Secular Jewish culture

celebrations in other religions and that of Judaism is that a Jewish boy’s coming…

one of the most important aspects of practicing the Jewish religion. The word synagogue comes from a Greek origin meaning to gather or come together. Prayer can be practiced any day of the week and is usually in small groups. Praying as a single is not common in Judaism but praying with a group of guys or with a group of girls is common. The leader of the prayer at a synagogue is what 's known as the Rabbi. Rabbi’s can also be teachers of the Jewish religion and also teach laws they must carry…

The Holocaust was a time of pure evil and grief. From when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, lasting to the day the war ended in 1945, the Jewish population was taken from their homes, put to work, and faced with shocking living conditions. One of Hitler’s goals was to racially cleanse the society of Germany and areas in Poland to become a complete Aryan race. In 1933 the first concentration camp was established. These camps were used as either work camps, transit camps, or killing…

is taken first to a ghetto, and then to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. It is also a story of pure “survival” (Avni 1). Elie is most certainly a survivor. “Night” is Elie’s individual account of his personal experience, however it speaks volumes for ALL Jewish and war prisoners. In his memoir,…

Hitler removed laws that protected the citizens of Germany and established laws against the Jewish community that treated them unfairly. Furthermore, Hitler treated the Jewish community miserably outside of concentration camps as well as inside concentration camps. He commanded that horrific things to be done to the people who were sent there. Hitler abolished laws such as the civil…

In the article An Army of Garment Worker, the author talks about Jew’s in America. When the Jewish people from Russia arrived in America they had great skills, mostly skills in making garments, tailoring and making other clothes, before the arrival of the Jewish people, however the German Jews were here before them and were dominating in the garment industry, together the Russian Jews and German Jews were making history in the garment industry. Everywhere people went in the Lower East in New…

Did you know that 17 million people died during the Holocaust. 6 million of those people were Jewish. The book Night an the speech Peril of Indifference describe the hardships of the Jews. They are both written by Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust. Night is a description of Elie’s journey through the Holocaust, and Perils of Indifference was the speech he gave at the White House for the Millennium Lecture Series. Night is more effective at projecting Elie’s message that indifference is…

In the first two acts of the play, Merchant of Venice, Shylock, a Jewish money lender, is a villain in which we should be aware of. The first example we see this is in 1: 3 when Shylock reveals his hatred for Antonio for his religion, Christianity. However most of all Shylock despise Antonio for lending money without any interest. This shows that Shylock hates Antonio for no legitimate reasons. Being a Christian is not something that is to be hated upon. Lending money without gaining profit is a…

a result of the Holocaust, six million Jewish people and millions of other people were killed. Nazi Germany decided to instate a killing program because they felt it was “the final solution to the Jewish question” (Holocaust). One reason that the Holocaust is unique because of the motivation to kill the Jews. Nazi Germany decided that they had a “mission of cleansing humanity of a cancer” (Bauer 15). On the surface this goal seems erroneous since the Jewish people were “a group of people who…

EXPLORING ANTI- SEMITISM- A GLOBAL HISTORY OF JEWS At the beginning of 2013, the world’s Jewish population was estimated at 13,854,800—an increase of 101,500 (0.74%) over the 2012 revised estimate . While the world's total population increased by 1.16% in 2012, the World Jewry increased at less than two thirds the general population growth rate. The trend which was mapped was that since the 1970s, world Jewry stagnated at zero population growth for nearly 20 years, with some recovery during…