Orthodox Judaism

For the dead and living, we must bear witness of the empirical pandemonium for the victims of the Holocaust. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a haunting yet powerful fictional story written by John Boyne. The book offers a unique perspective on how prejudice hatred, anti-Semitism and injustice affected innocent people during WWII. The novel largely centres on a crucial theme of injustice faced by Jewish people. There is much evidence to prove this statement as it is represented in countless…

A hated and loved religion by many in history and many in the present. The Roman Catholic church, created by Jesus himself in the first century AD. The Catholic Church invites everyone from anywhere in the world to the Catholic faith. The first ever Catholic church and Christian community was made in Jerusalem. Saint Peter, the first Pope, led more than three thousand people in the Christian community(A Timeline of Catholic Church History). The first holocaust, modern journalists would call…

Essay Question #2 Melanie A Morway October 6, 2016 The way that our text book describes Charlemagne and the way that the selection from Einhard describes Charlemagne are different in several ways, yet there are some similarities. Our text book describes him as a man that was instrumental in implementing the practices of a Feudal society in Europe. “Perhaps the most important ruler to codify and adopt these practice was Charlemagne, who dreamed not only of unifying Europe…

drama-induced film with a powerful message of integrity that religious women uphold. Arranged is a film that displays traditions that are very important in a religious household, such as marriage. Coming from two completely different traditions, Rochel, an orthodox Jew, and Nasira, a dominant Muslim, come to realize that their process for marriage is very similar. I chose to do this assignment rather than the bus ride because once I read what the movie was about, I began to be very interested…

When reading pages one hundred four through one hundred fifteen there were many personal emotions. This was especially present when Eliezer's father died. It was very sad because Eliezer's father had been through so much already being in the concentration camp itself, but died crying out for Eliezer. He was also so close to being free from the camp. A lot of emotions were also present when Eliezer finally made it out of the concentration camp. It was very emotional because he was one of the very…

Deuteronomy 31, 32 and 34 give the account of the succession of Moses by Joshua. When Moses was leading the Israelites out of Egypt, he had several disagreements with God, and as such he could not enter the Promise Land. Among the disagreements included the time he broke the tablets of the Torah and God made him curve them again himself. Also, he was aging and his time of death was near. He, therefore, needed a successor who would lead the children of Israel into the Promised Land. He gathered…

Throughout the entire Hebrew Bible, multiple claims are made about the God of Israel. Some of the most important claims come from the book of Exodus. In Exodus 15: 1-21, Moses and the Israelites sang a song that entailed multiple claims about God. They sing just after they finally escape the clutches of the Egyptian Emperor. In the previous chapter, Moses is leading his people, or the Israelites, from Egypt where they were held as slaves for many years. Within this chapter, the Israelites…

he term "pogrom" became commonly used in English after a large-scale wave of anti-Jewish riots swept through south-western Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine and Poland) from 1881 to 1884 (in that period over 200 anti-Jewish events occurred in the Russian Empire, notably the Kiev, Warsaw and Odessa pogroms).[3] The trigger for these pogroms was the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, for which some blamed "the Jews".[4] The extent to which the Russian press was responsible for encouraging…

Ed Welch’s A Small Book About A Big Problem packs a massive punch about the dangers of unmortified anger in our lives. The book itself is very small in size, and its nearly 200 pages are divided into 50 days of devotions which can each be read in 5 or 10 short minutes. Be forewarned; you will walk away convicted on most days! If you haven’t discovered that anger is a sin struggle in your life, Welch may help you discover the ways this deceitfully hidden sin takes root in your life. A Small Book…

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a boss is, “a person who exercises control or authority.” In the Phi Delta Epsilon (PhiDE) International Medical fraternity New York Delta chapter, the bosses of the potential new members are Sylvia Ayoub (Vice President Recruitment), Christina Walker and Jordan Moass (Recruitment Chairs). On wanting to join the pre-medical fraternity, we were to ardently follow and abide by the rules and standards set by the recruiting VP and chairs. Of the rules,…