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The Passover

slaves rather than honored guests. Four hundred years later, God sent Moses to the current Pharaoh with the demand to allow the H...

The Hasmonean Rule

25-year struggle against the Greeks (Spiro, 2009). When the Greek signed the treaty Mattathiass son Simon took control, calling h...

Adult Development/A Case Study

Art Institute. Each school could have one representative and Ritas art was chosen to represent her school. She won. This brief d...

Counseling the Jewish Family

family is considered to be a central social unit (Wieselberg, 1992). That is, life revolves around the family. Culture and traditi...

Catholic/Jewish Dialogue & Educational Practice

diversity of educational reforms." This is an extremely large topic, as educational literature indicates that reform is needed in ...

Jewish History and the Yiddish Language

the tenth century, an occurrence that was heretofore nonexistent on the timeline of this particular setting. This is not to say, ...

Jews and Persecution Reasons

this premise had become a common notion and it persisted for centuries, something that would create more areas of persecution ("Pe...

1st Century AD Sanhedrin and the Jewish Temple

and the year, the altar where incense burned consisted of thirteen ingredients of land and sea, with everything completely rooted ...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

1915 to 1917 Armenian Genocide

children of the group to another group" (Harris, 2005). In addition, "[G]enocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and publi...

'Tikkun Olam' and Commitment of Jewish Athletes

World War II after the Japanese bombed military installations in Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for active duty in the Marine Corps...

Faith, Good Sportsmanship, and Goodwill Promoted by Jewish Athletes

a high school player, Mother would go over to the box... and drop some coins in the box... I asked what she was doing and she said...

New York City Politics and the Effects of Religious and Ethnic Groups

in New York, regardless of numbers. This is because New York City is "home to the nations largest community of American Jews" ("N...

Sitting on the Wrong Side of the Monsey Trail Bus and Sima Rabinovicz

to shift seats to accommodate them, noting she was a regular commuter on the bus and she had has much right to stay where she was ...

Judaism and Human Rights Advocate Abraham Joshua Heschel

the value of religious discourse allowed an "intelligent passion" (Novak, 1998, pp. 63-67) where fear and trepidation once lurked....

Comparing U.S. and Jewish Law

distinct discrepancies where application is concerned. Ethical behavior - which is defined as exhibiting "the character and...

Cultural Ideals and Plays of Chikamatsu

giri. Osan says, "I could see that you were drifting towards suicide. I felt so unhappy that I wrote a letter, begging her as one ...

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

Death, Religious Faith, and Resurrection

memorial prayer for the dead: "O God full of compassion, who dwell on high, grant perfect peace under the wings of the Shekhinah, ...

Critically Assessing Presentation of Christians and Jews in 'The Merchant of Venice' by William Shakespeare

a time and oft / In the Rialto you have rated me / About my moneys and my usances; / Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, /...

Myth, Fact, and Early Christianity

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

Freud, Cooley, Mead, Friendship, and Brooklyn, New York's Crown Heights Community

people and their farming and small area within a larger place within a town. My neighborhood in Brooklyns community is a five-bloc...

Social Identity and the U.S. Jewish Community

same beliefs and as such it is selective collectivism. Zionism is included within that group of schools of thought, here the idea ...

Contemporary Melting Pot and America

the great melting pot that is the United States. They will no longer be seen as outsiders, but an integral part of the society of ...

'Love Thy Neighbor' and Jewish Morality

the pot-bellied stove; everything else was either burned to the ground or damaged beyond repair from smoke and/or water. It was o...

Assimilation, Identity, and Jewish History

consistent throughout the centuries of the Diaspora. In order to remain Jewish, individuals could not adopt the customs of their h...

The Contribution to American History and Jewish American History by Henry Kissinger

a man of great power and a man who apparently worked within all sorts of cultures, working with China and then with Vietnam, earni...

Jewish Mysticism, the Kaballah, and Perceptions of Women

female, given the fact that womens role in the general sense revolves around the gentler notion of nurture/caring, faith and symbo...

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds' Hero Lieutenant Aldo Raine

lessons in humanity. Nazis aint got no humanity. Theyre the foot soldiers of a Jew hatin, mass murderin maniac, and they need to ...

Jewish History and Customs

Christian Bible. They are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (Rich, 1999). These are considered the Five Books of...