Jews
Synagogue congregation members
Jews are members of an ethnic group and religious tradition originating in the ancient Near East.
Jewish identity can be inherited (traditionally through the mother) or acquired through religious conversion.
The term encompasses religious Jews who practice Judaism and secular Jews connected through ancestry and culture.
The Jews of medieval Spain developed a distinctive literary tradition.
Jew as a verb meaning to haggle or cheat is an ethnic slur.
Judaism's core scripture
- TalmudRabbinic law compilation
- synagogueJewish house of worship
- rabbiJewish spiritual leader
- kosherPermissible by Jewish law
Shabbat · mitzvah · halacha · Yom Kippur · Rosh Hashanah · Passover · Hanukkah · Sukkot
Jewish adulthood ceremony
- bat mitzvahFemale Jewish adulthood rite
- brisJewish circumcision ceremony
- Passover sederJewish spring festival meal
- challahBraided ceremonial Jewish bread
matzah · latkes · hamantaschen · kiddush · havdalah · shofar · dreidel · gelt
Ashkenazi Jewish language
- klezmerTraditional Ashkenazi folk music
- bagelBoiled, then baked roll
- loxSalt-cured salmon
- pastramiSeasoned smoked beef
gefilte fish · kugel · borscht · knish · hummus · falafel · Ashkenazi · Sephardi
Jews of European descent
- SephardiJew of Iberian descent
- Pale of SettlementMandated Jewish territory, Russia
- shtetlHistoric Jewish village
- ghettoSegregated urban quarter
expulsion · pogrom · assimilation · emancipation · Zionism · wandering · exile
Mass departure from a place
- TempleNamed religious structure
- MaccabeesJudean revolt leaders
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
- expulsionForced permanent removal
pogrom · ghetto · Pale of Settlement · emancipation · Dreyfus affair · Holocaust · Shoah · concentration camps
Advocacy for Hebrew homeland
- AliyahJewish return to Israel
- JerusalemTriply sacred ancient capital
- Tel AvivIsraeli Mediterranean port city
- KnessetIsraeli parliamentary body
kibbutz · sabra · Negev · Galilee · Dead Sea · Western Wall · Golda Meir · Yitzhak Rabin
Torah
Judaism's core scripture
kosher · Shabbat · mitzvah · halacha · Yom Kippur · Rosh Hashanah · Passover · Hanukkah · Sukkot · Purim
bar mitzvah
Jewish adulthood ceremony
- bat mitzvahFemale Jewish adulthood rite
- brisJewish circumcision ceremony
- Passover sederJewish spring festival meal
challah · matzah · latkes · hamantaschen · kiddush · havdalah · shofar · dreidel · gelt · horah
Yiddish
Ashkenazi Jewish language
pastrami · gefilte fish · kugel · borscht · knish · hummus · falafel · Ashkenazi · Sephardi · Ladino
Ashkenazi
Jews of European descent
- SephardiJew of Iberian descent
- Pale of SettlementMandated Jewish territory, Russia
- shtetlHistoric Jewish village
ghetto · expulsion · pogrom · assimilation · emancipation · Zionism · wandering · exile
Exodus
Mass departure from a place
- TempleNamed religious structure
- MaccabeesJudean revolt leaders
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
expulsion · pogrom · ghetto · Pale of Settlement · emancipation · Dreyfus affair · Holocaust · Shoah · concentration camps · resistance
Zionism
Advocacy for Hebrew homeland
- AliyahJewish return to Israel
- JerusalemTriply sacred ancient capital
- Tel AvivIsraeli Mediterranean port city
Knesset · kibbutz · sabra · Negev · Galilee · Dead Sea · Western Wall · Golda Meir · Yitzhak Rabin · Six-Day War
- FaithsChristians, Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
- Biblical PeoplesIsraelites, Israelite, Hebrews, Canaanite, Philistine
- early churchapostles, early church, Church Fathers, apostolic fathers, Acts of the Apostles
- ethnic groupsArabs, Chinese, Irish, Greeks, Russians
- IsraelitesJacob, twelve tribes, Israelites, tribe of Judah, Levites
Jewsnon-Jews
People not of Hebrew faith
goyim · Christians · Muslims · pagans · heathens
- Jewish customsTraditional practices of Judaism
- Jewish holidayHebrew calendar observance
- Jewish deliTraditional kosher-style restaurant
- Jewish lawReligious legal code of Judaism
- Jewish communityLocal Hebrew religious population
- Jewish cultureTraditions of the Hebrews
Jewish, Jew, Jewry, Jewishness