History of Judaism

Because the word "continue" doesn't apply. They weren't admitting Jews in the 1930s-40s, period.

Until the First World War, there wasn't so great of a problem with immigration; but there was also not that much motivation for mass movement of Jewish populations, since anti-Semitism was relatively static, ubiquitous, and low-level (with the exception of Russia). But by the time the 1930s had arrived, with the sudden spike in hatred of Jews by Germany, nationalism and border-control had also spiked, and people were suddenly unable to immigrate freely to the various destinations. America (for example), which had accepted 1,800,000 Jews before WW1, suddenly made a drastic reduction in the numbers permitted to arrive there. The same thing happened (for other reasons) in the British Mandate in Israel (Palestine). The only place in the world to which Jews could enter uninhibited was Shanghai; and about 25,000 did so, despite the vast distance and the hardships involved. Even there, the Nazis badgered their Japanese allies to kill the new Jewish community.

Another point is that no one predicted that the Nazis would overrun all of Europe; so that Jews who did move out of Germany were killed anyway.

Also, the Nazis used a tactic of deception, right up to and including the last few minutes in the gas chambers which were presented as showers. Very few people were aware of what the Nazis were perpetrating. What was happening was unprecedented and inconceivable even as it was going on.

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The question as posed is nonsensical. Zionism is the movement responsible for the entire creation of Israel. The changes "due to Zionism" are completely inseparable from the changes that occurred naturally as Israel developed as a State.

Herzl explained quite well that the European concept of a nation-state was dependent on the idea that all of the people in any particular nation were of the same ethnic stock and heritage. Jews were branded by this system to be "the Other" and were regarded at best as possible equals and at worse as traitors, spies, thieves, and fifth columns. When the Dreyfus Affair turned out marches in Paris that said "Death to the Jews" on account of a kangaroo court against a particular guiltless Jew, it became clear that the Jew could not be integrated into Europe. As a result, the Jew had to create his own state. This idea of Jewish Nationalism was termed Zionism.

Jews have been treated in all sorts of ways by non-Jews over their long history - in fact, they have experienced pretty much the full spectrum of human reactions to other groups in society.

There have always been friends of the Jews, as many people have greatly admired what they see as the strong tradition of education, scholarly study, analytical thought, lawfulness and business expertise often associated with Judaism and as a result there have been times when Jews were given protection by kings and governments. However, and as we all know, there have been very many times when Jews were subjected to the grossest inhumane cruelties, from the times of the ancient Egyptians and Amalekites, the attempt to destroy them in ancient Persia which is remembered every year at the Purim festival and, most notorious of all, the horrors that took place during the Holocaust in the 1930s and 40s; and hundreds of anti-Jewish attacks, pogroms and massacres in-between.

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are all Abrahamic religions, that is, they all share the common background of the ancient prophets of Abraham, Moses, Noah, Adam, and others. Judaism draws its roots from Moses, in about 1400 BC; Christians began in about 30 AD with Jesus; and Muslims began about 500 AD with Mohammad.

The Promised Land, or Holy Land was the region of land in which God promised to Abraham's descendants (see Genesis 17). God promised to make Abraham into a father of nations through his son Isaac and make his descendants "extremely fruitful."

God later appeared to Abraham's grandson Jacob (Genesis 28:13-15) and promised him this land also, because it was through Jacob's descendants that the promise would be fulfilled (Jacob was later named Israel - the nation which would take the promised land).

The promise was fulfilled when Israel finally took the promised land which God told them to go and enjoy (Deuteronomy 1:8).

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Jews are still awaiting the coming of the messiah. And a few conditions need to be in place for when the Messiah comes. The Land, "Isreal" is a big part of these conditions.

It depends on the exile in question. Most Jews that wanted to returned to Land of Israel after the exile in Babylonia on account of Cyrus the Great. Many Jews have returned to Israel in the last 150 years from the Roman Exiling of the Jews nearly 2000 years ago. However, not all Jews have returned home after exile in both cases.

Dictionaries define "Judaism" as The monotheistic religion of the Jews, since the founding principle of Judaism was and is the belief in One ethical God. This was the teaching which was spread by Abraham, and has continued since then. From Judaism, belief in One God has spread through the Western world. This was unlike idolatry, which had tended to go hand in hand with cruel, licentious and excessive behavior, since the caprices which were narrated concerning the idols were adopted as an excuse to imitate those types of behavior.
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"I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation ... fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations" (John Adams, 2nd President of the United States).
"Certainly, the world without the Jews would have been a radically different place. Humanity might have eventually stumbled upon all the Jewish insights, but we cannot be sure. All the great conceptual discoveries of the human intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they had been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jews had this gift. To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both Divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of human person; of the individual conscience and of collective conscience, and social responsibility" (Paul Johnson, Christian historian, author of A History of the Jews and A History of Christianity).

