Judaism (Hebrew: Yah) is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people.[1][2] It has its roots as an organized religion in the Middle East during the Bronze Age.[4] Modern Judaism evolved from Yahwism, the religion of ancient Israel and Judah, by the late 6th century BCE,[5] and is thus considered to be one of the oldest monotheistic religions.[6][7] Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenant that God established with the Israelites, their ancestors.[8] It encompasses a wide body of texts, practices, theological positions, and forms of organization.
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Jewish history is the history of the Jews, and their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures. Jews are originated from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah, two related kingdoms that emerged in the Levant during the Iron Age.[1][2] Although the earliest mention of Israel is inscribed on the Merneptah Stele around 12131203 BCE, religious literature tells the story of Israelites going back at least as far as c.
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In the fall of 2006, Sony Pictures chairman and CEO Michael Lynton and his pal Gary Ginsberg, now an executive vice president of Time Warner Inc., began working on a list of the 50 most influential rabbis in the U.S. The friends devised the following unscientific criteria to rank the leaders, whose specialties range from kashrut to Kabbalah: Are they known nationally/internationally?
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The Midrash states that the commandment of Parah Adumah is the ultimate religious mystery, and its reasons are unknowable. The commandment outlines a purification ritual for those who come in contact with a dead body. A red heifer, or Parah Adumah, is sacrificed on the Mount of Olives, and then burnt on a pyre
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(JTA) Last week, Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz responded to the draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v.
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In a new series, named Face to Face in homage to the former New Statesman editor John Freemans celebrated television interviews of the 1960s, todays foremost thinkers, writers and politicians debate the forces reshaping the world. We begin with a written exchange between Ross Douthat, author and columnist at the New York Times, and our own John Gray
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Widely scattered population from a single original territory A diaspora ( dye-AS-pr-) is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale.[2][3] Historically, the word diaspora was used[clarification needed] to refer to the mass dispersion of a population from its indigenous territories, specifically the dispersion of Jews.[4] Whilst the word was originally used to describe the forced displacement of certain peoples, "diasporas" is now generally used to describe those who identify with a "homeland", but live outside of it.[5][6][7] Some notable diasporas are the Assyrian Diaspora which originated during and after the Arab conquest of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, and continued in the aftermath of the Assyrian genocide;[8][9] the southern Chinese and Indians who left their homelands during the 19th to 20th century; the Irish who left Ireland during and after the Great Famine;[10] the Scots who emigrated on a large scale after the Highland and Lowland Clearances;[11] the Romani from India;[12] the Italian diaspora and the Mexican diaspora; the exile and deportation of Circassians; the Palestinian diaspora following the flight or expulsion of Arabs from Palestine;[13] the Armenian Diaspora following the Armenian genocide;[14][15] the Lebanese Diaspora due to the Lebanese Civil War;[16] the fleeing of Greeks from Turkey after the fall of Constantinople,[17] the later Greek genocide,[18] and the Istanbul pogroms,[19] and the emigration of Anglo-Saxon warriors and their families after the Norman Conquest, primarily to the Byzantine Empire.[20] Recently, scholars have distinguished between different kinds of diaspora, based on its causes such as colonialism, trade or labor migrations, or by the kind of social coherence within the diaspora community and its ties to the ancestral lands. Some diaspora communities maintain strong political ties with their homeland. Other qualities that may be typical of many diasporas are thoughts of return, keeping ties back home (country of origin) relationships with other communities in the diaspora, and lack of full integration into the host countries.
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A rabbi is a teacher of Judaism. The word itself literally translates from Hebrew to my teacher or my master. For most of Jewish history, the primary qualification for this title was sufficient learning to render decisions in Jewish law
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CBCs hit show Schitts Creek aired its last episode April 2020, and fans clearly miss it. The show followed parents Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy) and his wife Moira Rose (Catherine O'Hara), who, with their grown children David (Daniel Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy), find themselves forced from their California mansion to Schitts Creek, a small rural town.
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