Judaism

slides and also included a couple of pictures along with a video to further explain the slide. I am interested in religion so I thought this story map was very interesting as I was able to learn about the sites that are important to Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. I was somewhat able to traverse through Jerusalem, however, it would have had more of an impact if the author was able to present the locations in a street view rather than just an overview of the area. Also, captions were missing on…

While reading the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, I found myself having an epiphany on page 69 of the book. Here, Elie is discussing a predicament the Jewish people in the concentration camp are having as Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday is approaching and traditionally people of the Jewish religion fast on that day. Elle said, “the question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death.” These two lines provided me with the sudden revelation of how religious many of the…

54) “We need to re-liberate the cotton” (Elterman) “There’s a conversation about whether or not Jews can pray at their holy place” (Sharon) Question: Reading Leona Anderson and Pamela Young’s book Women and Religious Traditions “Women in Judaism” and watching the two video clips concerning Women at the Wall by the New York Times and The Jerusalem Post I was upset to learn about the sufferings these women are facing. What upset me is that fact that these women are forced to conform to an…

After a visit to Emanuel Temple, someone will quickly learn two things: Christianity and Judaism are very similar, but also are very different. Oak Park’s Emmanuel Temple was built for its inhabitants to practice the belief of Judaism. On Sunday a group called "Kensington" sets up and performs services at Groves High school. These two churches are different, two different faiths, but have the same goal. This goal is to have people convert to their faith. Sure, the churches goal is the same, is…

would influence the development of the modern world. Two such thinkers were Maimonides and Ibn Rushd. Both Maimonides and Ibn Rushd sought to reconcile pagan Greek philosophy with the monotheistic religions of al-Andalus, Islam in Ibn Rushd’s case, Judaism in…

Christianity and Judaism have played a crucial role in the development of class and gender roles. There are both similarities and differences within the various ways each has influenced the development of these social constructs. In many ways the ideas of class and gender presented by Judaism are ultimately adopted by Christianity. However, Christianity also offers some unique and important developments of its own. One of the most definitive texts on the role of gender in Judaism is the book of…

In The Jewish Question, Karl Marx questions whether or not the Jewish people can achieve civil and political freedom in the world (Marx 1). Marx asserts that all individuals, including the Jews, need to forfeit their religion to obtain civil freedom (Marx 3). Similarly, individuals need to abandon their religion to gain political freedom (Marx 5). Therefore, Marx emphasizes that everyone must lose something in order to gain freedom (Marx 3). Marx states, “We must emancipate ourselves before we…

flocked to Jerusalem to visit the temples and even when those temples had been destroyed, the remained faithful to their holy land. Reasons as to why can be negotiated, but the historical lineage of Jerusalem and Israel is one that will always tie Judaism to its central holy place. The Jewish people are held to God by a covenant and anything that derives from that covenant is sacred and valuable to them. One main reason Jerusalem remains so important to the Jewish people, is that they see the…

While I was definitely moved by his writing, there wasn’t a seismic shift in my perception of my own Judaism. But there were certainly remnants of Night that remained on my mind as I embarked on my journey to Israel. With Judaism only marginally related to my life, a trip to Israel did not seem relevant or fun, chiefly because spending time with my extended family is not a favorite activity of mine. But the trip…

stereotyping is the central view in which Jews are presented as being nasty, vicious and immoral people whom nobody desires to associate themselves with. The medieval times in which Chaucer lived in were full of stories exemplifying conflicts between Judaism and Christianity. During this time, there was a grown form of religious rivalries between the two. Chaucer utilizes The Prioress’s Tale as a commentary on the anti-Semitic culture of the churches through an allusion to a story about a…