Land of Israel

Why the crusades were a failure The crusades were a series of battles from western Christians that was fought against muslims and other religious groups to reclaim the city of Jerusalem and to eliminate the threat against the Christians. The Crusades resulted in the crusaders seizing Jerusalem and holding it for only about 90 years. Following the first crusade were 8 other crusade attempts that were completely ineffective. Overall, the crusades were a failure. It only caused tensions between…

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is a spiritual leader of Buddhists. He writes an article in the “Sunflower Symposium” (129), in which he claims that one should forgive but should not forget the atrocities of one person or persons. In his article, Gyatso shares two stories, one is about the China’s invasion of Tibet which costed 1.2 million of Tibetans, and the other is about a Tibetan monk who had been in the Chinese prison for eight years. Both of them explain the “Buddhist culture of…

Doctor Vickler Frankil, a holocaust survivor once said that “The last of human freedoms-to choose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Doctor Vickler Frankil meant by this quote that a group of people's freedom is being controlled by one person. An example of this would be the Jews and how their freedom was controlled by Hitler. The Nazi’s came and took over Germany on January 30 in the year 1933. The types of people that Hitler found unworthy of living was…

The life of Gregor von Rezzori is the story of a boy, and later a man, who is torn apart by his contradicting feelings towards Jews. The title of the article reflects that this story is not a snapshot of a certain period but rather it encompasses the first half of Von Rezzori’s life, from his childhood in the early 20th century to his eventual emigration to the United States after World War 2. The topics that appear in this article abstain from dwelling on Jewish stereotypes or fervent…

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.…