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Over 600 people attend the conference.

Well the Jordan River was the major river and the Sea of Galilee with the Dead Sea were the two inland seas.

The British Mandate of Palestine was established in 1919 and was then partitioned into what is commonly known as the British Mandate of Palestine and the British Mandate of Transjordan (because it was on the opposite side of the Jordan River). This division came into existence because the British had promised the Hashemites (an important Arab family) a Kingdom for support in World War I. As a result, Transjordan fell under the control of the Hashemite Kings. When Transjordan became independent as Jordan in 1946, the Hashemites retained control of the country and still rule it to this day.

The people of Jordan today are mixed. 40% of them consider themselves endemic Jordanians, which is to say that their ancestors lived in Transjordan before the independence because their ancestors lived in what remained in the British Mandate of Palestine until the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9 (when presumably they fled to Jordan). It is important to note, however, that most Jordanians (endemic or Palestinian) consider themselves to be part of the same people: The Arabs of Bilaad Sham. (Bilaad Sham covers what is today Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, and is traditionally translated as "Greater Syria".)

What conditions did the British expect Zionists

to meet?

during WW1 english gov promise to saudi arabs that it will give them a kingdom including palestine and syria. this is the mac mahon pledge. But no none heard about it until the end of the war. French wanted to be mandated on syria and lebanon so they expelled the arab so-called king. Then they agree to the english demand to recognize the mac mahon pledge. So they did. But this had the great difficulty that Balfour declaration which was accepted by all occidental nations included transjordan; and the jews couldn't establish in this part after the creation of jordan kingdom

This is a forfaiture of english since they have the mandate on all palestine that is Israel and jordan and they unilaterraly separate jordan which is a palestinian territory.

See if this helps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_native_plants_of_Flora_Palaestina_(A-B)

Conventionally, Orthodox Jews call their places of worship a Synagogue and Reform Jews call their place of worship a Temple.

A synagogue will have a clear separation between men & women; with the women behind a partition or on a balcony. Temples have mixed seating.

Synagogues follow the Hebrew order of prayer that Jews have been using for over 1,000 years - you can use a 600 year old prayer book and feel at home. Temples use whatever the latest version of their prayer book is - and it's not necessarily in Hebrew.

In a synagogue all public posts (Rabbi, Sexton, Gabbai, etc.) will be held by Jewish men. In a temple some of these may be women, some of whom may not Jewish.

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That's much too simplistic. Many Orthodox Jews call the synagogue a "shul," which is a Yiddish word, and literally means "school." But you will hear that word from Jews of any affiliation who speak Yiddish. Reform Jews did once call their synagogues exclusively "temples," because of a philosophy that the Land of Israel was anyplace where there were Jews who formed a community. But after the Holocaust that philosophy changed, and many Reform thinkers began to question whether that was really possible. So Reform edifices built or named recently tend not to be called "temples." There is also a movement within Reform Judaism to return to traditional ways of living. These Jews still consider themselves Reform Jews, with liberal ways of thinking in regard to women's roles in worship, and as leaders, but reject the sort of "Classic Reform" ideology of 1880-1940, or so, where Judaism tried to come into line with gentile ways of doing things, like calling rabbis "ministers," and singing hymns with organ accompaniment. Nicknamed "Reformadox," such Jews would reject the idea of calling a synagogue a "temple."

There are also a few smaller denominations of Judaism, such as Reconstructionism, which is older than the Conservative movement, and does not use the word "temple," and the fairly new Renewal movement, which has very few edifices of its own, and is new enough that there are not yet many people who "grew up" as Renewal Jews, but members of that movement would tend to shy away from the word "temple," to describe a building, as most of them regard the Temple as a spiritual domain.

Using the word "Orthodox" as though it means one thing is also incorrect. There is Modern Orthodoxy, and then there are the Haredi (sometimes called the Ultra-Orthodox, but they personally find the term offensive), and different ways of expressing those ideas. There are people who refer to themselves as "observant," or "traditional," while rejecting an identification, or affiliation, with a denomination.

There are even synagogues which are unaffiliated.

Any one synagogue will have people with different personal levels of observance, and while it's true you would not find someone at a Haredi shul who refers to it as a "temple," you certainly hear both "shul," and "synagogue" among other Jews. Both those raised in Conservative and Reform homes, as well as those who grew up in Jewish homes that were unaffiliated, people will say "temple," but they tend to be older people, usually older than about 55. Younger people will usually say "synagogue," but some say "shul," and others, who come from large congregations, might call the building the "JCC," for "Jewish Community Center," with the place within the JCC set aside for worship being referred to as the "sanctuary."

