How to Use Jewry in a Sentence

Jewry

noun
  • The great achievement of American Jewry in the last couple of decades has been the end of conditional acceptance.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2024-10-24
  • The Auschwitz killing center was just one part of the Nazis' vast effort to eliminate European Jewry.
    — Greg Schneider and Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat, Newsweek, 2025-01-27
  • The question facing world Jewry is no longer whether Israel will survive, Rabbi London said.
    — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 2023-04-20
  • For two, the previous surge was per Gilder himself a function of the arrival of brilliant Soviet Jewry.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 2024-09-18
  • Leaders of the Jewish Agency implied that the state represented world Jewry, not its citizens.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 2024-01-09
  • In this struggle between good and evil, Muslims have a religious obligation to resist Israel and global Jewry.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 2023-11-27
  • Carter’s image as a kindly elder statesman, friend to world Jewry and bulwark of Israel’s security took an immediate beating.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 2025-01-01
  • Approximately 50 percent of world Jewry lives in the state of Israel and roughly 50 percent live outside of Israel.
    — Scott Meltzer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-08-15
  • Advocating for the destruction of the country where almost half of world Jewry resides threatens the Jewish community with another genocide.
    — Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 2024-01-19
  • Together with an ever-expanding group of supporters, this odd couple began holding annual congresses to build momentum for the Zionist movement among global Jewry.
    — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 2025-04-28
  • Poland was the center of Ashkenazi Jewry before the Holocaust, but by the end of World War II, just 10% of the community remained.
    — George Ramsay, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
  • In all, over 50 presenters will tackle a host of issues from medical ethics to Jewish law, aspects of hostage negotiation, personal struggle and the road ahead for American Jewry.
    — Rabbi Mendel Mintz, Sun Sentinel, 2024-07-18
  • For more than two decades, the foundation has undertaken multifaceted efforts to solidify Israel’s relationship with American Jewry.
    — James Linhardt, Variety, 2023-10-27

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