Conservative Judaism

Living the life I live today, I could not imagine having to live off of goat milk, eggs, UN rations, or whatever I could grow along with getting brutal beatings in and outside of school. In Of Beetles and Angles by Mawi Asgedom, it tells the story of Mawi and the difficulties, hardships, and experiences that he faces in the refugee camp in Umsagata, Sudan in the early 1980's. In differeation to my life, Mawi had to experience a lot of difficulty in the camp; there were brutal beatings in and out…

denominations began to adjust their beliefs in order to bring them into line with modern scientific and social thoughts" (Bruce 68). In the United States we have people who are either liberals or conservatives. Liberals are open to new ideas and are willing to discard old ones as they see fit. Conservatives don't change traditional values, they values they have stay the same. Even in the United States these two groups go back in forth on ways they see things and how things are handled. Bruce…

The Ultimate Realities of Confucianism and Judaism There is a prominent concept that is intertwined in a variety of faiths, it is called Ultimate Reality. An Ultimate Reality is the pervading and spiritual power that is present within many different religions, whether or not it is blatantly obvious. Just like how Jewish people have God, there are many manifestations of an omnipotent being or power that build the foundation for said religion, for example the use of Genesis in the Jewish Bible…

Throughout history art has been a medium of delivery for meaning, messages, emotion, and religion; just to name a few. From Egyptian hieroglyphics to the political propaganda of the 20th century, art has delivered a wide variety of meaning to their interpreters. However, the depth of the meaning of art would be undecipherable without the several key elements and principles of art. That being said, it is crucial for one to understand the various aspects of an art piece in order to decipher the…

Chapter 1 Summary: Their in a small town and people were taken by soldiers Key quotation: “It belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone” Questions/Reflections: What is a Yellow Star? Why were Jews told to wear them? Why did the storyteller and his family get to stay and everyone else was taken? Chapter 2 Summary: The story teller and his family were taken into a train with the rest of the people and were brought to the first camp that they stay at. Key quotation:…

Danny and Reuven are proof that opposites do attract. They met by an unfortunate event where Reuven got hit in the eye by Danny’s ball in a game of baseball. Reuven’s eye was pretty badly injured and he was taken to the hospital. While Reuven was in the hospital recovering from his injury, Danny visited him and tried to mend what had been broken by saying he was sorry. At first, Reuven wanted nothing to do with Danny,but Reuven’s father convinced him to accept Danny’s plea for forgiveness.…

128232: Life German leader, Adolph Hitler, conducted the largest genocide of the Jews, homosexuals, and anyone that did not have Aryan characteristics. Many people today study and observe the horrific events that took place throughout World War II. What many people do not consider is all of the survivors that lived through Hitler’s reign. Solomon Radasky once said, “When a person is in trouble he wants to live. He fights for his life…” (Radasky). All of the people that were imprisoned struggled…

Some biblical writers, in the Old and New Testament, recognized God presence in their midst and experienced the transforming power of divine grace. Some of the writers portray God to have a humanlike personality, a cosmic authority character traits and behaviors of bewildering variety, he is the creator of everything. However some authors portray God as love, generosity, compassion, and merciful, while others emphasized his anger and violence. God is portrayed a eager to save his creation and…

“In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die” (Elie Wiesel). This alternate universe is nothing but one of destruction: the death of the soul. When one is constantly being beaten down, one no longer desires to live. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the Jewish people lose their desire to live as a consequence of enduring extreme dehumanization at the hands of the Nazis. The Jews’ desire to live…

In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice loss is portrayed in various different ways. The character Shylock, who does not have much to begin with, suffers numerous losses as the play progresses. Some of the losses he experiences are also experienced by the characters in the poems. The character Shylock is constantly dehumanised by the other characters as he was a Jew in a predominantly Christian society, this also happens in the poem ‘Refugee Blues’ by W.H. Auden, which is a poem written in the voice…