Islam/Judaism/Christianity Essay

what Blu Greenberg asserts in her belief about feminism in Orthodox Judaism. Her assertion is that the culture and societal forces keep women in subservient roles within Orthodox Judaism. In Karl Marx’s book, The Communist Manifesto, he asserts that society changes only when there is a change to the ruling class, that the ideas and beliefs within the ruling class translate to those who don 't have the means. In Orthodox Judaism, the ruling class would be the men who wrote the Talmud, interpreted…

Introduction It is imperative for a social worker to realize how their own values and cultural upbringing may affect his or her practice. Events that occur in childhood may have long term implications as adults which can affect one’s practice and/or judgements. One of the many definitions of International Social Work includes a locally based practice, informed by international knowledge (Healy & Link, 2012). That is a large reason why I am taking this course; to gain a broad perspective of the…

Within the time preceding and during the holocaust there were instances of Jewish resistance, though they seemed few and far between. The instances of resistance were primarily behind the scenes and subliminal, mainly consisting of passive resistance to segregation. In addition to this there was outright resistance though very limited primarily during deportations and city cleansing. The final form of resistance that was practiced was the act of resisting death through hiding and escape. These…

F ollowing Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332B.C.E. the history of Alexandrian Jews began. While native Egyptian’s, Greeks, Phrygians, Boeotians and Cilicians resided alongside the Jews the Roman’s are of particular interest. Their once peaceful relationship changed course resulting in the destruction of Alexandrian Jews in 117C.E. This article focuses on the relationship between Jews and Romans in Alexandria looking at their, economic, religious, political and civil relations. With…

How many Holocaust survivor 's have you encountered? It 's not something you would think a survivor would want to talk about. The hurt and the loneliness of feeling that their God had abandoned them. Their families being torn apart, and running away from their very being (pretending to not be Jewish). To live through such a planned tragedy is unfathomable today and to recognize that the period of suffering of the Jewish people was less than a Century ago is crazy to think about. The survivor 's…

It has been 71 years since the end of the Holocaust, the event which ended up with six million Jews exterminated; the word “Genocide” was born, and the faith in God for the many of those who survived is challenged. Elie Wiesel, through his book, Night, narrated his experience in Auschwitz. It was where most of his family was not survive, where he had to see the scene of death, and where his God “were killed”. Throughout the story, the author showed that a person’s faith in God can be tested when…

Response Paper 1: The Covenant The Israelites were a small society that was located at the border of Egypt. It was between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the desert to the east. (Tignor 143) The Israelites culture is estimated to have emerged in the area of present-day Israel between 1200 and 1000 BCE. (Tignor, 144) Though it was a small society, the growth of the cities occurred due to religious reasons under the king 's rulerships, in Jerusalem. Under their leadership was a great God…

The Jews are not hoping to be dealt with so horrendously, but rather they are not willing to starve and be treated so harshly by the Germans. Close to the start of the diary, Eliezer experiences lost confidence in the wake of seeing terrible demonstrations of barbarism. The Jews were dealt with as though they were refusing in the city. Nobody felt the need to say anything on the grounds that they felt they would be beaten considerably more. " The individuals who kept noiseless yesterday will…

In the article, Does Taglit-Birthright Israel Foster Long Distance Nationalism, it discusses how participants from the program feelings were affected based on attachment to Israel and their political standpoint. The commonly known belief that attitude towards your homeland is linked to ethnonationalism, which is connected to the work done by Benedict Anderson. Anderson’s theory of long distance nationalism is that diasporans feel disconnected because of the distance between themselves and their…

In the handout on Anti-Semitism and the excerpt titled, How Jews Became White Folks by Karen Brodkin, it is clear that the structure of injustice presented in both of these pieces was that of institutional anti-Semitism. According to Michael Lerner, the definition of anti-Semitism is “the systematic discrimination against Jews and against Jewish cultural, intellectual, and religious heritage” (Adams pp. 135). Prior to the readings, I had the misconception that anti-Semitism strictly occurred in…