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    Furthermore, Jewish terrorist groups comprised of mostly Orthodox Jews have been active for decades and their terror acts were mostly committed in Israel and adjacent disputed territories, also known as Palestine. They combine their religious motivations with political and territorial goals. They tend to be religious Jews whose rhetoric, motivation and purpose are deeply religious. These Halakha-centred Jews engage in horrifying acts not only on the settlements and disputed land but also at…

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    Throughout history, propaganda and censorship have been instrumental in capitalism and in government. Manipulative strategies have been used by the third reich and American Eagle alike. Scapegoating, through techniques like transfer and pinpointing, has always been there on the personal level and on the grander level, and its popularity will remain. Scapegoating is used because propaganda that promotes fear and blame towards a weakened minority will find more success in control than propaganda…

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    The Chosen Movie Analysis

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    being the first Messiah. The Jewish had 613 commandments while the Gentiles have 10. Being chosen means you have great privileges and trials. In the film, they are currently going through some of those trials. The Jews in Europe are dealing with the Holocaust, and the local Hasidic Jews are discriminated against for their appearance during the movie. In Jewish history, which is a divinely inspired one, when things go wrong it is a test of enduring pain. An example is when Abraham was willing to…

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    neighborhood. It is notoriously known to an unsafe and run-down neighborhood, but the recent gentrification of the neighborhood is proving its reputation wrong. There have been numerous reports of tension and anti-Semitism between the Black people and Jews in Crown Heights. One of the main incidents that occurred between them is the August 1991 riot, which was said by Henry Goldschmidt, a scholarly author and researcher, to be the most anti-Semitic riot in all of history. The riot reflected the…

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    “An early influence on this movement was Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), a major thinker and writer. Mendelssohn although he was not a Reform Jew, helped shape Reform and Orthodox Judaism” (Molloy, 2010. P. 335). The bases of Reform Judaism began in Germany out of a desire to leave ghetto life (Molloy, 2010). As we looking into the 21st Century the Reform Jews are still holding on to their own practices which are; males and females do not set separate during worship, services are conducted in…

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    that describe non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. This is because, resisting the Nazi movement during World War 2 was deemed as a capital offense; accordingly, people who helped Jews would have been incarcerated in camps and executed. However, Père Jacques, a French Roman Catholic priest, is an example of someone who audaciously went against the Nazi ideology, following his beliefs. When asked why he had disobeyed the laws against sheltering Jews, Jacques said, "I…

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    smuggling. Rescue during the Holocaust had a wide range of phenotypes, or how they were displayed. “People such as laborers, teachers, and factory owners fooled the Gestapo and concealed and protected Jews” (Hogan 432). Despite the fact that many people did not agree with the religious beliefs of Jews, they came together to rescue those in danger of Nazi…

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    The Schindler's List

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    scene, now in black and white and becomes a plume of smoke from a steam engine. A folding table is setup on the train platform where a single family registers as Jews. The single table becomes many tables, and the single family becomes a large crowd. Close-up images of names being typed into lists provide a sense of the vast number of Jews arriving in Kraków. Oskar Schindler appears in his Krakow hotel room. His face is not shown but the focus of…

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    with extreme situations and violence towards them. Facing persecution and often attacked by anti-Semitic views of the host countries they inhabited, the Jewish population was in a way being isolated and singled out. For example in imperial Russia, Jews were being subjected to pogroms, or violence against their beliefs and practices. The term came into widespread usage after the riots of 1881 and 1882 in the Russian Empire (Klier, 2010). Herzl would use the atrocities…

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    of the Holocaust on the Jews Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He initiated World War II and oversaw Nazi policies that resulted in millions of deaths. The Holocaust was one of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies that was generated by widespread anti-Semitism, absolute terror, and human experimentation. Anti-Semitism in Germany resulted in many difficulties on Jews during the Holocaust. The Nazis and their collaborators terrorized Jews by taking away their…

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