Jerusalem: 3‚000 Years Young Most people think that Jerusalem is a city‚ but that’s not completely true. In many ways Jerusalem is a city like any other big city; it has a mayor and a city hall‚ it has shopping centers and office buildings‚ and it has schools‚ playgrounds‚ parks‚ museums and a zoo. To the Jewish people however‚ Jerusalem is much‚ much more than just a city. It’s even more than the capital of Israel. In many ways‚ Jerusalem is the very heart and soul of Judaism‚ Jewish history‚
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Kristallnacht‚ otherwise known as “Night of Broken Glass.” When 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan‚ a German Jewish youth visiting an uncle in Paris‚ shot a German diplomat living in Paris‚ wishing to avenge his father’s deportation from Germany to Poland‚ the Nazis retaliated with a violent attack on the Jewish community. On November 9‚ Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes‚ businesses‚ and synagogues across Germany‚ murdering about 100 Jews in the process. After Kristallnacht‚ many Jews saw that violence against
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place where the most vulnerable Judicial Court of ancient Greece met.” (Stott‚ J. R. (1994) “Paul seldom passed up an invitation to speak‚ when it gave him the opportunity to preach the gospel to lost men and women. The opportunity to speak in the synagogue was apparently a matter of custom‚ but the invitation to preach to pagan philosophers was rarer.” (Stott‚ J. R. (1994) “The motive of these Athenians for giving Paul a hearing‚ an opportunity to expound his views‚ were not very noble. But Paul was
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David J. Marti Dr. Carl Religion 230 15 July 2010 Jewish Dietary Laws and the Rise of the Delicatessen in America In the Jewish culture‚ observing dietary laws has always meant living within boundaries. A great deal of self-discipline is required‚ and each person or household has to decide how stringently to apply the rules--or which set of rules to follow. This often means adapting to the standards of the community in which you or your guests live. One constant has always been the local delicatessen
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(M1) COMPARE THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN THE PRACTICES AND BELIEFS OF INDIVIDUALS FROM TWO CONTRASTING RELIGIOUS OR SECULAR GROUPS Indeed‚ Christians and Jews share lots of common heritage – after all Jesus was himself Jewish. This leads to many things in common between Judaism and Christianity which include: Religion 1 Religion 2 Similarities Differences Definition/history Christianity is a religion based upon the teachings and miracles of Jesus. Judaism is the name of the religious faith
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violence continued on for more and more days to pass. Although the events of the Night of Broken Glass only took place on the 9th of November 1938 and the number of assaults against the Jews had increased throughout the autumn season in 1938. Synagogues had been ruined‚ windows had been broken‚ and Jews had been driven from local areas‚ particularly in Franken‚ where the extreme anti-Semite‚ Julius Streicher was Gauleiter for the Nazi Party. On November 7‚ in Paris‚ a 17-year-old German
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that Kristallnacht got it’s name from the broken glass of Jewish-owned businesses‚ synagogues‚ and homes. “Kristallnacht
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found in every corner of the Roman Empire. The archaeological remnants and literary attestations of more than 150 synagogues throughout the empire make clear that Jews were integral to the urban landscape of late antiquity‚ well beyond the borders of Roman Palestine. Asia Minor‚ in particular‚ was one of the most prosperous‚ Jewish communities (Stokstad‚ 164) The third-century synagogue in the Roman garrison town of Dura-Europos‚ Syria‚ like the Christian meeting house and the shrine devoted to the
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equality for women and called for change. Their call for change demanded that women be have the full range of rights and responsibilities as their male counterparts‚ in terms of following the mitzvot and assuming positions of leadership within the synagogue. In conservative Jewish society‚ it is common practice for the man being able to divorce the woman for any reason‚ but the woman is unable to divorce the man for any reason. Jewish feminists have been campaigning for equality in marriage for
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I found interesting that still today in 2016‚ that people are so invested in other people’s lives that they would go and vandalize a synagogue with the word “Jesus” written just because they don’t believe Jesus is the messiah. People are so caught up in other people’s business it bothers me. Why can’t people just go along with their daily lives and not worry about other people. I also found interesting that people from other religions offered to help clean up the vandalism. I think that shows
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