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90 unusual facts about Judaism


Albert Eichhorn

Albert Eichhorn (Karl Albert August Ludwig Eichhorn, 1 October 1856-3 August 1926), the author of Das Abendmahl im Neuen Testament, was one of the founders of the history of religions school, an approach that sought to understand all religions, including Christianity and Judaism, as socio-cultural phenomena that developed in comparable ways.

Alexander the Greatest

Alexander Green is a 16-year-old boy, who lives in Golders Green in London and who wants to leave his middle-class Jewish home.

And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place

The leaders represent several of the Earth's major religions - Jewish, Protestant Christian, Buddhist, etc.

António José, ou O Poeta e a Inquisição

Its plot is loosely based on the final moments of life of the Luso-Brazilian Jewish playwright António José da Silva, who was garroted and later burned by the Inquisition.

Arnold Wilson

In Wilson’s views, the priority was to reconstruct and stabilize the country, by establishing an efficient government and administration as well as a fair treatment and political representation of the various ethnic and religious communities (i.e., in the case of Iraq: Arabs, Kurds, Persians, of religions such as Islam Shiite and Sunni, Christianity and Judaism).

Arturo Alonso

Arturo Alonso was born on September 18, 1972 in the city of Granada, son of Francis, a bank employee of Castilian origin and son of Estrella Crypto-jewish or Crypto-Judaism descent.

Asser Levy Public Baths

Asser Levy was one of the first Jewish citizens of New York City, and a strong and influential advocate for civil liberties.

Atheist manifesto

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (French: Traité d'athéologie; 2005), a book by Michel Onfray

B'Nai Zion Temple

At that time, most members of the congregation identified with the Reform tradition of Judaism.

Babimost

In 1871 the town had 2272 inhabitants, of whom 1042 were Catholics (mostly Poles), 1070 were Evangelical Lutherans (mostly Germans) and 160 Jewish.

Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation

The congregation is "somewhere between Conservative and Modern Orthodox" with distinctive African-American influences; while men and women sit separately as in Orthodox synagogues, a choir sings spirituals to the beat of a drum.

As is traditional with Judaism, they do not seek converts, and members must study Judaism for a year before undergoing a traditional conversion requiring men to be ritually circumcised and women to undergo ritual immersion in a mikvah.

Bill Phipps

Phipps' views contrasted with those of the Alberta Civil Liberties Association, and conservative Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Mormon leaders who saw the issue as one of religious freedom.

Bruce Chilton

Bruce Chilton is a scholar of early Christianity and Judaism, now Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College, and formerly Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at Yale University.

Cernier

There were three individuals who were Jewish, and 56 (or about 2.92% of the population) who were Muslim.

Congregation Beit Simchat Torah

It is not affiliated with any denomination or branch of Judaism.

Connecticut Democratic primary, 2008

Pertaining to religion, Obama won all major denominations except Roman Catholics who backed Clinton with a 59-39 margin – Obama won Protestants 61-36, other Christians 63-33, Jews 61-38, other religions 65-32, and atheists/agnostics 52-47.

Dariusz Libionka

Dariusz Libionka born in 1963 in Bielsko-Biała is a Polish historian focused on the status of Jewish citizens in the Polish Republic, matters of Judaism and the Polish-Jewish relations.

Drosha

:Note: Drosha is an anagram for the word "hoards", and equally irrelevant to this article about molecular biology, Drosha, or Droshah, is the Hebrew and Yiddish word for sermon in Judaism.

East Side Hebrew Institute

But a quality Day School education, valuing Judaism and academic excellence, and offered at a rate lower-middle income people could afford, was something worth traveling to obtain.

East Slavs

In the eighth and ninth centuries, the south branches of East Slavic tribes had to pay tribute to the Khazars, a Turkic-speaking people who adopted Judaism in the late eighth or ninth century and lived in the southern Volga and Caucasus regions.

Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France

The Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France (EEIF, Jewish Guides and Scouts of France) is a Jewish Scouting and Guiding organization in France.

Edwin Vincent O'Hara

In 1940, he derided physicist Albert Einstein after the latter expressed his disbelief in a personal god, saying, "It is sad to see a man, who comes from the race of the Old Testament and its teaching, deny the great tradition of that race".

Elbert, Colorado

Additionally, 2.8 miles south of Elbert lies the JCC Ranch Camp, a Jewish camp owned by the Denver Jewish Community Center.

