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• The name Yiddish itself means 'Jewish' and is originally short for yidish daytsh, or 'Jewish German'; an older term in English is Judaeo-German. ...
• Largely because of the influence of Jewish entertainment figures, many Yiddish words have entered the American English lexicon. ...
• Yiddish emerged as the national language of a large Jewish community in Eastern Europe that rejected Zionism and sought to obtain Jewish cultural autonomy in Europe. In mid-century, however, the Holocaust led to a dramatic, sudden decline in the use of Yiddish, as the extensive Jewish communities, both secular and religious, that used Yiddish in their day-to-day life were largely destroyed. ...
• In the United States, the Yiddish language bound together Jews from many countries, whose ethnic identities were as important as their Jewish identity. ... Michel Gelbart, a very prolific composer, probably best known for "I Have A Little Dreydl," wrote music that was very Jewish and very American. In some ways this was a continuation of the conflict between Hebrew (and Zionism) and Yiddish (and Internationalism) as the means of defining emerging Jewish nationalism. ...
• The major exception to this can be found in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in New York, especially in Brooklyn, as well as in some smaller Ultra-Orthodox communities in other cities such as London. ...

• AJCongress Leaders' Trip Bridges Jewish & Dominican Communities American Jewish Congress President Jack Rosen, Deputy Democratic Leader Eric Schneiderman (D-Manhattan/Bronx), and four other leaders of the American Jewish Congress returned from a week-long official visit to the Dominican Republic. ...

• Most religious bioethicists are Jewish or Christian scholars but a smaller number of religious scholars from other religions have recently become involved in this field as well. ...
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• It has a majority Jewish population, bordering on the Mediterranean Sea. ...
• A Jewish state existed intermittently in the region for over a millennium until expulsion by the Roman authorities in the second century CE. ...
• Following centuries of diaspora, the nineteenth century saw the rise of Zionism, a desire to see the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine. ...
• On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed in territory given for the Jewish state in the UN plan. ... Israel's Jewish population continued to grow at a very high rate for some years, fed by waves of Jewish immigration from round the world, most notably recently following the collapse of the USSR. ... How to adjust the Israeli state to accommodate the sense of identity of this grouping without endangering the state's Jewish character, is an important issue in modern-day Israeli-Palestinian relations. ...
• See also: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestine, Palestinian Exodus, Palestinian refugee and Jewish refugees. ...
• Coalitions can be difficult to form and hard to keep together because of the large number of political parties, many of whom run on very specialized platforms, often advocating the tenets of particular Jewish sects. ...
• However, they do not attract sufficient support to avoid governing without the help of smaller parties such as Shas, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish party which also tends to support high social spending; Shinui, a secularist conservative party and foe of Shas, which also works to undermine social spending; the National Union Party, a far-right party advocating transfer of Palestinian refugees to resettle in Arab countries; the Mafdal - the national religious party, affiliated with religious Zionists (kipot srugot); and Meretz, a social-democratic party which is sometimes supportive of the Palestinian cause. All governments have so far avoided forming a coalition with parties representative of the Palestinian minority, such as the Arab-Jewish communist Hadash party, the liberal-nationalist Tajamu' party or the conservative-Islamic bloc United Arab List party. ...
• The influx of Jewish immigrants from the former USSR topped 750,000 during the period 1989-1999, bringing the population of Israel from the former Soviet Union to 1 million, one-sixth of the total population, and adding scientific and professional expertise of substantial value for the economy's future. ...
• As of 2001, 81% of Israel's population is of Jewish nationality. ...
• 6% of Israeli Jews define themselves as haredim (ultra-orthodox religious); an additional 9% are "religious"; 34% consider themselves "traditionalists" (not strictly adhering to Jewish halacha) ; and 51% are "secular". ...
• They are subject to Israeli law and lead lives similar to other Jewish Israelis. ...

