Judaism is the religion of the Jews and is the belief that there is one God who controls everything. The origins of Judaism date all the way back four thousand years. It is said to have started in the eastern part of Canaan. In today’s time, that land is now the land of Israel and Palestine. Before being called Jews, followers were often called the Israelites. It was all started when God decided to make a covenant with a man named Abraham. God promised Abraham to make his children a sacred type of people and to give them a land of their own as long as they followed God’s commands. The key prophets who stood out in the Israelite culture were Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, and especially Moses, who was given the Ten Commandments, God’s laws that the
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The Jewish people call their Bible the TaNaK, which is an acronym for their beliefs in the Torah, their belief in the prophets, and the writings of what they learned. Other texts that the Jewish people used were the Midrash and the Talmud, which were both interpretations of the Torah made during that time.
The different branches of Judaism use different texts as their Bible. The four different branches that are here today are the Orthodox, the Conservative, the Reform, and the Reconstructionist branches, each one ranging from the most traditional to the most liberal in their followings of the Torah. Although having differences between their views of the Torah, the branches remain connected together due to the common basis of belief in a set of written scripture that talks about their people having a relationship with the one and only God. Jewish people follow the saying that actions speak louder than words.
Jewish people worship God in places called synagogues, which were to replace the holy Temple due to the Temple being destroyed in 70 A.D. The leaders of the synagogues are people called rabbis, which means teacher. The rabbis are in charge of celebrating many of the rituals that are important to the Jewish …show more content…
The reasoning for this was that, at the time, people were talking about people and places as a race, like the Italian race or the Indian race, so the United States Supreme Court decided to judge the Jews as a race instead of a religion.
Unfortunately, many of the Jews found this to be offensive to their culture that there would be any hint of them being a race. The Jews countered this decision by saying that considering them a race would remind them of the times of the Holocaust in Germany, where the Nazis considered the Jews an inferior race that should be locked up in ghettos and eliminated for being Jews.
Logically speaking, there was no way the Jewish people could be considered a race. A race has certain genetics that make them similar to each other with similar ancestries. Your race is hardwired into you. It makes up who you are the second you are born and you have no ability to change it. Of course, having a similar ancestry is not required to become a Jew. Sure, many of the Jewish population share a common ancestry, but that is not always the case, like in people who convert to
The Jewish people call their Bible the TaNaK, which is an acronym for their beliefs in the Torah, their belief in the prophets, and the writings of what they learned. Other texts that the Jewish people used were the Midrash and the Talmud, which were both interpretations of the Torah made during that time.
The different branches of Judaism use different texts as their Bible. The four different branches that are here today are the Orthodox, the Conservative, the Reform, and the Reconstructionist branches, each one ranging from the most traditional to the most liberal in their followings of the Torah. Although having differences between their views of the Torah, the branches remain connected together due to the common basis of belief in a set of written scripture that talks about their people having a relationship with the one and only God. Jewish people follow the saying that actions speak louder than words.
Jewish people worship God in places called synagogues, which were to replace the holy Temple due to the Temple being destroyed in 70 A.D. The leaders of the synagogues are people called rabbis, which means teacher. The rabbis are in charge of celebrating many of the rituals that are important to the Jewish …show more content…
The reasoning for this was that, at the time, people were talking about people and places as a race, like the Italian race or the Indian race, so the United States Supreme Court decided to judge the Jews as a race instead of a religion.
Unfortunately, many of the Jews found this to be offensive to their culture that there would be any hint of them being a race. The Jews countered this decision by saying that considering them a race would remind them of the times of the Holocaust in Germany, where the Nazis considered the Jews an inferior race that should be locked up in ghettos and eliminated for being Jews.
Logically speaking, there was no way the Jewish people could be considered a race. A race has certain genetics that make them similar to each other with similar ancestries. Your race is hardwired into you. It makes up who you are the second you are born and you have no ability to change it. Of course, having a similar ancestry is not required to become a Jew. Sure, many of the Jewish population share a common ancestry, but that is not always the case, like in people who convert to