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Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
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Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
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Chabad: Jews affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement
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Camp: Jews who attend or work at a Jewish overnight summer camp
Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there
Organizations: People involved in a professional or volunteer capacity with Jewish nonprofit organizations
Ethnic: Jews whose Jewish identity is primarily ethnic
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Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
Younger: Jews in their 30s or younger
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Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
Sephardim: Jews with Sephardi or Mizrahi heritage
Syrian: Jews with recent ancestry in Syria
Persian: Jews with recent ancestry in Iran
Bukharian: Jews with ancestry in Central Asia, such as Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
Juhuro: Jews with ancestry in the Caucasus region, such as Azerbaijan and Dagestan, also known as Kavkazi, Gorsky, or Mountain Jews
Russian: Jews whose ancestors were Russian-speaking Jews and migrated to English-speaking countries from the Soviet Union or Russia from the 1980s to the present
North African: Jews with ancestry in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, or Egypt
Yemenite: Jews with ancestry in Yemen
Ottoman Sephardim: Jews with ancestry in Spain and, post-expulsion, in Turkey, Greece, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire
Kurdistan: Jews with ancestry in the Kurdish region of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
Iraqi: Jews with ancestry in Iraq
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The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Bible
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brisket
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BuJew
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Chabad house
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chopped liver
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cockamamy
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Conservative
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Conservative Judaism
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Deuteronomy
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Diaspora
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Hebrew
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HIAS
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Jew by Choice
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Jewish
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Jewish Federation
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Jewish National Fund
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Jewish star
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Judaica
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Judaism
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kosher style
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macaroon
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matzoh ball
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Messianic Jew
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National Council of Jewish Women
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Noahide Laws
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Orthodox
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Palestine
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Promised Land
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refusenik
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Semite
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shluffy
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Star of David
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synagogue
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Tetragrammaton
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The Chosen People
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the Joint
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transliteration
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tzedakah box
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ultra-Orthodox
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United Jewish Communities
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unveiling
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Zionist Organization of America
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