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Jubin Nautiyal (जुबिन नौटियाल)
Jubin Nautiyal (जुबिन नौटियाल), Indian playback singer from Dehradun, Uttarakhand, born 1989; known for Raataan Lambiyan, Tum Hi Aana, Lut Gaye, Humnava Mere, and IIFA Best Male Playback Singer wins.
Juche
Juche, also known as the Juche Idea, is the official ruling ideology of North Korea, first articulated by Kim Il Sung in the mid-1950s and emphasizing self-reliance.
Jucy Lucy
Jucy Lucy (Juicy Lucy): Minneapolis cheese-stuffed burger, cheese sealed inside two griddled beef patties. Invented in 1950s south Minneapolis; Matt's Bar ("Jucy") and 5-8 Club ("Juicy") both claim it; Minnesota's signature dish.
Juda Hirsch Quastel
Juda Hirsch Quastel (1899–1987) was a British-born Canadian biochemist who did foundational work in soil biochemistry and neurochemistry, and first demonstrated competitive enzyme inhibition in 1925.
Judaai (जुदाई) (1997 film)
Judaai (जुदाई) is a 1997 Hindi romantic comedy drama directed by Raj Kanwar, starring Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, and Urmila Matondkar; a remake of Telugu Subhalagnam about a wife who sells her husband for 2 crores, grossing ₹28.77 crores.
Judaea (Roman province)
Judaea (Provincia Iudaea), Roman province formed 6 CE from Archelaus's ethnarchy, governed by prefects then procurators from Caesarea, shaken by the 66–70 and 132–135 revolts, renamed Syria Palaestina by Hadrian.
Judaeo-Spanish
Judaeo-Spanish, also called Ladino, Judezmo, or Espanyoliko, is the endangered Ibero-Romance language of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, based on late medieval Castilian with Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, and Arabic elements, historically written in Hebrew letters and now spoken by over 100,000 people.
Judah (יְהוּדָה) (son of Jacob)
Judah (יְהוּדָה, Yehudah), fourth son of Jacob and Leah in Genesis, suggested selling Joseph, pleaded for Benjamin, and fathered Pharez, ancestor of David; also the tribe and kingdom's name.
Judah & the Lion
Judah & the Lion, a Nashville band formed in 2011 at Belmont University by Judah Akers, Brian Macdonald, and Nate Zuercher, blends banjo-and-mandolin folk with hip-hop and pop; known for "Take It All Back" and I Am a Prism (2026).
Judah b. David
Judah b. David was a 10th-century Exilarch (Resh Galuta) of Babylonian Jewry, son and immediate successor of David b. Zakkai, dying seven months after his father around 940.
Judah ben Tabbai
Judah ben Tabbai (יהודה בן טבאי) was a first-century BCE Jewish sage, one of the zugot pairs, known for a maxim on judicial conduct in Pirkei Avot.
Judah Ben-Hur
Judah Ben-Hur is the fictional Jewish prince protagonist of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, betrayed by Messala, enslaved, adopted by Arrius, and famously portrayed by Charlton Heston in the 1959 film.
Judah Folkman
Judah Folkman was an American surgeon and physician-scientist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard who founded anti-angiogenesis, the idea that tumors depend on growing new blood vessels.
Judah Friedlander
Judah Friedlander, American stand-up comedian and actor from Gaithersburg, Maryland; "The World Champion" trucker-hat persona; Frank Rossitano on 30 Rock (2006–2013); American Splendor Spirit Award nominee; author of How to Beat Up Anybody.
Judah Ha-Levi (Mercurian crater)
Judah Ha-Levi is an 80-km-wide impact crater on Mercury in the H-7 Beethoven quadrangle, centered at 10.9N, 107.7W, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for the medieval Jewish poet and philosopher.
Judah ha-Nasi (יהודה הנשיא)
Judah ha-Nasi (יהודה הנשיא) was a second- and third-century rabbinic leader in Roman Palestine who served as nasi, or patriarch, and is traditionally credited with redacting the Mishnah around 200 CE.
Judah Halevi (יהודה הלוי)
Judah Halevi, also known as Yehuda Halevi, was a leading Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher of Muslim Spain who wrote the Kuzari and died in 1141.
Judah II (Nesiah)
Judah II, known in rabbinic literature as Judah Nesi'ah, was a Jewish patriarch who presided over the Sanhedrin at Tiberias in the mid-third century CE.
Judah III
Judah III (Yehudah Nesi'ah) was a Nasi, or Patriarch, of the Jewish community in Roman Palestine, conventionally dated c. 290–320, though the succession tradition behind these dates is disputed.
Judah IV
Judah IV was Nasi (Patriarch) of the Sanhedrin in Roman Palestine, son of Gamaliel V and grandson of Hillel II, who held the office from about 385 to 400 CE.
Judah Loew ben Bezalel (יהודה ליווא בן בצלאל)
Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known as the Maharal of Prague, was a leading 16th-century rabbi and Talmudist who served in Prague and Poznań and became the hero of the golem legend.
Judah P. Benjamin
Judah Philip Benjamin (1811–1884), Confederate attorney general, secretary of war, and secretary of state under Jefferson Davis; first openly Jewish U.S. senator from Louisiana, later a Queen's Counsel in England.
Judah Zakkai (Zakkai b. Ahunai, Babawai)
Judah Zakkai, called Zakkai b. Ahunai by Sherira Gaon and Babawai in the Neubauer list, was an exilarch of Babylonian Jewry in the late 8th century.
Judah's revolts against Babylon
Judah's revolts against Babylon were the Kingdom of Judah's rebellions against the Neo-Babylonian Empire between 601 and 586 BC, ending with the fall of Jerusalem, the destruction of Solomon's Temple, and exile to Babylon.
Judaism
Judaism, also known as the Jewish religion or Yahadut (יַהֲדוּת), is the religion of the Jewish people, centered on the Torah and Jewish law, with Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform movements.
Judaizers
Judaizers: early Christians, mainly Jewish-Christian Pharisees, who demanded circumcision and Mosaic Law observance of Gentile converts; central to the Galatians crisis and Council of Jerusalem, later a polemical label in Jerome and 15th-century Russia.
Judar Pasha
Judar Pasha (جودار باشا) was a Moroccan commander of Spanish origin who crossed the Sahara and defeated the Songhai army at the battle of Tondibi in 1591.
Judas (Lady Gaga song)
"Judas" is a 2011 Lady Gaga song, also known as the second single from Born This Way, written and produced with RedOne, released April 15, 2011, with a biblical Mary Magdalene-themed video and UK peak of number 8.
Judas and the Black Messiah
Judas and the Black Messiah is Shaka King's 2021 Warner Bros biographical drama about FBI informant William O'Neal's betrayal of Illinois Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton, starring Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield, winner of two Oscars from six nominations.
Judas goat
Judas goat: a trained or radio-collared goat that leads sheep or feral goats to slaughter or reveals herd locations for pest control; also Judas sheep, steers, and pigs; term dates to a 1900 report and is now debated for anti-Semitic connotations.