Eliyahu Kitov

Most of his education was from his father, R. Michel, who was a Chassid, a close student of Rabbi Zadok HaCohen of Lublin, and had a great influence in forming his personality.

As a Chareidi Jew, he was extremely dissatisfied with the terrible conditions the Chareidi workers experienced, and helped establish the Union of Agudath Israel workers (Poalei Agudat Yisrael).

In his capacity as an educator, he gave lectures in Talmud, Tanach and Jewish thought.

Farmington, Missouri

Many of these religious residents identify as Christians—38.08% are Protestants, 7.65% are Roman Catholics, 5.03% identify with another Christian faith, 0.43% are Mormons, 0.03% belong to an Eastern religion, and 0.01% are Jewish.

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late

As the protagonist of a series of novels, Rabbi Small has wisdom, an unerring sense of Jewish tradition (which can at times put him at odds with the Jewish community when he believes that they are seriously deviating from Judaism) and all the good qualities of a detective sharpened by his Talmudic training, which enables him to see the third side of a problem.

Gender separation in Judaism

In Orthodox Judaism, many believe that men and women should not swim together.

In Judaism, especially in Orthodox tradition, there are a number of settings in which men and women are kept separate in order to conform with various elements of halakha and to prevent men and women from mingling.

Many followers of Haredi Judaism have taken on the practice of separate seating while traveling.

Conservative, Reform, and other forms of Judaism do not have any restrictions on mixed swimming.

GURPS Fantasy

One significant difference this brings is that, unlike many fantasy settings, Yrth has many of the major Earth faiths as its core religions, including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and others.

Heavy Mental

The album is resplendent with references to Judeo-Christian-Islamic mythology and theology, drawing parallels to the condition of Black people in the United States to that of the Jewish people during Exodus.

Henry Earl J. Wojciechowski

He was Catholic, despite the "Jewish-sounding" moniker (he carried a rosary and a bible).

History of the Jews in Venezuela

The History of the Jews in Venezuela dates to the middle of the 17th century, when records suggest that groups of marranos (Spanish and Portuguese descendants of baptized Jews suspected of secret adherence to Judaism) lived in Caracas and Maracaibo.

Isaac Dobrinsky

His father was a religiously observant Jew and he himself was brought up in a traditional way: he studied in a “Heder” (Jewish elementary school) and in a “Yeshiva” (Jewish high school).

Ishmael in Islam

Ishmael, known as Isma'il in Arabic (Arabic: إسماعيل Ismā'īl) and Dhabih Ullah, is the figure known in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as Abraham's (Ibrāhīm) son, born to the Hagar (Hājar).

Jacob

Jacob had twelve sons and at least one daughter, by his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and by their handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah.

Jerusalem Council

For the Jerusalem Council in Judaism, see Sanhedrin

Jewish assimilation

Such Jews consider assimilation a loss of Jewish identity of an individual either by marriage to a spouse who is not Jewish or by abandonment of the Jewish religion to adopt another religion.

Jews for Judaism

They aim to help Jews strengthen and rediscover their Judaism.

Jews for Judaism Forums served as a home for many observant Jews, Noahides, practicing Jews, non-practicing Jews, and converts.

The organization attempts to counter the efforts of "Jews for Jesus" and other Messianic missionary organizations which believe Jesus to be God and one part of a Trinity, and attempt to proselytize Jews, claiming to be a legitimate form of Judaism, but considered by most Christians and Jews to be a form of Christianity.

John Philip Newell

In 2011 Newell launched the Praying for Peace Initiative in New Mexico to nurture greater relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and in the same year co-founded Salva Terra: A Vision Towards Earth’s Healing www.salvaterravision.org .

Judaism's view of Jesus

While these authors present positions which vary from mainstream views in Judaism, they still do not consider Jesus to be the Jewish Messiah.

Junko Chodos

She has an appreciation of a number of the world’s great religions, including Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity, and Judaism, an awareness complemented by curiosity about technology, biology, and the natural environment.

Kréma

Mint'ho is prohibited by some religions, including Judaism, because they contain animal gelatin and emulsifiers.

Lancy

There were 94 individuals (or about 0.37% of the population) who were Jewish, and 1,004 (or about 3.91% of the population) who were Islamic.

Lawrence Boadt

He deeply believed in the principle that Christians could best understand their faith by studying Judaism and suggested that Christians "could gain some feeling for the Old Testament by attending a Friday night Sabbath service at a local temple or synagogue".

