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May 14, 2021 · Learn the language of Jewish American life by reviewing the terms that illuminate the religious and cultural diversity of the Jewish community in the US.
Feb 25, 2011 · RUDIN: There are many Jews who are very unhappy with the various policies of the Israeli government and have expressed it. However, there is one thing that the overwhelming number of Jews...
Jan 22, 2011 · The first appearance of the word “Jew” in the Bible is in Kings II 16:6. Its connotation there is identical to that of “men of Yehuda”: “and drove the Jews from Eilat.” Over time, this name replaced the earlier ones, though the meaning remained unchanged.
Simple: A Jew is anyone who was born of a Jewish mother, or has undergone conversion to Judaism according to halachah (Jewish law). That’s the way it’s been since Biblical times and it’s also firmly established in the Code of Jewish Law.
Admur: acronym for “Adoneinu Moreinu V’rabeinu”—“Our master, teacher and Rebbe”; generally used as a reference to a great tzaddik, or righteous person, and specifically to the leaders of Chassidic sects. Adonijah: (d. 837 BCE) Son of King David.
In the Greek and Latin versions of the Bible, Shem becomes Sem, since neither Greek nor Latin has any way of representing the initial sound of the Hebrew name. Learn about anti-Semitism here. The Bible tells us that everyone on earth was drowned except for Noah and his family and that all mankind are descended from his three sons, Shem, Ham ...
Oct 21, 2024 · In 2,400 entries, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion covers more than three millennia of Jewish religious thought, custom, law, and practice, from traditional approaches to Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist and post-denominational Judaism.
