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The Jewish Fighting Organization (Z.O.B) was formed on October 20th, 1942. Z.O.B stands for Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, which is Polish for Jewish Fighting Organization.“ The fighting Organization is unified, strategies are planned, underground bunkers and tunnels are built, and rooftop passages are constructed. The Jews of…

describing the importance of education and financial success to support their families. The Jewish culture also places emphasis on marriage and building a family to create the next generation. For the interview project I completed with a person from the Jewish community, she reported that family is a major part of her culture. The article written by Schlossberger & Hecker (1998), explains this point by saying, if a Jewish couple does not reproduce, Hitler wins in a sense. I found this extremely…

family and in faith In The Chosen by Chaim Potok there is a lot of conflict with family and faith. To start off with Reuven and Danny become good friends after Danny nearly blinds Reuven during their intense softball game. Both boys are from different Jewish backgrounds. Reuven is a traditional Orthodox Jew and Danny is a Hasidic Jew. Reuven’s father is a dedicated scholar who wants his son to be a mathematician, but he wants to be a rabbi. Danny’s father is the head of…

Chaim Potok, born February 17, 1929, was a Jewish Rabbi and author. After his Jewish education and rabbinic ordination, Potok graduated with a phd in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. Shortly afterward, he published his first book, The Chosen. In the Chosen, Chaim Potok uses setting and its description to emphasize the character’s change and growth, symbolism to convey to the reader Danny’s difficult upbringing, and in the end expresses the motivation behind such a method of…

In the book Masada there is love, death, fighting and fear. This is what actually happened in Masada. Masada is an ancient place with lots of history with it. The life at Masada was very frightening, because you have to spend every day fearing for our life. The gruesome way that all the people of Masada died was gruesome. HISTORY OF MASADA The word Masada means “mountain fortress.” The Zealots, who lived on Masada, held back ten-…

need to protect Jewish tradition in the face of acculturation. He states that Hasidism was a conservative movement with entrenched dynastic leadership and a clear agenda of opposition to any deviation from religious law. In the face of growing challenges to tradition, Hasidism joined with the emerging Orthodox Judaism which had turned against various modernist…

when millions of people lost their lives in a war that caused so much destruction. During the war the Jewish population of Warsaw, Poland were persecuted and killed for their identity as Jews. In Jerry Spinelli’s Milkweed, we are shown a glimpse of the past during the horrors of World War II through the lives of three fictional characters Misha, Janina and Uncle Shepsel. During the war the Jewish people living in Warsaw, Poland were stripped of their identity and were treated as less than human…

To understand why certain things happened in my story must understand I am Jewish. For those who may or not in Judaism we have three pilgrimage holidays Passover, Sukkos, and shavous. In ancient time my ancestors would travel to the holy temple in jerusalem. Now this day all we have left of the Holy Temple is Western wall so we don 't a make a pilgrimage. My story takes place during the time of Passover which falls out in the spring about three years ago. Now passover just so you know is one of,…

Some Like It Hot (1959) is an all-time classic Hollywood comedy directed by Billy Wilder. The story follows a smooth saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his intuitive bass-player best friend Jerry (Jack Lemmon) after they witness a Mafia massacre. The two buddies create a spontaneous plan to get away from the Chicago native mobsters. Joe and Jerry disguise themselves as cross-dressed women and join an all-female jazz band who are boarding a train from Chicago to Florida. The story heats up…

spent my days in a hotel pondering when I would have another opportunity to kiss a girl while thousands of others perished. I was disappointed in myself, yet relieved. I suppose this is what led me to work for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. I helped resettle Jewish refugees in Palestine for the next three years. I truly think this work liberated my soul and helped me become a humbler person. I came to terms with my experience during the Holocaust and was determined to make a…