• Jewish philosophy.
• Jewish Philosophy is the conjunction between serious study of philosophy and Jewish thought. ...
• Early Jewish philosophy was heavily influenced by the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Islamic philosophy. Many early medieval Jewish philosophers (700s to 1000 CE) were especially influenced by the Islamic Motazilites; they denied all limiting attributes of God and were champions of God's unity and justice. ...
• Over time Aristotle came to be thought of as the philosopher par excellence among Jewish thinkers. ...
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• A schismatic break-off from rabbinic Judaism, Karaism, developed its own form of philosophy, a Jewish version of the Islamic Kalâm. ...
• The Jewish poet—philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol (died about 1070 CE) was influenced by Plato. ...
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• Saadia Gaon (892-942 CE) in his Emunot Ve-Deot ("Principles of Faith and Knowledge") posits the rationality of the Jewish faith, with the restriction that reason must capitulate wherever it contradicts tradition. ... Thus in the question concerning the eternity of the world, reason teaches since Aristotle, that the world is without beginning; that it was not created; in contrast, Jewish dogma asserts a creation out of nothing. ... Mainstream Jewish dogma, in contrast, maintained the immortality of the individual. ...
• The Jewish poet-philosopher Yehuda Halevi (twelfth century) in his polemical work Kuzari made strenuous arguments against philosophy. He became thus the Jewish Al-gazali, whose "Destructio Philosophorum" was the model for the Kuzari. ...

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• 2 Palestinian opposition to Jewish emigration.
• Great Britain had promised the local Arabs, through Lawrence of Arabia, independence for a united Arab country covering most of the Arab Middle East, in exchange for their supporting the British and Great Britain had promised to create and foster a Jewish national home as laid out in the Balfour Declaration. ...
• The population of this area was mainly Arab, although with a significant Jewish minority (approaching 10%), and Bedouin and Druze. ...
• The document defining Britain's obligations as Mandate power copied the text of the Balfour Declaration concerning the establishment of a Jewish homeland, including that Declaration's deliberate ambiguity. Many articles of the document specified actions in support of Jewish immigration and political status. ... In September 1922, the British government presented a memorandum to the League of Nations stating that Transjordan would be excluded from all the provisions dealing with Jewish settlement, and this memorandum was approved. ...
• Palestinian opposition to Jewish emigration.
• During the 1920s, 100,000 Jewish immigrants entered Palestine, and 6,000 non-Jewish immigrants did so as well. Immigration was controlled by the General Federation of Jewish Labour, which selected between applicants on the grounds of their political creed. Land purchased by Jewish agencies was leased on the condition that it be worked only by Jewish labour, and that the lease should not be held by non-Jews. ...
• Initially Jewish emigration to Palestine met little opposition from the local Arabs. However, as anti-Semitism grew in Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jewish emigration (mostly from Europe) to Palestine began to markedly increase, to much Arab resentment. ...
• In some cases, land purchases by the Jewish agencies from absentee landlords led to the eviction of the Palestinian tenants, who were replaced by the Jewish kibbutzim. ...
• The British government put severe limitations on Jewish immigration to Palestine. ... In response to numerous Palestinian Arab attacks on Jewish communities, the Haganah was formed on June 15th, 1920. Beginning in 1936, several Jewish groups such as Etzel (Irgun) and Lehi (Stern Gang) conducted their own campaign of violence against British and Arab targets. ...

• Jewish services.
• This entry is about the series of Jewish prayers said regularly by Jews. These prayers, often with instructions and commentary, are found in the siddur, the traditional Jewish prayer book. ...
• A fourth additional prayer service, called Musaf, is added on Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath) and on major holidays. ...
• Jewish law and custom requires Jews over the age of majority (13 for males, 12 for females) to pray three times a day. ...
• According to traditional Jewish law, the smallest congregation which is permitted to hold public worship is one made up of ten men over the age of majority (13 years). ...
• Traditional codes of Jewish law do not forbid women from counting in a minyan, and a small number of classical rabbinic responsa mention this as a theoretical possibility. However this seems never to have been the practice of the Jewish community; women being allowed to count in the minyan on a regular basis is a new development in Jewish law. ... Reform Judaism does not follow Jewish law as normative, so its leaders do not feel the need to justify their practice within the system of Jewish law. ...
• Prayer is done almost exclusively in Hebrew, but Jewish law allows for prayers to be said in any language that the person praying understands. ...
• Conservative (also called Masorti) and Orthodox synagogues ask that all male attendees cover their heads, whether they are Jewish or gentile. ...
• As you might expect, there are some things that a gentile visitor should do during a Jewish religious service, and there are some things not to do. ...
• To follow the bowing and rising would indicate that you are actually a Jew following the halakha (Jewish law) of prayer. Since you aren't Jewish, this is not necessary. ...
• Note that the wearing of a kipa in most Reform temples is considered optional; it is mandatory for Jewish men in both Orthodox and Conservative synagogues. ...
• See also: Siddur, Prayer, List of Jewish Prayers and Blessings .

