Proper nounJews
From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. The Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים "Yehudim" IPA: jɛhuːdiːm), also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation. Converts to Judaism, whose status as Jews within the Jewish ethnos is equal to those born into it, have been absorbed into the Jewish people throughout the millennia. In Jewish tradition, Jewish ancestry is traced to the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the second millennium BCE. The Jews have experienced three periods of political autonomy in their national homeland, the Land of Israel, twice during ancient history, and currently once again, since 1948, with the establishment of the modern State of Israel. The first of the two ancient eras spanned from 1350 to 586 BCE, and encompassed the periods of the Judges, the United Monarchy, and the Divided Monarchy of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, ending with the destruction of the First Temple. The second era was the period of the Hasmonean Kingdom spanning from 140 to 37 BCE. Since the destruction of the First Temple, the diaspora has been the home of most of the world's Jews. Except in the modern State of Israel, Jews are a minority in every country in which they live, and they have frequently experienced persecution throughout history, resulting in a population that fluctuated both in numbers and distribution over the centuries. According to the Jewish Agency for Israel, as of 2007, there were 13–14 million Jews worldwide, 5.4 million of whom lived in Israel, 5.3 million in the United States, and the remainder distributed in communities of varying sizes around the world; this represents 0.2% of the current estimated world population. (Other sources cite higher estimates. For example, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics estimates the number of Israeli Jews to be 5.6 million and the U.S. Census Bureau estimates the American Jewish population to be as many as 6.4 million.) These numbers include all those who consider themselves Jews whether or not affiliated with a Jewish organization. The total world Jewish population, however, is difficult to measure. In addition to halakhic considerations, there are secular, political, and ancestral identification factors in defining who is a Jew that increase the figure considerably. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License Why did Nazis strip Jews naked before executing them during the Holocaust? Q. I often saw many Jews entering gas chambers in a row, stripped naked, in films set in the Second World War. And lots of naked Jewish women and men were forced to run through streets to a hill and were all shot dead there. And some anti-Semitic citizens and children were yelling at the naked Jews. I wonder why the Nazis stripped Jews naked before killing them? Is it because they wanted to humiliate Jews by stripping them naked, as a sign of hatred? Or is it because naked dead bodies were easier to throw away? The poor victims were not killed honourably. Asked by Tobias - Fri Jul 16 09:10:04 2010 - - 11 Answers - 0 Comments A. It was not the humiliation alone, as you can well imagine, it was unthinkable in those days and to a point still is, that one would be required to remove ones clothes. At the 'death camps' the men were immediately separated and so were the women and children. Given that the whole operation of getting these people to undress and supposedly go for their shower was expertly organized by the Nazis by means of having selected prisoners of war as well as male Jews help in the process of murdering there fellow human beings in exchange for their lives. For instance, at the height of the killings at Auschwitz concentration camp closer to 10,000 people were sent to their death's every day. The task of doing this was performed by the 'specially… [cont.] Answered by pro_sassenheime - Fri Jul 16 10:44:14 2010 What are some reasons that Jews should not have been allowed to form a homeland in Palestine? Q. For school I will be in a debate about whether or not the Jews should be allowed to live in Palestine (now Israel.) I need reasons for this, and also need to back them up. Right now I hardly even have any reasons. I need some reasons for the Jews to NOT be allowed to live in Palestine, and then I will back them up myself. Asked by MaxD - Sat Jan 30 08:52:36 2010 - - 11 Answers - 0 Comments A. In 1917 roughly 5% of the population of Palestine was Jewish. The majority Arab population did not want a Jewish state, and did not want Jewish emigration. However, the British controlled the area and allowed Jewish migration into Palestine despite the protests of the people. There was widespread rioting against this, as the Arabs were afraid they would be run out of their own land. By 1947-48, about 1/3 of the population was Jewish. The Arabs argued by majority right the land should be a single Arabic state. Many argued that the Jews who had been there before 1917 could stay, but Jews who had immigrated after 1917 should return to their original country. While Jews were ~1/3 of the population, they were given ~56% of the land in… [cont.] Answered by Bill Q - Sun Jan 31 10:25:57 2010 How do non-orthodox jews justify not doing the same things that orthodox jews do?
Q. I was speaking to some people who visited Israel, and they mentioned the orthodox jews are even more tied up in laws and rituals than the 'regular' jews. How do the non-orthodox jews justify not doing the same things as the orthodox jews if they are both meant to be obeying the Law? To follow on from that, do the orthodox jews believe that the non-orthodox jews are going to hell because they don't follow the same rules? Asked by Prizm - Sun Dec 13 08:09:41 2009 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments A. Some people are equating less religious to more religious Jews with different sects of Chrisianity. That's not accurate. It's different levels on the spectrum of observance but theology is pretty consistent. Christianity, the differences in theology-dogma ARE the point. Not so in Judaism & we remain one religion (this is important to understanding a lot of how Judaism works.) The difference is Orthodox follow commandments as interpreted in Talmud, very literally. Conservative follow them but with belief that Talmud standards can be reinterpreted to some extent within a modern context. Reform follows that Torah is to be followed, & the Talmud has great wisdom, but isn't literal in the following of it. Reconstructionist came from… [cont.] Answered by Cher was here JPA - Sun Dec 13 11:24:37 2009 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Jews" Quotes about Jews ContentsSourced
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