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Can immigrants leaving Syria, secretly be members of terrorist organizations? America’s involvement in the Middle East to stop the conflicting wars between the Syrian government, terrorist groups, and the rebels have allowed for the Syrians to leave the country. Since the beginning of the war in 2011, 250,000 Syrians have been killed, 4.2 million Syrians have registered as refugees, and 7.6 million Syrians have been internally displaced. With the recent increase in the amount of Syrian…

Passover (Pesach) Passover is a Jewish holiday that is celebrated in the spring, from the 15th through the 22nd of the Hebrew month of Nissan. Passover is the holiday of Matzot, and the holiday of Freedom. It’s the holiday of Matzot because, that is what the Jewish people ate when they left Egypt. It’s the holiday of freedom, because that’s when the Jews we free of slavery and left Egypt. There are a few parts of Passover but I’m only going to discuss 3 of them, The Story of Passover/ plagues,…

In the Eighth Century, both the Northern and Southern kingdoms were experiencing hardships due to an unstable political situation, and the threat of Assyria’s ambition for conquest. There were great social inequality and injustice amongst; the rich took advantage of the poor, evidently having forgotten about their ancestors in bondage in Egypt. Their worship was said to be hollow and once again the people began to worship Baal. It was during this time that four prophets emerged to try and get…

Rabbi Meir said: When the Jews stood before Sinai to receive the Torah, God said to them: "I swear, I will not give you the Torah unless you provide worthy guarantors who will assure that you will observe its laws." The Jews responded, "Master of the world, our forefathers will be our guarantors!" "Your guarantors themselves require guarantors!" was God's reply. "Master of the world," the Jews exclaimed, "our prophets will guarantee our observance of the Torah." "I have grievances against…

“Displaced: Introduction” Jake Silverstein, The New York Times Magazine, 8 Nov. 15, Children all over the world are affected by war, taken from their homes and forced to grow up. Currently, thirty million children are displaced, most recently the media has centered around the problem in Syria and yet, displacement is in Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. The New York Times would like to share the stories of the displaced children all over…

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible share many common elements amongst their narratives, but certain elements of these narratives such as the change of pace in characters, narratives, morals, and the general concept of the contexts make the two collections contradictory to one another. In addition, the narratives change pace through different events, results of different stories, different points of view, and through details that are or may not be mentioned when comparing the two collections.…

Furthermore, Jewish terrorist groups comprised of mostly Orthodox Jews have been active for decades and their terror acts were mostly committed in Israel and adjacent disputed territories, also known as Palestine. They combine their religious motivations with political and territorial goals. They tend to be religious Jews whose rhetoric, motivation and purpose are deeply religious. These Halakha-centred Jews engage in horrifying acts not only on the settlements and disputed land but also at…

Syria is a country in Western Asia, the absolute location is 33.5000oN, 36.3000oE. Syria is borders Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea on the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq on the east and Jordan to the south. The population of Syria today is 22,087,048. Syria considers their government to be a republic government. Their government consists of an executive, legislative, and judicial branch. When leaders are getting elected, the president is elected by the popular vote, then the president…

Introduction: In March of 2011, the nation of Syria plunged into a brutal, costly and deadly civil war when rebel armies formed in response to the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad. Islamic State extremists seized this opportunity to take advantage of the political mess and began to build their Islamic State nation. Since 2011 when the civil war began, the world has seen 12 million Syrians flee their homes and often nation, over half of them children. The global community is split between the…

peace between Israelis and Palestinians? The shortfalls of the United States lead peace process have numerous factors. The most blatant problem is the changing government officials, and political movements involved. Throughout the peace process Israel has seen over 10 different prime ministers with 5 different political parties elected. (http://www.stateofisrael.com) Many of these had very different social and political agendas toward the One State and Two State Peace Agreements. Throughout…