Diversity Of Jewish Culture

For over 2,000 years, Jewish people have established amongst many places with different cultures, such as Iran, Israel, western Mediterranean, North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Their roots come from the Middle East, especially Israel. The population of Israel has a mixture of native-born Jews, Arabs, and Jewish immigrants. Arabs is the largest group which in 2007 were 1,400,000 people, which accounted for approximately 20% of the population in this country (Ben-Arye, Lev, Keshet, & Schiff , 2011). Even though there is a diversity of culturally and physically characteristics displayed by the distinctive Jewish populations in the all over the world, studies have concluded that most of these are genetically related to one another, and ultimately have origin from a common ancient Israelite population (Purnell, 2009).
Demographic Data
Jews started to migrate from Europe in the mid-1800s. In America, most of the Jewish are descendants of immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe, which are called Ashkenazi Jews. Sephardic Jews are a more diverse group that comes from South and Central America, the Mediterranean, Spain, Portugal and North Africa. Jewish …show more content…
The conservatives are traditional, follows more Jewish laws. They attend to the synagogue on Friday evening and abstained to work on Saturdays. Men wear a head cover that is called kippah at all times, is considered a reverence to God. Women wear dresses with long sleeves. The Reform Jews are tied only to the moral laws of the Torah. They practice fewer rituals, celebrate holidays and preserve an ethnic identity. The last group, the hasidic (orthodox) the most identifiable of all because of their black hats, full beards, dark clothes and uncut hair around the ears (Purnell,