Politics of Israel

The meaning of Messianic Judaism is explained by Rabbi David Chernoff as “a movement of Jewish people who believe that Yeshua (Jesus Hebrew) is the promised savior (Chernoff 1).” The messianic movement welcomes the gentile or Christians and Jews alike to join together for worship. The rituals of the Messianic Congregation are the same as Judaism, including the observing of the traditions and holidays of the Jewish people with one main difference in belief. The difference being, in Rabbinic…

Septuagint The Septuagint is important and significant in understanding the history of Judaism. The word that should be highlighted in this statement is history. For something to have historical significance to a religion like Judaism, it must be important in the religion’s past and should relate to human affairs. The Septuagint is important and significant in understanding the history of Judaism because it is a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, resulting in the understanding and sharing…

My Response to Night I personally would comply with them so that I would not get shot or hurt. I would hide all of my money and anything that is valuable in my basement ( Jews were prohibited from having jewelry, gold, or any valuables Pg.10).I would be doing this so that I could keep me and my family safe if I had one. I would feel sad because he were forced to leave everything behind. Besides that I would look forward for better days. My reaction to the problem would be too make sure that I…

Can immigrants leaving Syria, secretly be members of terrorist organizations? America’s involvement in the Middle East to stop the conflicting wars between the Syrian government, terrorist groups, and the rebels have allowed for the Syrians to leave the country. Since the beginning of the war in 2011, 250,000 Syrians have been killed, 4.2 million Syrians have registered as refugees, and 7.6 million Syrians have been internally displaced. With the recent increase in the amount of Syrian…

Passover (Pesach) Passover is a Jewish holiday that is celebrated in the spring, from the 15th through the 22nd of the Hebrew month of Nissan. Passover is the holiday of Matzot, and the holiday of Freedom. It’s the holiday of Matzot because, that is what the Jewish people ate when they left Egypt. It’s the holiday of freedom, because that’s when the Jews we free of slavery and left Egypt. There are a few parts of Passover but I’m only going to discuss 3 of them, The Story of Passover/ plagues,…

In the Eighth Century, both the Northern and Southern kingdoms were experiencing hardships due to an unstable political situation, and the threat of Assyria’s ambition for conquest. There were great social inequality and injustice amongst; the rich took advantage of the poor, evidently having forgotten about their ancestors in bondage in Egypt. Their worship was said to be hollow and once again the people began to worship Baal. It was during this time that four prophets emerged to try and get…

Rabbi Meir said: When the Jews stood before Sinai to receive the Torah, God said to them: "I swear, I will not give you the Torah unless you provide worthy guarantors who will assure that you will observe its laws." The Jews responded, "Master of the world, our forefathers will be our guarantors!" "Your guarantors themselves require guarantors!" was God's reply. "Master of the world," the Jews exclaimed, "our prophets will guarantee our observance of the Torah." "I have grievances against…

“Displaced: Introduction” Jake Silverstein, The New York Times Magazine, 8 Nov. 15, Children all over the world are affected by war, taken from their homes and forced to grow up. Currently, thirty million children are displaced, most recently the media has centered around the problem in Syria and yet, displacement is in Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. The New York Times would like to share the stories of the displaced children all over…

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible share many common elements amongst their narratives, but certain elements of these narratives such as the change of pace in characters, narratives, morals, and the general concept of the contexts make the two collections contradictory to one another. In addition, the narratives change pace through different events, results of different stories, different points of view, and through details that are or may not be mentioned when comparing the two collections.…

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…