How to Use Judaism in a Sentence

Judaism

noun
  • Judaism is meant to be lived, not perfected.
    — Sophie Liza Cannon, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • They’d been raised to care deeply about Judaism and Israel.
    — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 2024-03-13
  • Because these people who are loving the show have to love some aspect of Judaism.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-10-14
  • Rabbinic Judaism does not regard the fetus as a full human being.
    — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 2024-04-25
  • The site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, is the holiest site in Judaism.
    — Tia Goldenberg and Isaac Scharf, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-07-27
  • Jerusalem is mentioned more than 600 times in Judaism’s holy books but not once in the Koran.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2024-07-13
  • The site, which is known to Jews as the Temple Mount, is the holiest place in Judaism.
    — Tamar Michaelis, CNN Money, 2025-04-17
  • Harry and his bride, who converted to Judaism for him, share two daughters, Lily and Rose.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 2025-03-08
  • Both Judaism and Christianity took this to mean that each person has something of the divine in them.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 2024-12-07
  • Historic turning point There were tensions in Rabbinic Judaism from the outset.
    — Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 2023-06-15
  • People staked out their own places at the Kotel—the holiest spot in Judaism—and prayed with unusual personal space.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 2024-07-09
  • What’s at stake instead is the idea of empathy, a central value in Edelman’s vision of Judaism.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 2023-06-27
  • But the movie still leaves me worried about the role of b’nai mitzvah in American Judaism — and its implications.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2023-09-07
  • Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is considered the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
    — Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 2023-08-28
  • The Seder plate There are variations on Passover practices by the many different types of Judaism.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 2025-04-11
  • The mosque is part of Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism where two biblical Temples once stood.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2024-03-11
  • Competing visions of and attitudes toward Judaism arise.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism which focuses on atonement, begins Oct. 11.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 2024-10-03
  • The last couple years have been marked by intense and often rancorous debates around Judaism, within both the community writ large and nuclear units like the Schwoopers.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Judaism was legalistic rather than faithful, material and not spiritual, concerned with the immanent rather than the eternal.
    — Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Owens has woven the Frank case into a broader antisemitic narrative that alleges that Judaism and the state of Israel promote pedophilia.
    — Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Kalman says that Judaism’s longstanding flexibility in assigning personhood opens space to consider degrees of personhood for machines that appear to possess agency.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Long before neuroscience mapped REM cycles and cortisol curves, Judaism recognized sleep as a profound human need—both physical and spiritual.
    — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The finale concluded with Noah making the drastic decision to continue their relationship despite his promotion to head rabbi and Joanne's decision not to convert to Judaism.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Over the weekend, Jews around the world observed Tisha B’av, Judaism’s day of mourning that commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • JewBelong, based in New York, is an online platform promoting religious tolerance and spreading information about Judaism that also uses billboards and billboard trucks to spread its message.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2025
  • With the exception of Shira’s wife Kendra (Nicole Byer), whose conversion to Judaism forms the arc of a stellar spotlight episode, the majority of Jewish characters were voiced by Jewish actors.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In Long Story Short, Judaism is religious, but it’s as often treated as cultural, mystical and epigenetic, a series of practices and traditions that connect a disjointed people to happiness and trauma, that bring comfort and discomfort alike.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
  • If not Irish voices, please please please stop and listen to Jewish ones — from the high mindedness of Rabbi Sharon Brous, to the tearful comedy of the Grody-Patinkin family — who fear the damage to Judaism, as well as Israel’s neighbours.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
  • If not Irish voices, please please please stop and listen to Jewish ones - from the high mindedness of Rabbi Sharon Brous, to the tearful comedy of the Grody-Patinkin family - who fear the damage to Judaism, as well as Israel's neighbours.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 10 Aug. 2025

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