Orthodox Judaism

Ancient civilizations have played a major part in the development of religion. From the land of the Aztecs to Greece, the different civilizations have various aspects that have made huge impact on their development. In particular, the Sumerian civilization has one aspect that makes it unique to the others. Their myths and spoken word creates explanation of how the world was created. While they are not the only civilization to use myths, Sumerian stories have yet to cease to exist. As stated…

In the Television show Southpark their is an episode called "Cartmanland", it reflects upon two characters and their fortune. Cartman is one of the young characters who is a jerk, yet somehow ends up inheriting a million dollars and buys himself an amusement park. Meanwhile, another character named Stan (who is well behaved) feels like life is cheating him because he isn't rewarded, instead is punished with a hemroid. This episode of Southpark teaches us that God has a plan for all of us, we…

The literary devices used in the preceding passage show us not only the importance but the combination of images and their consequences give the preceding excerpt its considerable impact. As he reflects upon his horrific first night in the concentration camp and its lasting effect on his life, Wiesel introduces the theme of silence, his loss of faith in God and his own struggles and development. He uses anaphora, which involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line or…

Courage to Care Award Is it necessary to be the same race in order to help save someone’s life? Between January 30, 1933 and May 8, 1945 dictator Hitler took control of Germany. Also, he created the “Final Solution” which was a plan to exterminate all Jews by sending them to concentration camps and labor camps. He used propaganda techniques to convince German citizens that Jews were corrupted, cruel, and awful individuals. Over time, Hitler expanded his camps and territory by conquering other…

What is antisemitism? It is the hatred of Jewish people. Anti-semitism has not just been around for the last one hundred years; it has been around since the medieval times. Many laws were passed to isolate and persecute Jews in the medieval period (The Holocaust Explained). Jewish people were seen as a threat to Christians. The laws passed did not allow Jews to own land (The Holocaust Explained). Because of being prohibited from owning land, they could not become farmers. Also, another…

In the next stage of Elie’s relationship with God, we start to see him doubting God and thus Elie’s conflict with his faith in God begins. He states, “As for me I had ceased to pray...I was not denying His existence but I doubted His Absolute Justice “ (45). As Elie experiences dehumanization and witnesses atrocities be committed by the Nazis, he begins questioning his and can’t understand why God has yet to intervene. The Holocaust exposes to Elie the cruelty, selfishness, and true evil of…

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when the text says “My father was a cluture man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings not within his family, and was more involed in walfare of others than his own kin” Two singificant themes related to inhumanity discussion in the book Night Elie thought he was dreaming because of the great sight of men, women, and children getting burned and killed.This is what the book says, “I pinched…

After the innocent were hanged, Elie felt enough sorrow to claim that the soup tasted of corpses. This is how things were for him, what reluctantly became natural. This beautiful novel takes Elie through history of the Holocaust, showing the effects of the Jews’ experiences. Elie was admittedly naïve and very religious. Although things do turn bitter when it came to the Nazis crushing him spiritually as his faith in God completely falters. Soon to be proven, Elie grows through these…

correlation of the Holocaust. However, now the Star of David has more of a positive correlation again. The Star of David is once again a symbol of proud Judaism. I live right next a dominantly Jewish neighborhood and I see the Star of David displayed proudly outside of different establishments especially synagogues. The symbol was at first a sign of Judaism, then a symbol to represent the Holocaust and now once again it is restored to its original…

World War II was a tragic time in history 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…