Ashkenazic Jews are European Jews, who are said to be descended from Ashkenaz, great grandson of Noah. ( Ashkenazi was the son of Gomer, who was the son of Japeth, who was the son of Noah).

The Bible does not say when Ashkenaz died, but Barry Setterfield has dated the death of Ashkenaz's cousin Shelah (another great-grandson of Noah) at 1769BC (when he was 403 years old) and assuming the great-grandsons lived to approximately the same ages, Ashkenaz would probably have lived to be about 400 years old also. He has dated the birth of Shelah's eighth-generation descendant, Jacob (later re-named Israel), at 1787BC and the date of his marriage at 1710BC, by which time Ashkenaz would have probably died.

Note:

Ashkenaz and Shelah were from different branches of the family (Ashkenaz's grandfather was Gomer, but Shelah's was Shem) so Ashkenaz was unrelated to the tribes of Israel. Besides, the twelve sons of Israel after whom the tribes are named hadn't even been born yet.

The land of Israel belongs to the Jews, which was given to them by God thousands of years ago.

The Arabs are thieves and murderers.

If you mess with Israel, you mess with God and that is not a good idea.

The incident you're referring to is related in Genesis 34.

I do want to note first that "the 1948 war" is actually an on-going war since that date (it has not ended). The refugees traveled (on foot) to the neighboring countries: Lebanon (north), Syria (north east), Jordan (east), and Egypt (south west)

If you did it all in one hop along the great circle route, from the southeast end

of Runway 5 at Buffalo Niagara International to the east end of Ruway 25 at

Ben Gurion International, that would be a trip of 5,785.75 miles.

hmmm in Jerusalem the inbal and in telaviv i have no idea SO THE ANSWER IS THE INBAL

Either by Taxi, fastest and easiest, or by bus. Otherwise, renting a car is a good option also.

In terms of direction, you exit the airport to the #1 Highway and continue east to Jerusalem on the same highway.

It's less than an hour's drive.

The Gaza Strip.

It is currently administered by Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist Terrorist/Paramilitary Organization.

The Sadducees split off from the Pharisees around 200 BCE. The movement was made up of the priests and aristocrats of Jewish society. The did not accept the validity of the Oral Torah and believed in a strict, narrow, and unchanging interpretation of the written Torah. Examples of some beliefs they rejected are: immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the dead, and the existence of angels. They were Temple centric and would sometimes buy their way into the office of High Priest. Even though they took such a narrow view in regard to Torah interpretation, they were strong assimilationists in terms of society and adopted the ways of Greek culture. The Sadducees died out with the destruction of the Second Temple.

The Pharisees believed that HaShem gave the Jews both a written and an oral Torah, both of which were equally binding and both of which were open to interpretation by rabbis. Pharisees were devoted to the study of Torah and the education of all people, regardless of status in society.

The Pharisees detested hypocrisy and actively sought it out and criticized it whenever they encountered it. Examples of this hatred of hypocrisy can be found in the Gemara in Sotah 22B with several caricatures. They strongly denounce the pious man who cared more for his own purity than for human life; for the young woman who's overly zealous in her devotions; the widow who showed of her religious observance; and to the self-appointed Torah decisors who lacked the knowledge and qualifications to do the job.

The Pharisees were the only movement to survive the destruction of the Second Temple and were the ancestors of modern Judaism.

David committed two main sins the first was he committed adultery with Bathsheba .The second was sending Uriah to the army front so that he would surely be killed. So he then married Bathsheba

over 10.000 people

it could be considered simple assault which is a class 6 misdemeanor or higher depending on if it was intentional.

Prior to 1948, Palestine had gone through a number of demographic shifts. The Roman sacking of Jerusalem in 70 AD resulted in many Jewish inhabitants being enslaved, although many Jews and Samaritans in the countryside remained. Many Jews moved back to the land over the following centuries as indicated by the many Sephardic villages in Palestine and all over the Middle East. Despite the Muslim conquest, the Crusades, and the Ottomans, the Sephardic Jewish population of Palestine grew, and the Old Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem was often the most populated in the city.

In the 19th century, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe began moving to Palestine for reasons religious, zionist, and/or due to anti-semitic pressures in Europe...this is the time many people consider "the return of the Jews to the Holy Land" which fails to recognize the continuing presence of Sephardic Jews.

In the 20th century, the Jews of Palestine, considered themselves Palestinians until Israel declared independence in 1948, at which point they considered themselves Israelis. At that time, Jews and Muslim Arabs were in almost equal numbers along with Christians, Druze, etc.

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Clear, running water that does not contain excrement and has not been used for washing is generally safe to drink. Many of the towns in Galilee and Judea were served by springs and clear streams, which would have been reasonably safe.

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