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Celebrations and Holidays in Judaism

In nine pages various Jewish holidays and celebrations are examined in terms of meaning and symbolic significance such as Shabbat,...

Jewish Culture and Guilt in The Ghost Writer and Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

life, my only life, and Im living it in the middle of a Jewish joke! I am the son in the Jewish joke -- only it aint no joke!" (35...

Dialogue Between Christians and Jews

In six pages the Old and New Testaments are considered in a discussion of similarities and differences that might emerge from a Je...

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Anti Semitism

In five pages the anti Semitic portrayal of Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare's play is examined in terms of providin...

Early Palestine and Jews

In eight pages this paper discusses the early Palestine in a consideration of a Jewish boy's story before the fifteenth century A....

2 Case Studies on Prevention Through Genetic Screening

In seventy pages this paper discusses World Health Organization and other genetic screening programs with a case study focus upon ...

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the author depicts the 20th century Jewish male coming of sexual age in this amusing and in...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Global Religious Perspectives on the Soul

out the names of his ancestors" (Hauser, 1990). Every eight days, the tribal chief ritually provides a full meal for all the ance...

Jewish Community and the Impact of the Holocaust

the sometimes intense and often expansive sense of being that is clearly portrayed within his works. Night is no exception. As t...

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...

Jewish Custom of Handwashing, Netilat Yadayim

was later extended for handling food. Jesus refers to a controversy going on during his time about whether it was required to wash...

Christianity and Jesus of Nazareth

Christs work on earth, His incarnation, His passion and death and His resurrection. At least two Apostles, John and Paul, perceive...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ultimate Failure of Nazi Science

In five pages the failure of Nazi science is discussed with divisions between 'Jewish' and 'Aryan' science also examined. Four so...

A Review of Europa, Europa

A 5 page essay exploring the work of the film by Polish writer-director Agnieszka Holland. An eye-opening look at the lengths som...