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• The Talmud (התלמוד) is considered an authoritative record of rabbinic discussions on Jewish law, ethics, customs, legends and stories. ... It expands on the earlier writings in the Torah in general and in the Mishnah in particular, and is the basis for all later codes of Jewish law. ...
• Over the next three centuries the Mishna underwent analysis and debate in Israel and Babylon (the world's major Jewish communities). ...
• It is the major influence on Jewish belief and thought. Furthermore, although not a formal legal code, it is the basis for all later codes of Jewish law, and thus continues to exert a major influence on Halakha and Jewish religious practice. ...
• It was redacted as a formal collection by Ashi and Ravina, two leaders of the Babylonian Jewish community, around the year 550 CE. ...
• ) Over time, the Bavli has been studied more intensively, and thus has a plethora of commentary; further, because it is later, Jewish practice will generally be determined based on the Babylonian Talmud. ...
• The Talmud and its study spread from Babylon to Egypt, northern Africa, Italy, Spain, France, and Germany, regions destined to become abodes of the Jewish spirit; and in all these countries Jewish intellectual interest centered in the Talmud. ...
• The movement thus initiated and the influence of Arabic culture were the two chief factors which aroused the dormant forces of Judaism and gave inspiration to the scientific pursuits to which the Jewish spirit owed many centuries of fruitful activity. ...
• Within Judaism, the prime competitor to the primacy of Talmud study was the development of Kabbalah (Jewish esoteric mysticism), which in its modern form arose in the thirteenth century. ... Even the Bible was relegated to a secondary place, and the Jewish schools devoted themselves almost exclusively to the Talmud; so that "study" became synonymous with "study of the Talmud. ...
• Modern culture has gradually alienated most Jews from from Talmud study; Talmud is now regarded by the majority of Jews as merely one of the branches of Jewish theology. ...
• On the whole Jewish learning has done full justice to the Talmud, many scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth century having made noteworthy contributions to its history and textual criticism, and having constituted it the basis of historical and archeological researches. The study of the Talmud has even attracted the attention of non-Jewish scholars; and it has been included in the curricula of universities. ...
• Orthodox Jews study the Talmud in depth, but rarely use Talmudic legal methodology to alter Jewish law as codified in later compendia. ...
• Reform and Reconstructionist Jews usually do not teach much Talmud in their Hebrew schools, but they do teach it in their rabbinical seminaries; The world view of liberal Judaism rejects the idea of binding Jewish law, and uses the Talmud as a source of inspiration and moral instruction. ...

