Haredi Judaism

While religion appears to represent the faithful nature of the characters in Patrick Suskind’s novel, Perfume, the love the characters hold for their religion instead hides their selfish natures. With the knowledge that God offers forgiveness, the characters feel the ability to succumb to their own pleasures and God-like dreams. Throughout the novel Perfume, the main character, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, aspires to gain enough power to become greater than God. With the hope of gaining enough…

Jesus’s parables teach Christians how to live faithfully in the presence of God for the duration of their lives. Through these parables, Christians are taught how to respect, appreciate, and love themselves as well as others. However, the big problem in Christianity is that many people tend to forget about these teachings and commit actions that are against what the parables teach. On the other hand, if authentic parable-based Christianity were to exist, it would be a fully inclusive community…

Mendoza the Jew Throughout life’s journey, we tend search for the things that complete our hearts, mind, and souls. We often find comfort in the little things in life to distracts from the bigger issues we face. In Mendoza’s case, boxing was his happy place. Boxing was his way of coping with the negative judgment and prejudice theories many people in his country had about the Jewish population. In the mist of finding ourselves, our happy place can affect our relationship with our society…

preached by its religious leaders. There was a sense of equality amongst the followers of the faith and things like social status no longer mattered. What made Christianity appealing was that followers did not have to abide by the strict laws of Judaism to be considered, it was a religion that allowed in a way more freedom. People joined because the faith that the Christian community had in God was tremendous, and no matter what happened to them, they knew they would be saved by…

Brief Background Jonathan Lopatin is a former Partner and Managing Director of the Goldman Sachs Group, who retired in 2000, following Goldman’s IPO the previous year. “Jon” had been with Goldman for sixteen years and was a manager of its foreign exchange sales and trading business. He was a colleague, (and friend) of Eric Dobkin. He is also a Jewish scholar having graduated with an MA in Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2009, an activist who has served on many Jewish…

The Dehumanization of Jews by Hitler and the Nazi Regime Hitler and his Nazi regime used effective tactics to dehumanize and degrade the Jewish people, and reduced them to nothing but small beings that they could then rid themselves of. Some of these tactics were small, and some of the tactics were large. No matter the size, all of these tactics were completely inhumane and horrifying. Sadly, they also all took place in the book Night, by Elie Wiesel. His memoir can attest to how…

Before Jesus came to earth, some Jews knew that they were missing something. They were missing a leader, a messiah. The Jews needed someone they can recognize to lead them on the right path in life and grow closer to God. Those who waited were able to understand Jesus was this one immediately when they met him, but it took others longer. Some Jews wanted to hurt this man who came on earth claiming to be God because they did not believe. They wanted to punish him for a lie he was not committing,…

Heroism can be described in many different ways and seen in many different places. Heroes are brave, selfless, smart, caring, and willing to risk everything to do the right thing. A hero can be seen as the person who flies in and saves a town from a fire breathing dragon, a strong man who climbs a tall tower to save a damsel in distress, or even a little girl that helps the elderly woman down the street with her groceries. World War II was a gruesome battle between a multitude forces and in…

(4) Elie himself does not even understand his deep devotion to God. However, this does not deter his faith in God and it only makes him want to seek the answers. He asks Moishe the Beadle to be his mentor and to teach him the mystical secrets of Judaism. Later in the concentration camps, when Elie expects he is to be minutes away from his demise, he spitefully thinks, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The almighty, the eternal and terrible Master…

The Old Jewish Prague is the second oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe. You can see gravestones from various historical periods there: long black Gothic ones, marble stones from the 16 th century, typical Renaissance decoration, mighty Baroque gravestones, and some of the Rococo ones. This cemetery was founded in the April 23, 1439 and is the oldest existing graveyard from the 15th century. This Jewish element has been the foundation of the medieval Prague and has a unique look to it since the…