and support networks for both Jewish and non-Jewish residents.
    — Jason Touvi, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The housing laws included exceptions that favored the new, non-Jewish tenants, such as Allied bombing victims and former prisoners of war.
    — Shannon Fogg, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
  • One urged Jews to join the partisans and head to the forest to fight; the other was for non-Jewish, Russian-speaking Poles urging them to join the partisans.
    — Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The effort ultimately failed because the Wertheimers had earlier transferred their ownership to a non-Jewish associate.
    — Alicja Zelazko, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Royal sells to Total Wine, one of the largest wine chains in the country, which has expanded its Israeli wine offerings and actively promotes them to a broad, largely non-Jewish customer base.
    — Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The state also ranked fourth nationally for incidents at universities and non-Jewish K-12 schools, the organization stated.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026
  • This program is designed specifically for eighth-graders in Broward County public schools (or any non-Jewish private schools) who want to experience Israel before entering high school.
    — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Despite the rise in anti-Jewish hate across the world, many of the mayors touted Miami as one of the safest places for Jews to live aside from Israel, in part because of the allyship from non-Jewish leaders.
    — Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • On Netflix's Nobody Wants This, the actor portrays a rabbi named Noah, who is dating a non-Jewish podcaster (Kristen Bell).
    — Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Now that Joanne doesn’t need to learn Judaism 101, the narrative is more about the trickiness of relationships in their various stages than a non-Jewish person encountering the religion for the first time.
    — Esther Zuckerman, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
  • His inclusive values earned him the AJC’s Judge Learned Hand Award, a distinction not often given to non-Jewish individuals.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The big toy that season was a pliable putty invented twenty years earlier by a man with the distinctly non-Jewish name of McVicker to clean coal soot from wallpaper, then rebranded, for children, as Play-Doh.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Surrounding her were Jewish and non-Jewish friends of all ages, all of whom had come together to celebrate the second annual Jewish Catskills Weekend, and to share their appreciation for the power of food to unify.
    — Lea Donenberg, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2025
  • German Jews—my people—were far less numerous, most of them came to the United States earlier, and their typical first occupation was peddling, which entailed wandering through non-Jewish areas, not living in tenements.
    — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
  • One of the standout stars of the popular series, which follows the relationship between a rabbi and a non-Jewish woman, Tohn plays the rabbi’s sister-in-law, Esther Roklov — and she is headed to South Florida.
    — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Advertisement It is currently forbidden for Jewish people to openly pray at the site in order to avoid provoking conflict with other, non-Jewish worshippers, but they are allowed to visit alongside Israeli security.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Jewish women, of course, were targeted for their religious identities, but non-Jewish women could be dismissed simply for being female, especially if they were seen as political opponents of Nazism or as sympathetic to their Jewish colleagues.
    — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
  • In 1992, Zubin Mehta, the non-Jewish longtime music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, won a special prize for his contributions to the state.
    — Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
  • So far, the program, which is open to both Jewish and non-Jewish applicants, has distributed loans of up to $10,000 to applicants leaving states including Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and Iowa.
    — Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026
  • That pathway, Saks argues, involves co-officiation with clergy or representatives from the non-Jewish partner’s tradition, symbolizing mutual respect and rejecting the idea that the other tradition is inherently a threat to Judaism.
    — Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025

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