Letter To God

Letter To God serves people from all religions and geographical locations wanting to express their wishes, thoughts, questions and prayers to God but have limited access to the Western Wall, one of the holiest places on earth in Judaism.

LGBT-affirming religious groups

The Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have traditionally forbidden non-heterosexual and non-vaginal sexual intercourse (both of which have been variously labeled as sodomy), believing and teaching that such behavior is sinful and derived from the behavior of the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Magid

Maggid or Magid, traditional Eastern European Jewish religious itinerant preacher in Judaism

Making of a Godol

and of various other Jewish sages of the 19th and 20th centuries, who are revered by Orthodox (especially Haredi) Jews.

Marcel Simon

Marcel Simon (1907 in Strasbourg – 1986) was a French specialist in the history of religions, particularly relations between Christianity and Judaism in antiquity.

Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias

More specifically, Sequeira Dias specialized in the history of Judaism in the Azores, as well as the influence of the Jewish population on the economic development of the islands.

Marriage license

From this date, a marriage was only legally valid, if it followed the calling of banns in church or the obtaining of a license—the only exceptions being Jewish and Quaker marriages, whose legality was also recognized.

Maryland Democratic primary, 2008

Regarding religion, Obama won Protestants by a margin of 51-44 percent, other Christians by a margin of 74-21, other religions by a margin of 61-39, and atheists/agnostics by a margin of 62-37; Clinton won Roman Catholics by a margin of 48-45 and Jews by a margin of 60-40 percent.

Melky Sedeck

The name of the group (and of the siblings) is an allusion to Melchizedek, a figure from Christian and Jewish tradition.

Messianic Seal of Jerusalem

The Messianic Seal of Jerusalem is a symbol for Messianic Judaism and Christians.

Neutopia

He said that gameplay and backgrounds remain varied and that "the fire rod weapon is especially fun to wield", but he noted that the things that keep the game from being better than Zelda were repetitive and frustrating dungeon exploring, boring boss battles, long passwords (for those who do not own a TurboGrafx-CD), and several "head-scratching moments" which include references to Judaism and Islam as well as quotes from Star Wars.

Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki

Holocaust survivor Yehudis Pshenitse has recounted the efforts of a parish priest from Nowy Dwór to save her life after the murder of more than 2000 Jews in Rembertów ghetto in August 1942.

Olympic Charter

There has been a suggestion from lawyers that, in the UK, those with a strong belief in Olympism could benefit from protection against discrimination in exactly the same way that followers of Islam, Christianity, Judaism or any other religion are protected.

Pilica, Silesian Voivodeship

Jews are first mentioned in Pilica in 1581, when they are accused of insulting the host.

Pratteln

There were 5 individuals (or about 0.03% of the population) who were Jewish, and 1,691 (or about 11.35% of the population) who were Islamic.

Prilly

There were 14 individuals (or about 0.13% of the population) who were Jewish, and 651 (or about 5.94% of the population) who were Islamic.

Progressive List for Peace

However, to provide what was viewed as balance, the authors also sought to outlaw left-wing parties which they viewed as threatening the Jewish character of the state of Israel.

Richard Rubinstein

After converting from Judaism to the Church of England, he married Gay, with whom he had been friends since their childhood, in 1943.

Rosemary Forbes Kerry

Rosemary was also the mother of another son, Cameron, who is General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was formerly a Boston lawyer, an adjunct law professor at Suffolk Law School and a convert to Judaism; and two daughters, Diana and Margaret Peggy.

San Francisco Zen Center

Sokoji—founded by Hosen Isobe in 1934—had been housed in a former Jewish synagogue that is now Kokoro Assisted Living.

Santa María la Real of Nájera

This has given rise to the suspicion that the craftsmen may have been Marranos or Crypto-Jews, and the cleverly concealed image is a symbol depicting the broken heart of Spain.

Shema Yisrael Torah Network

The Shema Yisrael Torah Network is a group of (mainly English) websites dedicated to spreading Jewish thought, halakha (Jewish law) and other material through the World Wide Web, email and written material.

St Kilda East, Victoria

The Rabbinical College of Australia and New Zealand (Yeshivah Gedolah Zal), a tertiary institution for the training of Orthodox rabbis and religious functionaries in the Chabad-Lubavitch denomination, is located on Alexandra Street.

