Jewish population

one of the most important aspects of practicing the Jewish religion. The word synagogue comes from a Greek origin meaning to gather or come together. Prayer can be practiced any day of the week and is usually in small groups. Praying as a single is not common in Judaism but praying with a group of guys or with a group of girls is common. The leader of the prayer at a synagogue is what 's known as the Rabbi. Rabbi’s can also be teachers of the Jewish religion and also teach laws they must carry…

I attended a Reform Jewish service at Temple Beth Shalom in Vero Beach, Florida on Friday, October 23, 2015 at 7:30pm which is known to the Jews as the Sabbath or Shabbat in Hebrew. I met a fellow student Mitzie Chatram at the Temple approximately fifteen minutes early so that we may introduce ourselves to the Rabbi. From the parking lot I was drawn immediately to Temple’s roof line which was dramatically arched with its highest point in the center and the sides bowed inward. There was beautiful…

The religious site that I visited is called Beth Israel Worship Center, a Messianic Congregation, located at 11 Railroad Ave, Wayne NJ. I attended the 8PM service on Tuesday, September 29th 2015 . This service specifically focused on the Jewish holy day called “Sukkot” also referred to as the Feast of Tabernacles. Sukkot is a Autumn festival celebrated of each year, on the 15th day of Tishri, according to the Hebrew calendar and is commanded Torah and the Old Testament in the Book of Exodus…

trip to the Jewish synagogue in Nashville, TN was cultural trip that taught us how the Jewish people lived, the different holidays, the different sects, and the different laws of the church. I learned the Jewish traditions and how the traditions have evolved from America. The lady who spoke to us in the Jewish synagogue was very passionate about her religion. She lives close to the synagogue because of religious purposes. She had strong views and told us about the life of a Jewish. She…

The main theological or cultural differences that might lead to differences in observance of Yom Kippur is the approach each has to traditional Jewish law. As the “Institute of Curriculum Services” (2008) website states, traditional law includes both moral requirements and ritual obligations. The moral obligations focus on charity and pursuing justice, whereas the ritual obligations are such things…

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…

world. Language is a basis for culture and culture creates connections in societies. Yiddish helped Jews keep their traditional culture by giving them a way to communicate and spread traditions orally without having to be educated. It is not until Jewish citizens have been forced to listen and interact with non-Yiddish speakers do they lose a sense of community and culture. Paralleled in the stories of Sholem Aleichem,…

Public Need During the 20th century immigration was very huge matter. According to Michael E. Fix and Jeffrey S. Passel (2002) in an article, they spoke about how the United States immigrant’s population grew quickly during the 1990s. America had many people coming from all over the world. The Act provided for those who are family-based and employed-based visas made available to citizens of a single independent overseas state that may not surpass seven percent of the total available (Greenwood…

“Everything is happening at once and everything is happening to everybody” is a quote from the World Service Authority’s article “World Citizenship Defined” (Lechner & Boli 492). This quote means to say that what happens in the world affects everyone in one way or another. In a sort of butterfly effect phenomenon, the civil war in the Syrian Arab Republic and the ensuing flight of several million Syrians across Europe has affected the economies of several countries, albeit in different ways and…

Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, Therefore Jewish memory.” (viii). Hitler wanted to the Jewish people out, out forever like they never existed. Hitler didn’t want to have Jewish people in the world because he did not like them. He like what they were believing didn’t agree about how they live their lives. The Jewish people were stripped of the pride, religion and…