The word "jewry" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to the Jewish people collectively, especially as regards their religious practice and culture. For example, you can use it in a sentence such as: "The jewry of the city has gathered in celebration of Chanukah."
Attempts by Jews to lump their co-religionists together as "international Jewry" are misleading; ironically, they mirror Hitler's failed attempts at racial categorization of Jews.Auschwitz was not a Jewish tragedy, it was a tragedy for all of Europe.
"For Jewry to be envied: that is a change indeed," concluded The Economist's dispatch from Jerusalem that week (see article).The fact that the West Bank was home to the major biblical sites the old city of Jerusalem, the tomb of the patriarchs in Hebron, Rachel's tomb in Bethlehem added to the sensation of a divine guiding hand.
If their grandparents' Judaism was about religion, learning and community, theirs meant something else: being a nation that had lost a third of its people but gained a homeland.Right from its foundation, the existence of Israel created new questions for world Jewry.
So they have come up with a set of proposals that they describe as a compromise between doing nothing (or tinkering with cosmetic change) and the binational state that many Palestinians, inside and outside Israel, advocate.A binational state, they believe, is a non-starter, given Israel's raison d'être as the homeland for world Jewry.
Ludendorff succumbed completely to this eccentric woman, who regarded him as the real "commander in chief" of the Germans and had developed a belief in the activities of "supernational powers"—Jewry, Christianity, Freemasonry.
Until his death late in 1410 or in January of 1411, Crescas remained the spiritual head of Spanish Jewry.
His acknowledged sources are nearly all brief, gaonic, writings, which display the first grapplings of medieval Jewry with theological issues.
As I have argued previously, Saudi Arabia and Israel have less in common than do Iran and Israel, which share much in the way of culture and history, and are linked through Iranian-Israeli Jewry.
Nowadays most estimates put the size of Hungarian Jewry at around 80,000 to 100,000, making it the third-largest community on mainland Europe, though only around a tenth of its pre-war numbers.
But some have raised the spectre of a new persecution of European Jewry.
But neither of the two leading government papers reported the insistence by one of the rabbis that the genocide suffered by European Jewry had been "confirmed by innumerable eyewitnesses and fully documented again and again".In fact, many Iranians are pretty well oblivious to the Holocaust; they are not taught about the event or even the second world war in school.
