Jewish community

Local synagogue membership

A Jewish community is a group of Jewish people living in a particular place or sharing common bonds of identity, tradition, and mutual support.

The term often refers to the organized social, religious, and cultural institutions serving Jewish residents of an area: The Jewish community rallied to support the local synagogue.

It can also designate Jews collectively within a city, country, or worldwide: leaders of the American Jewish community.

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religious/ethnic identity

Jewish communityChristian community

Believers gathered in fellowship

Muslim community · Islamic community · Hindu community · Buddhist community · Catholic community

collective vs. individual

Jewish communityindividual

One separate human being

nuclear family

insider vs. outsider status

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Non-Jews, in Hebrew

outsiders · dominant culture

Family

community, Jewish

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