There are many churches in St Kilda East, with many of the modern places of worship serving the Jewish Faith, but many of the older buildings have at some point served various Christian religions.

The Early History of God

The history of the emergence of Judaism and monotheism has been the subject of study since at least the 19th century and Julius Wellhausen's Prolegomena to the History of Israel; in the 20th century a work was William F. Albright's Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan (1968), which insisted on the essential otherness of Yahweh from the Canaanite gods from the very beginning of Israel's history.

The Little Drummer Girl

The story follows the manipulations of Martin Kurtz, an Israeli spymaster who is trying to kill a Palestinian terrorist named Khalil, who is bombing Jewish-related targets in Europe, particularly Germany, and the English actress Charlie, who becomes a double agent working on behalf of the Israelis.

The Mystery of San Nicandro

"How did Donato Manduzio — a crippled cobbler from San Nicandro, have visions that would permanently change the lives of hundreds of people? His determination to bring back Old Testament Judaism, spawned a whole generation of Italian Jews in Israel and Italy today. We were determined to find them."

The Serenity Now

The result gets the two Lippman men to want to renounce Judaism in order to be with her.

The Three Hostages

Next day he tells Greenslade all, and bids him remember where he drew his phrases, two of which, concerning a blind woman spinning and a barn in Norway, matched verses from the poem, while the third in Greenslade's speech referred to a curiosity shop run by an elderly Jew, which seems to bear no correspondence to the poem's reference to the "Fields of Eden".

Touro University Rainbow Health Coalition

Touro University Rainbow Health Coalition (RHC) is a group of students, faculty, and staff who promote health equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people at Touro University California, a Jewish-sponsored university in Vallejo, California founded by Dr. Bernard Lander.

The school cited "inconsistencies between the group's mission and Jewish law.".

United States Air Force Chaplain Corps

Air Force chaplains come from a variety of religious backgrounds including Buddhism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Protestantism, and any other religious organization with an endorser that has been recognized by the Armed Forces Chaplains Board.

Vaccination and religion

Mainstream Islam and Judaism, religions with dietary prohibitions that regard particular animals as unclean, make exceptions for medical treatments derived from those animals.

Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2008

Mercaz HaRav massacre: Eight Israeli civilians are killed and 9 wounded when a Palestinian Arab attacker opens fire at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.

Weber School

The Doris and Alex Weber Jewish Community High School, formerly New Atlanta Jewish Community High School, is a trans-denominational Jewish high school located in Sandy Springs, Georgia, a suburban Atlanta-metro area city.

Wiccan views of divinity

Gardner explains that these are the tribal gods of the witches, just as the Egyptians had their tribal gods Isis and Osiris and the Jews had Elohim; he also states that a being higher than any of these tribal gods is recognised by the witches as Prime Mover, but remains unknowable, and is of little concern to them.

World to come

HaOlam HaBa, or world to come, is an important part of Jewish eschatology, although Judaism concentrates on the importance of HaOlam HaZeh ("this world").

Yuval Ron Ensemble

The ensemble includes musicians of all three major Abrahamic faiths: Jewish, Muslim, and Christian.

Zeraphine

However, since the Helix name was taken by another band, they were forced to rename themselves Zeraphine – taken from the Hebrew Bible’s concepts of the seraph (or seraphim), a class of angel in traditional Judaism and Orthodox Christianity.


Alphonso de Spina

Thought by many to be a convert from Judaism, Alphonso de Spina was for many years superior of the House of Studies of the Friars Minor at Salamanca, and in 1491 was created Bishop of Thermopylae in Greece.

Antisemitism and the New Testament

On the other hand, some retort that Rabbinic Judaism is the heir of the Pharisees and that the verse should still be considered an attack on Judaism as a whole.

Bene Ephraim

Since the 1980s, about fifty families around Kottareddipalem and Ongole (Head Quarters of the nearby district of Prakasam) have studied Judaism, learned Hebrew, and built a synagogue.

Benjamin Wiker

In this book, Wiker aims to show how Darwinism by its very nature completely undermines the ethical foundations of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam because its materialist cosmology is incompatible with any concept of natural law.

Bill Loader

He is currently undertaking a five year Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship on: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic Greco-Roman Era.

Christ lag in Todes Banden

The fifth verse compares the sacrifice with that celebrated by Jews in the Pascal Lamb at Passover.

Conservative Judaism

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $500,000 to the faltering JTS.

