World Of Religion Jennifer Saunders Unit 2

Front 1

Anti Semitism

Back 1

Prejuddice against Jews

Front 2

Apocalyptic

Back 2

NOT IN BOOK

Front 3

Ashkenazim

Back 3

An ethnic groupling of the Jews that migrated first to Italy then spead thoughout central and eastern Europe and thence on to the Americas

Front 4

Bar Mitzvah

Bat Mitzvah

Back 4

The coming of age cermony for a jewish Boy or girl

BAR= boy BAT= girl (back in the day boys and girls would marry at 13 yrs of age)

Front 5

Conservative Judaism

Back 5

Branch that seeks to maintain traditional laws and practices while emplying modern methods of scholarship.

Front 6

Diaspora

Back 6

Collectively, the practitioners of a faith living beyond their traditional homeland. en spelled with a capital D, the dispersal of the Jews after the Babylonian exile.

Front 7

Essenes

Back 7

Monastic Jews who were living communally, apart from the world, about the time of Jesus.

Front 8

Gemara

Back 8

Commentaries on the Jewish Torah

Front 9

Gentiles

Back 9

Any person who is not of jewish faith or origin.

Front 10

Ghettos

Back 10

An urban area occupied by those rejected by a society.

Front 11

Halakha

Back 11

jewish legal decision and the parts of the Talmud dealing with laws.

Front 12

Holocaust

Back 12

The genocidal killing of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War 2

Front 13

Kosher

Back 13

Ritually acceptable, applied to foods in Jewish Orthdoxy

Front 14

Liturgy

Back 14

In Christianity and Judaism, the rites of public worship.

Front 15

Messiah (mashiach)

Back 15

The "annointed," the expected king and delivere of the Jews; a term later applied by Christians to Jesus.

Front 16

Mishnah

Back 16

In Judasim, the systematic summation of the legal teachings of the oral tradition of the Torah.

Front 17

Mitzvah

Back 17

A dvine commandment or sacred deed in fulfillment of a commandemet in Judasim

Front 18

Modern Orthodoxy

Back 18

Branch of Orthodox Judaism, dedicatied to the significance of Israel and Jewish law, which values secular knowledge and integration with non-jews

Front 19

Orthodox Judaism

Back 19

The strictest form of Judaism

Front 20

Pharisees*

Back 20

In Roman-ruled judaea, liberals who tried to practice Torah in their Lives.

Front 21

Pogroms

Back 21

An attack against Jews

Front 22

Rabbis

Back 22

A Jewish teacher

Front 23

reconstructionism

Back 23

Movement holding that Judaism is an evolving relgious civilization

Front 24

Reform or liberal Judaism

Back 24

Movement that began in the nineteenth century as a way of modernizing the religion and making it more accessible and open ended

Front 25

Sabbath

Back 25

The day of the week set aside for rest and worship in Judaism and Christianity

Front 26

Sadducees

Back 26

In roman ruled Judaea, Wealthy and Priestly Jews.

Front 27

Sephardim

Back 27

An ethnic grouping of the Jews that migrated first to Spain and then to North Africa, The Americas, and back to West Asia

Front 28

Synagogues

Back 28

A meeting place for Jews

Front 29

Talmud

Back 29

ajewish law and lore, as finally compiled in the sixth centrury

Front 30

Tanakh

Back 30

The Jewish scriptures

Front 31

Torah

Back 31

The Pentateeuch; also, the whole body of Jewish teaching and Law

Front 32

Zionism

Back 32

the Jewish movement dedicated to establishment of a Jewish state in the biblical land of israel