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What do Jewish people call God?

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Okay, so this may seem like a dumb question but here's the deal: in the next page of my comic, Henry (the resident jew) begins a pleasant chat with another character about religion and explains a thing he does about eating kosher that doesn't make much sense to anyone except me.
So anyway at one point he says 'well ha ha i'm sure *god* won't punish me for eating unclean foods' and that's where I have a problem. I'd originally written Hashem because I thought it was appropriate but now I'm not sure. Is it Yahweh? Is it Jehovah (worse? how could it be worse? jehovah! jehovah!)? Is it Adonaï? Is it just God? WHAT DO I CALL THIS ENTITY.

Just as a reminder: he's Conservative bordering on Reform (respects Shabbat and goes to the synagogue, makes an effort to eat kosher ever other week, speaks Yiddish (yeah he's Askhenazi) and respects the main holidays but other than that) so he's pretty laid-back. Don't know if this is relevant.
 
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It depends. I know some Jews don't use a name at all but I think most English-speaking Jews would just say "God."
 
As far as I'm aware, they'll say "God" and write is as "G-d" as a sign of respect.

...Leonard Cohen does, at least X3
 
Jews don't say God's name. If it has to be written, use G-D or G!d or whatever.

EXCEPT MY GIRLFRIEND BUT SHE DOESN'T REALLY BELIEVE IN GOD ANYWAY SO SHE DOESN'T COUNT

Jews are Jews by birth so it depends on if they are practising or not too I guess
 
Dannichu said:
As far as I'm aware, they'll say "God" and write is as "G-d" as a sign of respect.

...Leonard Cohen does, at least X3
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Yeah, it was written G-d in my R.E. exam.

...for years I thought 'G-d' was actually the name of the god. >_> Always wondered why they used a name that looks like some kind of robotic serial number...
 
Thanks for the input, everyone. I'll just have him say 'god', because I'm pretty certain all the other versions are in Hebrew and Yiddish. And yeah, the G-d thing is done because one cannot deface god, including his name, which is why burning or scribbling over the Torah isn't kosher. Some Jewish people do it on the Internet as well because you could technically print the page and burn it afterwards (seriously).

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Is this a real film?
 
I'm fairly sure it's pretty much a pick-and-choose situation and no one God name is the "right" one.

At least, after finding this during research on my antisemitism project for History, I should really hope so o.o
 
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