Hand washing

Symbolic hand washing, using water only to wash hands, is a part of ritual handwashing featured in many religions, including Bahá'í Faith, Hinduism, and tevilah and netilat yadayim in Judaism.

History of Egypt under Anwar Sadat

The October War of 1973 launched against Israel began when the coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which occurred that year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Jewish English Bible translations

Barry Levy, "Our Torah, Your Torah, and Their Torah: An Evaluation of the ArtScroll Phenomenon" in Truth and Compassion: Essays on Religion in Judaism, Howard Joseph, Jack N. Lightstone, and Michael D. Oppenheim, eds.

Jewish views on contraception

Many modern Jews feel that the benefits of contraception, be they female health, family stability, or disease prevention, uphold the commandment in Judaism to "choose life" much more strongly than they violate the commandment to "be fruitful and multiply".

Jewish views on religious pluralism

Maimonides, one of Judaism's most important theologians and legal experts, explained in detail why Jesus was wrong to create Christianity and why Muhammad was wrong to create Islam; he laments the pains Jews have suffered in persecution from followers of these new faiths as they attempted to supplant Judaism (in the case of Christianity, called Supersessionism).

Julien Klener

His main teachings concerned: Judaism as a cultural system, Biblical Hebrew (undergraduate and graduate students) Comparative linguistics of the Afro-Asiatic languages(graduate students), Semitic Epigraphy(graduate students) and General Introduction to Semitic Studies(graduate students).

Kriminalgeschichte des Christentums

The Christian Anti-Judaism begins with the New Testament (see Antisemitism and the New Testament) and continues with the Church being interpreted as new Israel.

Kutz

URJ Kutz Camp, teen leadership camp in Warwick, New York (Union for Reform Judaism)

Lord Asriel

The name Asriel could be derived from the Hebraic name Asriel/Azrael, who, in the Jewish and Muslim tradition is the family of Asriel and is mentioned in the counting of the tribes.

Nancy Morris

During her tenure, Rabbi Morris was also a Guest Lecturer at the University of Glasgow where she lectured on Judaism.

Operation Luna

Religious diversity: Although the narrator, Steve, hints at his and his wife's vague Christianity mitigated by agnosticism, and the existence of a "One True God" is assumed, the reality of a diverse number of religious traditions is affirmed, including Native American (specifically Zuni) beliefs, Norse mythology, Asian traditions (specifically Chinese mythology), and Judaism (in a small part, as Steve regards the holiness of his Jewish neighbors with reverence).

Peace Mala

It consists of 16 beads, forming a double rainbow, which represent Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, Bahá'í, ISKCON, Zoroastrianism, Tribal and Native Religions, Jainism, Earth Religions, Taoism, Hinduism and Yungdrung Bön.

Pseudepigrapha

Examples of books labeled Old Testament pseudepigrapha from the Protestant point of view are the Ethiopian Book of Enoch, Jubilees (both of which are canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and the Beta Israel sect of Judaism); the Life of Adam and Eve and "Pseudo-Philo".

Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy

Students complete daily coursework in conversational Hebrew, the study of Chumash, Talmud, and Judaic history.

Reform movement in Judaism

From the Conservative movement, another liberal, non-orthodox Judaism approach was created by Mordecai Kaplan.

Religion in Latin America

Practitioners of the Judaism, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, Buddhist, Islamic, Hinduism, Bahá'í Faith, and Shinto denominations and religions also exercise in Latin America.

Röbel

The museum Engelscher Hof and the half-timbered former synagogue provide a permanent exhibition on Mecklenburg's Jewish history, commemorating - among other things - the life and work of Israel Jacobson, formerly consistorial president in the Kingdom of Westphalia and feudal landlord in Jördenstorf.

Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah

Jellinek thinks (l.c.) that there were several haggadic midrashim to Canticles, each of which interpreted the book differently, one referring it to the exodus from Egypt, another to the revelations on Mt. Sinai, and a third to the Tabernacle or the Temple in Jerusalem; and that all these midrashim were then combined into one work, which, with various additions, forms the present Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah.

Yossele Schumacher affair

In the shadow of a court order for his return and a possible police search, the rabbis of the Jerusalem Orthodox community disguised Schuchmacher as a girl and placed him in the care of a Frenchwoman and convert to Judaism named Ruth Ben-David (then Madeleine Feraille, later Mrs. Amram Blau), who took him with her to Europe.