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Essays 151 - 180

I Will Bear Witness, the Diary of Victor Klemperer

numbers of people who had always defined themselves as proud citizens of the country? It is important to understand that Klemperer...

THE KOL NIDRE - AN EXPLANATION

they confess their sins only once a year, on what is called Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement. Jews are mandated to observe this...

John's Messianic Ideas

John was familiar with Jewish ideas regarding the Messiah. He incorporated those ideas into his Gospel. He gently brings about the...

JEWISH VS CHRISTIAN SERVICE

Compares and contrasts the Jewish and Christian order of Sabbath services. There are 2 sources listed in the bibliography of this ...

The Three Major Religions and Healthcare

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the basics of the major religions and why nurses should study them. This paper includes Jew...

Nazi 'Final Solution'

from the annals of Nazism, very little written evidence of its existence - or why it was even initiated - is available. Scholars c...

Divorce and Judaism

of sorts so that a divorce could not be granted simply and carelessly. "If there was a certificate, there should also be grounds f...

Colonialism and Arab Populations in Palestine

This 6 page paper gives an overview of how colonialism contributed to diminished Arab populations. This paper includes a discussio...

Jewish Uprising in Warsaw, Poland in 1943

when David was witness to Goliaths rantings, David offered to fight the Giant in order to allow victory over the Philistines (The ...

A Comparative Analysis of the Film Hester Street and the Texts Mary Antin's The Promised Land and Anzia Yezierska's Breadgivers

Promised Land," which was a national best seller in 1912, looks at key issues in the immigrant experience. As the student reads t...

Daniel Libeskind's Architectural Works The Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects of Daniel Libeskind's Work

The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...

Immigration of Jews from 1900 Until the Second World War

and the largest immigration wave still lay ahead." This new immigration was to take place from 1900 to 1924 wherein "another 1.75 ...

Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky

was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...

Fundamental Extremists in Judaism

the Hebron area; threats to shoot soldiers" (Brownfeld, 1999). In further understanding some of the foundations of their argum...

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

to the bed and lay on it with my eyes closed. Now there was ice and darkness inside me. I could feel the cold darkness moving sl...

Neusner's Introduction to Judaism

job it is to perform certain sacred rituals, whereas in Judaism, the rabbi has no authority to perform rituals. Instead, Rabbis ar...

Diaspora, Jewish Identity, and Israel's Role

has been the focus of world attention for generations. From a Palestinian perspective, however, this goal is simply unobtainable....

Chapter 13 of Exodus and an Exegesis of Lines 1 through 22

sanctified, that is set apart for Gods service (Griffiths, 1993). They are delivered for Gods use, by blood to the Lord. This ver...

Eban and Wetmore's Promised Land

If one considers Ebans work from the perspective of cultural analysis, it immediately becomes apparent that Jewish culture, unlike...

Analysis of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

being which is so radically different from his original form that he is subsequently rejected by all who know him. He is no longe...

Religious Connotations of 'Just War'

with holy wars that are most familiar to Westerners are in the Old Testament. Exodus 32:27 tells of how God ordered the destructio...

Diet and Sacrifice in The Book of Leviticus

* The 8 Jewish Feasts, discussed in Chapters 23 through 25 (Division of Student Ministry, nd). * The Priests in chapters 8 through...

Freedom and Culture

so evident in official circles before. Individuals adopted rules and standards of behavior designed to serve "appearances." Youn...

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...

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, ...

Reasons for the Holocaust and Jewish Indifference to It

people taking days to die of their wounds, but no one in the village believes him; their reaction is: "Hes just trying to make us ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Jewish History

academy at the port city of Jabneel. When the Sanhedrin (the Jewish high court) escaped from Jerusalem, it settled in Jabneel an...