• The State of Israel is a Jewish state in Southwest Asia, and the Middle East occupying a narrow strip of land on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. ...
• A Jewish state existed intermittently in the region for over a millennium until expulsion by the Roman authorities in the second century CE. ...
• Following centuries of diaspora, the nineteenth century saw the rise of Zionism, a desire to see the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine, although this remained a minority movement until the rise of Nazism in 1933 and the subsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the Shoah, or Holocaust. ...
• The 1947 UN Partition Plan split the mandate into two states, Jewish and Arab, giving about half the land area to each state. ...
• On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed in territory given for the Jewish state in the UN plan. ... Israel's Jewish population continued to grow at a very high rate for some years, fed by waves of Jewish immigration from round the world, most notably recently following the collapse of the USSR. ... How to adjust the Israeli state to accommodate the sense of identity of this grouping without endangering the state's Jewish character is an important issue in modern-day Israeli-Palestinian relations. ...
• See also: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestine, Palestinian Exodus, Palestinian refugee and Jewish refugees. ...
• Coalitions can be difficult to form and hard to keep together because of the large number of political parties, many of whom run on very specialized platforms, often advocating the tenets of particular Jewish sects. ...
• However, they do not attract sufficient support to avoid governing without the help of smaller parties such as Shas, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish party which also tends to support high social spending; Shinui, a secularist conservative party and foe of Shas, which also works to undermine social spending; the National Union Party, a far-right party advocating "transfer" of Palestinian refugees to resettle in Arab countries; the Mafdal - the national religious party, affiliated with religious Zionists (kipot srugot); and Meretz, a social-democratic party which is sometimes supportive of the Palestinian cause. All governments have so far avoided forming a coalition with parties representative of the Palestinian minority, such as the Arab-Jewish communist Hadash party, the liberal-nationalist Tajamu' party or the conservative-Islamic bloc United Arab List party. ...
• The influx of Jewish immigrants from the former USSR topped 750,000 during the period 1989-1999, bringing the population of Israel from the former Soviet Union to 1 million, one-sixth of the total population, and adding scientific and professional expertise of substantial value for the economy's future. ...
• As of 2001, 81% of Israel's population is of Jewish origin. ...
• 6% of Israeli Jews define themselves as haredim (ultra-orthodox religious); an additional 9% are "religious"; 34% consider themselves "traditionalists" (not strictly adhering to Jewish halacha) ; and 51% are "secular". ...
• They are subject to Israeli law and lead lives similar to other Jewish Israelis. ...

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• During biblical times when calamities befell the Jewish people, the Jewish prophets stressed that suffering is a natural result of not following God's law, and prosperity, peace and health are the natural results of following God's law. Therefore, some people in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community have taught that the Jewish people in Europe were deeply sinful. ...
• Perhaps the Holocaust is in some way a revelation from God: The event issues a call for Jewish affirmation for survival. ...
• The Jewish people become in fact the "suffering servant" of Isaiah. The Jewish people collectively suffer for the sins of the world. ...
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• They have lured the majority of the Jewish people into awful heresy, the like of which as not been seen since the world was created. ... Aviezer Ravitzky, Messianism, Zionism and Jewish Religious Radicalism (1996 by The University of Chicago), p. ...
• There were redemptionist Zionists, at the other end of the spectrum, who also saw the Holocaust as a collective punishment for a collective sin: ongoing Jewish unfaithfulness to the Land of Israel. ... Rabbi Zvi Yehudah Kook and his disciples, for their part, avoided this harsh position, but they too theologically related the Holocaust to the Jewish recognition of Zion. Kook writes "When the end comes and Israel fails to recognize it, there comes a cruel divine operation that removes the Jewish people from its exile. ...

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• This article is about hostile actions, or actions termed terrorist against Palestinians and British soldiers, by Jewish groups within the British Mandate of Palestine, and later, by Israelis. ...
• These attacks were not all directly connected with the "mainstream" pre-Statehood Jewish leadership, who condemned these attacks publicly, and often extradicted their members. Strong ties remained, though, between the formal Jewish leadership and its underground counterparts. ...
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• In the 1930s and 1940s, two Jewish underground organizations, the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern gang, were responsible for a number of terrorist acts: .
• In 1947, killed two British hostages, sergeants who had been taken prisoner and later killed in response to British refusal to cancel the death sentence of two Jewish activists in Akko prison. ...

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• The Israeli Jewish-Arab Village of Neve Shalom-Wahat al Salam provides a remarkable model of coexistence. ...
• Hamidrasha Jewish-Arab Beit Midrash .
• Jewish, Muslim and Christian men and women will engage in a true inter-cultural learning experience, with the goal of making a significant contribution to the ongoing dialogue between Jews and Arabs, and strengthening their reciprocal ties. ...
• The Israeli political movement Peace Now in 1994 has created an initiative called Ir Shalem, the goal of which is to build a peaceful equitable and inspiring future for this city, with Jewish and Arab citizens working together to find solutions based on equity and justice. ...
• Givat Haviva's Jewish-Arab Center for Peace .
• Givat Haviva sponsors the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace. "Established in 1963, the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace is one of the oldest and most prominent institutions in its field. ...
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• This campaign will encourage the North American Jewish community to examine the risks and rewards of peace for Israel and the Palestinians, and to undertake critical, constructive public dialogue on the most pressing social issues facing Israel today — including the status of Arab citizens of Israel and other minorities, as well as other issues of inequality and discrimination. ...
• According to their website, The Abraham Fund Initiatives is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting coexistence between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel. ...

