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Examples

  • While some in the non-Jewish press noticed that Jewish athletes shared with African Americans a “natural” facility with their bodies, many prominent Jews steered attention to their upstanding demeanor.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • She was married under a chuppah wedding canopy by a rabbi, albeit to a non-Jewish man.

    Rabbi Jason Miller: Is Gabby Giffords Jewish Enough? Rabbi Jason Miller 2011

  • Ibrahim HewittSenior editor, Middle East Monitor• While Arab regimes are oppressive to maintain the governments in power, Israel's oppression goes to the heart of its existence as a state to which Jews from around the world have more right to live than the native non-Jewish population.

    Letters: Israel's conduct under the spotlight 2011

  • Xu Xin, a non-Jewish professor of Jewish studies at Nanjing University, said some Kaifengers turned to him as a kind of rabbi to ask whether or not they were Jewish.

    Chinese Jews Face Existential Questions Bob Davis 2011

  • She was married under a chuppah wedding canopy by a rabbi, albeit to a non-Jewish man.

    Rabbi Jason Miller: Is Gabby Giffords Jewish Enough? Rabbi Jason Miller 2011

  • When he wrote one of his avowedly "non-Jewish" novels critics found it even more Jewish by dint of its effort not to be so (like Max's devoutly secular father, who advises his son that Jews "have a special responsibility not to be special").

    Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson John Mullan 2010

  • And the office manager and non-Jewish nurse had explained that they could sustain the risks no longer.

    For Services Rendered Erika Dreifus 2010

  • Some rabbis have even questioned whether her non-Jewish mother's name should be part of her Hebrew nomenclature for the prayer, while others have referred to her as Jewish but added the caveat "not halachically speaking."

    Rabbi Jason Miller: Is Gabby Giffords Jewish Enough? Rabbi Jason Miller 2011

  • "Everything had to be analysed in terms of 'Jewish' or 'non-Jewish'".

    Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson John Mullan 2010

  • Some rabbis have even questioned whether her non-Jewish mother's name should be part of her Hebrew nomenclature for the prayer, while others have referred to her as Jewish but added the caveat "not halachically speaking."

    Rabbi Jason Miller: Is Gabby Giffords Jewish Enough? Rabbi Jason Miller 2011

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