Bereavement in Judaism

ARIEL, DOMINIQUE H. "Queering Zionism." Jerusalem Post, Mar 11, 2016, pp. 12. eLibrary A 16 year old, Shira Banki at a Jerusalem pride parade was stabbed to death by a zionist or pro-israel man. This caused a meeting of LGBTQ Task Force and other national LGBT organizations to sit down and discuss the action that will be taken to reinforce anti-hate. As a result, complaints were made when a leader of a prominent LGBT organization in Jerusalem, Sarah Weil came out as a zionist. While the…

Throughout the years, Christianity has spread and it’s estimated that there’s 2.2 billion Christians in the world today. A religion that many thought would never grow to be so prominent, yet it has affected and has been part of society for so long. But how did this all began and who were the main responsible for this. The answer is in Israel, with a man called Paul of Tarsus. Paul was born in Tarsus, both his parents were Jews and Roman citizens and due to them Paul inherited a Roman…

Jesus was the messiah, the savior, and the suffering son. His purpose was already planned. Jewish high priest said that Jesus was taking part in blasphemy. They felt it was better for one man to suffer than a whole nation to die. The high priest wanted Jesus to be put to death. He was arrested and betrayed with a kiss. Jesus was taken to Pontius Pilate, he was the roman governor of Judea at that time for his fate to be judged. Pilate thought Jesus was innocent, but in the end he let the crowd…

Deuteronomy 8:11 NLT "But that is the time to be careful! Beware that in your plenty you do not forget the LORD your God and disobey his commands, regulations, and decrees that I am giving you today”. Todays man have neglected their assignments. As leaders we were warned in the beginning not to forget The Lord your God, especially now that we are starting to enjoy times of success (Things Are Good ). Not only have we forgotten, -- we have turned against God completely. The God that brought…

I arose from my slumber and I heard the soothing voice of the Lord that told me to go to Bethel. I announced to my household and every being who was with me that we would journey to Bethel. I demanded my people that they must put away their foreign gods that were among them and purify themselves and change their garments. I had taken these items and I hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem. As I was journeyed with my sons a terror from God fell upon the cities nearby. Finally, I…

No one alive today knows truly how we came to be. All we have today are just stories. many conflicts arise from who or what created us. Christians believe that the almighty God created everything we know and see. That God created us, humans, and Earth and the heavens. While Native Americans believe in the creation story. They both have many similarities as to how things came to be. The first similarity that i noticed in both stories is that they have magical trees that lead to problems. In the…

In today’s society, Christianity and Islam continue to structure the way people live. According to my findings, Islam is the religion that intrigued me the most. Islam is the most widely practiced religion in the world. Islam, respectively, is a complex and popular religion and has an interesting history to go along with its rich culture. Islam is an in depth faith that shares many spiritual similarities and differences with Christianity. One reason I chose Islam instead of Christianity is…

Israelites emerged as a motion, a people with a sense of community and common faith.” It would be impossible to say that the largest influence the Hebrew Civilization had on the West, was not religion. It doesn’t have to be specified into Christianity or Judaism. It can simply be put into the faith of believing, the power of believe in large groups…

The Book of Esther, also known as “The Scroll”. in The Hebrew Bible, recounts the restoration of God’s people, the Jews, from a death sentence. The purpose of the Book of Esther is to display the providence of God, especially in regard to His chosen people, Israel. Again, we are met with the same lesson that we can extract from Genesis, Exodus and Job: trust in God completely. However, as we analyze the characterizations of women in Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, the Book of Genesis and the Book of…

The Abrahamic religions— Christianity, Judaism and Islam— have been at odds for most of their existence: from the Crusades, to the Holocaust, to the recent Iraq War. That’s why it was rather surprising to see the respect given to Christianity and Judaism in the Qur’an. When most people look at the Middle East today, it seems like a conflict that’s intertwined with religious tension: the Christian-based Western coalition allied with the Jewish Israeli state facing off against Islamic states and…