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Jewishness and religiosity
Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law) Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks) Chabad: Jews affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement
Connections
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
Age
Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older Younger: Jews in their 30s or younger
Ancestry
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
Other

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). None Other

Checked options: The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

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Adon Olam
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afikomen
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aggadah
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Akedah
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al hanisim
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Al Het
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al regel achat
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al tiftach peh lasatan
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aleichem shalom
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Aleinu
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aleph-bet
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aliyah
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alya ve-kots ba
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am ha'aretz
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amen
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Amidah
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Anim Zmirot
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