How to Use mezuzah in a Sentence

mezuzah

noun
  • His most popular TikTok videos are on subjects such as how to put on a prayer shawl or hang up a mezuzah.
    — Ingrid Ahlgren, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2023
  • In Nevada, there are Jews who have hidden any signs of their faith, painting over the mezuzahs that hang outside their homes.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Myers’ mezuzah is in two pieces, snapped when police swarming the synagogue broke down the door during their rescue effort.
    — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Traditionally, a mezuzah is hung outside of the home or a personal living space.
    — Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The family had mezuzahs, which are pieces of parchment inscribed with Hebrew verse from the Torah, on their doors, police said.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • This elegant and feminine nickel-plate mezuzah features twisting branches and leaf details.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 31 Jan. 2023
  • But mezuzahs have been tolerated forever, and at Christmas time, wreaths are tolerated, okay?
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 14 Aug. 2025
  • This plaque was created to commemorate the mezuzah project the congregation had in March and features the names of the donors who made the event possible.
    — Sergio Carmona, Jewish Journal, 22 June 2017
  • His explanation of a mezuzah to the handyman preparing to install one outside Larry’s front door is a practical blasphemy.
    — Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The 98-year-old said he was recently targeted in Toronto when mezuzahs (sacred parchment scrolls) were forcibly removed from apartment doors in his building.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Some have sought her advice about the safety of keeping their mezuzahs publicly displayed on their doorposts and about discussing Israel with their non-Jewish relatives.
    — Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The famed jazz musician was reputed to wear a Magen David and have a mezuzah on his door, said the musicologist, John Baron.
    — sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Pomegranates have religious significance in Jewish tradition, so this elegant mezuzah is a doubly meaningful gift.
    — Cai Cramer, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • In February, a haredi journalist lamented a photo of Kariv hanging a mezuzah on the doorway of Labor’s headquarters.
    — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Our picks include traditional, religious gifts (such as a mezuzah, kiddush cup, and tzedakah box), as well as plenty of nonreligious gifts (like a bank, Bluetooth speaker, and even a light-up basketball).
    — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The first book is a do-it-yourself guide to understanding every aspect of the Jewish faith from keeping Kosher to affixing a mezuzah on the doorpost of a home and every other ritual and practice in between.
    — Alan Goch, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Roubeni made a name for himself among the Jewish Chinese-speakers in recent months after starting a fundraiser to get mezuzahs for Shanghai’s small Jewish student community.
    — Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The Jewish identity of the characters is omnipresent, especially in shots that include mezuzahs, menorahs and even the hamsa symbol, which dangles from the rearview mirror of the Hazans’ delivery truck.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 10 July 2019
  • Other combatants travel with mezuzahs, small boxes containing biblical Scriptures meant to be hung outside Jewish residences, to affix to Palestinian homes.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Beth Am commemorated the completion of its renovation with a Rededication program, culminating in the mezuzah ritual.
    — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 17 Nov. 2019

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