Jehoram of Israel

Have you ever wondered how Palestine became occupied? How people suddenly started calling it Israel? I was shocked to see that because of the occupation in my country, Palestine, my grandparents had to flee the country, and how some people refer to it as Israel instead of the true name Palestine. Yasser Arafat was the founder of the Fatah. He spent most of his lifetime fighting Israel and that is why many Palestinians admire and respect him. Arafat died at the age of 75 from a mysterious blood…

Palestinian immigrants. Kanazi’s grandmother was pregnant with his mother when she left Palestine in 1947. Around this time there was a great exodus or “nukba” of indigenous Palestinians, just as the land was being annexed to create the new state of Israel. Kanazi’s father left Haifa after the occupation had already taken place. Born in New York City in 1981, Kanazi has only ever seen his homeland as a visitor, with his country being under occupation for the entirety of his life. Kanazi’s…

Jose was born on December 23, 1893 in San Vicente, El Salvador. He was a Salvadorian army colonel and diplomat. He saved at an estimate of 50,000 European Jews from Nazi persecution by providing false Salvadorian papers. He was in the Salvadorian military for over 26 years. He was later approached from a Jewish man. Asking Castellanos for help on saving him and his Jewish family. He got them fake Salvadorian papers and saved that family from the death camp Auschwitz, that was his first…

If you look at the picture I was given you won’t see much. At first glance you will only see skeleton like bodies being thrown into the bed of a military truck. Yet if you continue to look you may be able to see more. You may be able to see the pain these people endured before meeting the relief of death. You may also see those are still alive. Are they jealous? Would they much rather be dead then continue to suffer the daily anguish of being Jewish decent during one of the darkest times of the…

Introduction The term “Judaism” derives from Iudaismus, a Latinized form of the Ancient Greek. Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world that still exist today. (“Judaism”. ReligionFacts.com 10 Nov. 2015. Web. Accessed 18 Feb. 2016 www.religionfacts.com/judaism My understanding of Judaism is that it encompasses the religion, culture, and life of the Jewish people. Judaism never had a dominant number, but it is still around today. Why did Hitler hate Jewish people? Hitler did…

The Jewish people took great pride in their language as it represented to them something greater than themselves. “Hebrew literacy is key to Judaism to joining the unending dialect between sacred text, between Jews of different ages, between God and Israel. To know Judaism only in translation is, to quote Bialik, akin to kissing the bride through the veil” (Levine,…

Visiting the Holocaust Center was such a great privilege to have, even though a lot of the things that were on display may have been difficult to look at. Remembering those that died during the Holocaust helped me to stay strong because I know that there were people that couldn’t do that. Learning about that terrible time in history is hard for so many people, but we do it in remembrance and commemoration for those that we lost. There were many things on display that were just simple enough to…

The holocaust is a very important and sad tragic that happened around the 1940’s when millions of jews were tortured and killed by Hitler. Not many kids in today’s society know much about the holocaust. Hannah just like other kids today was shocked when she saw what really happened at those camps. A girl named Hannah doesn’t care to learn about this tragedy until she opens the door to Elijah and has to relive her relative’s experience. The Devil’s Arithmetic is about a girl named Hannah.…

Life in the ghettos and the concentration camps during the Holocaust was brutal and their lives were in the merciless hands of the SS officers. The Jews were taken from their homes and put into force labor and worked in conditions that were cold, rainy, muddy, and Jews slept on concrete or wooden beds. Jews first started out in the ghettos and then were moved to the concentration camps where selection and forced labor began. Many of Jews were killed and put through brutal lives. The prisoners…

“I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith” ( Rose Kennedy). Bereft of faith, one is merely an empty shell who strives for nothing in life. Elie Wiesel uses Night to comment on the effects of the Holocaust that cause the loss of his faith. Elie Wiesel, once a religiously dedicated child, endures anguish and suffering in the concentration camps, which leads to the wavering of his belief in God and ultimately the destruction of it, transforming him into a…