Sephardi Jews

of Everthing You Need to Know about Becoming a Bar Mitzvah”). Also, the bar or bat mitzvah child must deliver a speech. This occurs either in the synagogue during the ceremony or at the following reception. In this speech, the young person usually reflects on the weekly Torah reading, applies the reading to his or her own life, and offers thanks to his or her teachers and family members, especially the parents (Schauss). Not only does the young Jewish person have to reflect on the Torah reading, but he or she often must also be able to chant the Haftarah, or portion of the Torah. While the chanting is not required in all Jewish communities, it is common, and often it is done in both Hebrew and English. Lastly, at the bar mitzvah the young Jew announces his or her Mitzvah project. There are 613 mitzvahs, so the child is asked to choose one, study it in depth, and focus on observing that commandment to the best of his or her ability (“Bar and Bat Mitzvah 101”). In order to achieve all these skills needed for the bar mitzvah, the Jewish child is enrolled in bar mitzvah lessons, taught by a rabbi or other Jewish authority, between six and eighteen months prior to the day of the bar mitzvah. At these lessons, he or she learns the significance of the mitzvahs and how to follow them. The child also practices reading Hebrew, learns the Aliyah blessings, and studies the fundamentals of Judaism (“Bar and Bat Mitzvah…

Queer Jews, “Next Year in Freedom! Taking Our Seder to the Streets”, aligned with many of my personal beliefs, but they also challenged and contradicted some of my opinions. In this essay, I will analyze the writing and beliefs of Hirschmann and Wilson. I will also discuss how their beliefs align or do not align with my own. To begin,…

knowledge so I can effectively treat clients of the Jewish culture if they present for treatment. Cultural Information Nearly seventy years after the Holocaust, the U.S has the second largest Jewish population the world, which is 5.7 million (Krieger, 2010). The population of the Jewish culture is growing over the years. According to Krieger (2010), Judaism is not easily defined; it is a combination of religion, ethnicity, and culture. The Jewish culture is extremely diverse with varying levels…

priests and Rome’s occupation in Israel. The feeding of thousands, the cleansing of the temple and His frequent conflicts with the Pharisees and Scribes serve as powerful testimonies to Jesus being a radical and powerful political figure. Conversely, Paul was a Roman Jew who was not subjected to victimization experienced by Jesus and the Israelites. As a Roman citizen, Paul was granted certain rights and privileges. The most important was the freedom from paying taxes that crippled the working…

Through the use of propaganda Hitler’s party convinced the German public that the Jews were bad people, and kept on promoting that theory. Furthermore, this lead the Germans to have a greater hatred for the Jews. Through the whole process of using propaganda, Hitler took the opportunity to build up a great amount of hatred with both groups of people. This in terms lead the Germans to want to kill the Jews, and torture them. An article published by the USHMM community states, “Shortly after the…

One of the most visible changes after the Exile is the emergence of a Jewish idea of Heaven, Hell, and the afterlife. Before the Exile and Persian contact, Jews believed that the souls of the dead went to a dull, Hades-like place called "Sheol." After the Exile, the idea of a moralized afterlife, with heavenly rewards for the good and hellish punishment for the evil, appear in Judaism. One of the words for "heaven" in the Bible is Paradise - and this word, from the ancient Iranian words…

There are many causes and lessons to be derived from the Holocaust, but the following three causes and lessons are the most central. The causes that were most central to the Holocaust were Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, ignorance and indifference from the German people, and the Industrial Revolution. We should learn from the Holocaust not to blindly follow authority, to search for knowledge to help others, and to not use new technologies to support genocide. These were the most central causes…

to pay off war debt as a repercussion. Germany needed a scapegoat. Their choice was the Jews. Propaganda used by the Nazis provided a hidden Anti-Semitic message and provided a falsehood of the treatment of the Jewish people. The question of ‘what is propaganda’ and how is it commonly used’ might be asked. Propaganda “uses words and word substitutes in trying to reach a goal…”(“Defining Propaganda I”). Propaganda is commonly different types of media. It portrays messages among masses of…

Lord Of The Flies Research Paper By: Sarita Pattisam William Lowenberg an Auschwitz survivor tells a story of something he witnessed. He said “He had a pistol in his hand and anything he saw moving, human beings, he shot, he used you for target practice.Life was absolutly,totally worthless to these people. That I remember.”(Lowenberg) Lowenberg was one of the millions of Jews who witnessed the horrific costs of war. He and many others will have to live with the memories, regrets, and loss for…

1. I believe the depiction of non-Jewish Poles in the book is negative. The caricature chosen to depict the Poles was the pig, a disorderly and dirty animal. The non-Jewish Polish governess stated, “It’s those Nazis stirring everybody up.” Anja replied, “When it comes to Jews, the Poles don’t need much stirring up!”(I/37). The Kapos in the books were non-Jewish Poles and they were brutal. Vladek states that all day they would kick, hit and yell until some dropped dead. They did this for “sport”…