• Jewish Messiah.
• The concept of the messiah in Judaism is briefly discussed in the Jewish eschatology entry. ... This entry discusses the Jewish view of the messiah in more detail. ...
• The predominant Jewish understanding of moschiach ("the messiah") is based on the writings of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides, or the Rambam. His views on the messiah are discussed in his Mishneh Torah, his 14 volume compendium of Jewish law, in the section Hilkhot Melakhim Umilchamoteihem, chapter 11. ...
• Syme wrote "What Happens After I Die? Jewish Views of Life After Death" (UAHC Press), which offers a wide spectrum of Jewish responses to the question of life after death, from traditional to Reform. ...
• The State of Israel, established and maintained by the Jewish will to live, demonstrates what a united people can accomplish in history. The existence of the Jew is an argument against despair; Jewish survival is warrant for human hope. ...
• The first Christians were Jews, and likely subscribed to Jewish beliefs and practices common at the time. Among these was a belief that a messiah—a descendant of King David—would restore the monarchy and Jewish independence. ...
• According to mainstream Jewish beliefs, the failure of Jesus to restore the Kingdom, and his crucifixion by Romans, negated claims that he was the messiah (since most Jews do not accept that Jesus was the messiah, they reject the use of the full (Christian) name. See the Jewish eschatology for further discussion). ...
• Judaism teaches that it is heretical for any man to claim to be a part of God; Jews view Jesus as just one in a long list of Jewish claimants to be the messiah. ...
• See also: List of messiahs, Jewish eschatology, messiah .
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• Senate budget cuts in global aid affect women the most, the American Jewish World Service said. ...
• Peggy Tishman, a former president of the New York Jewish federation, died last Friday at 84. ...
• Jewish members of Canada’s Conservative Party are protesting the scheduling of elections for a new party leader on a Shabbat. ...
• Nicolae Cajal, chairman of Romania’s Jewish community, died Sunday in Bucharest at the age of 84. ...
• A 70-year-old German Jewish newspaper begun in New York by emigrants from Nazi Germany may close. ...

• The belief that traditional rabbinic modes of study, and modern scholarship and critical text study, are both valid ways to learn about and from Jewish religious texts. ...
• A commitment to following traditional Jewish laws and customs .
• A deliberately non-fundamentalist teaching and acceptance of Jewish principles of faith. ...
• Jewish FAQ notes that "Conservative Judaism believes that scholarly study of Jewish texts indicates that Judaism has constantly been evolving to meet the needs of the Jewish people in varying circumstances, and that a central halakhic authority can continue the halakhic evolution today. ...
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• Conservative Judaism is a unified movement; the international body of Conservative rabbis is the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the organization of synagogues is the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), and the primary seminary and cantorial school is the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) in New York City. ...
• Frankel became the head of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau, Germany. The seminary taught that Jewish law was not static, but rather has always developed in response to changing conditions. He called his approach towards Judaism "Positive-Historical," which meant that one should have a positive attitude towards accepting Jewish law and tradition as normative, yet one should be open to developing the law in the same fashion that it has always historically developed. ...
• In 1902, Solomon Schechter reorganized the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and made it into the flagship institution of Conservative Judaism. ...
• Conservative Judaism holds that halakha (Jewish law) is normative, i. ... that it is something that Jewish people must strive to actually live by in their daily lives. This would include the laws of Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath); the laws of kashrut (keeping kosher); the practice of thrice daily prayer; observance of the Jewish holidays and life-cycle events. ... There is a substantial committed core, consisting of the lay leadership, rabbis, cantors, educators, and those who have graduated from the movement's religious day schools and summer camps, that do take Jewish law very seriously. ...

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• Passover, also known as Pesach or Pesah, is an eight day Jewish holiday (seven days in Israel) that commemorates the exodus and freedom of the Israelites from Egypt. ...
• It is traditional for a Jewish family to gather on both these nights for a special dinner called a seder where the story of the Israelite exodus from Egypt is retold by the reading of the story of the Exodus from Egypt, the Haggadah. ...
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