It depended on what the person did, and when they did it. In Bible times, the Hebrews (later called the Jews) lived in communities governed by the codes of laws and rules of conduct that were established by Moses; many of these could be found in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). The Bible made distinctions between various types of wrongdoing, often translated as "sins," but not all of them were considered as equally serious, and the punishments for these transgressions varied. Some "sins" were considered relatively minor, especially those that were accidental: for instance, a person said something that came out all wrong and hurt another person's feelings, but it was not done intentionally. But in other cases, the wrongdoing was more serious, especially if it resulted in a person being injured or killed, or if property was stolen. The more serious the offense, the harsher the punishment could be.

The Ten Commandments forbade such grave sins as committing murder, committing adultery, or stealing; but it also forbade being envious of what another person had, or failing to show respect to one's parents; and it forbade the worship of other deities. The violations for breaking the Mosaic laws varied. In the case of minor transgressions, the emphasis was on repentance--on turning back to God, promising to obey His laws, and on trying to set things right with the person you wronged.

There were a number of ways to show you were sorry for wrongdoing, including humbling yourself before God, bringing sacrifices to the temple, and making amends to those your behavior had harmed. But in some cases, the punishment for a severe offense (murder for example) was that the wrongdoer would be put to death. (It should be noted that the phrase "an eye for an eye" has been widely misinterpreted as permission to inflict vengeance; but actually, it is a legal formula that refers to making sure the punishment is not out of proportion to the crime that was committed.)

While some Bible verses seem harsh to modern readers, this was an era without jails and without social workers and therapists. The writers of the Scriptures, while believing they were serving their God, a Deity who demanded ethical behavior, also understood that fear of a terrible punishment could be a powerful motivator in keeping people on the straight and narrow. For example, the verse that said a "stubborn child" should be stoned to death was clearly meant to scare recalcitrant children, since there are few if any examples of this penalty ever being carried out.

When the Jewish people were scattered, after the destruction of the second temple, there was no longer one central sacred place where rituals of repentance could occur. Gradually, a new set of rules and laws of conduct was compiled by various rabbis and sages-- it was called the Talmud, and it helped Jewish people continue to practice their religion by giving them guidance they could use in daily life. (Orthodox Jews still rely upon its teachings even in modern times.) However, by the time the Talmud was compiled, many Jews were living in lands where they were in the minority, as subjects of non-Jewish rulers. This meant that the religious laws of Bible times were often replaced in daily life by whatever the laws of the country in which Jewish people were living.

In modern times, Jewish people are citizens of countries all over the world, and follow the laws of those countries. For example, if an American Jew committed a crime, he or she would be judged by the laws of the state where the crime occurred, rather than by the laws of the Bible. But when it comes to following religious beliefs (such as keeping kosher or observing certain holy days), Jews do much the same as Muslims or Buddhists or Hindus or Christians would do-- they observe the laws of their religion in their home, their religious community, or their house of worship.

But like members of other faiths, not every Jewish person is religious nor does ever Jew follow all the customs or laws. In our modern world, we do not live under a theocracy, so there is no official punishment for failing to keep kosher, nor is there a penalty for not attending synagogue. However, in some of the most observant communities (ultra-Orthodox, especially), failing to observe these laws would be stigmatized, or the rabbi might chastise the person for not being sufficiently religious.

Hebrew had stone house because there wasnt much wood for houses.if u were poor u lived in a tent. if u were rich u lived in sundried mud bricks. if u wanted to u could live in a cave

Anti-Semitism in France has been vigorous and deadly. Much of French anti-Semitism has taken the form of direct attacks, not laws. However, here are a few examples from among many:

Following the Second Crusade (1147-49), Jews in certain cities were forced to pay a special tax every year. In Toulouse, Jewish communal representatives had to go to the church once a week to have their ears boxed, as a sign of Jewish guilt.

After he came to power, King Philip Augustus ordered all the Jews in his lands jailed and ordered payment of a ransom for their release. In 1182, he seized all Jewish property and banished the Jews from Paris.

In 1215, the Fourth Lateran Council ordered Jews to wear a badge in French Languedoc, Normandy and Provence.

In 1305, Phillip IV commanded that all Jews be imprisoned and seized all their property except the clothing they were wearing. He had 100,000 Jews expelled from France, letting them leave with only ones day's food.

Even the enlightened Napoleon was not free of anti-Jewish actions. In 1808 he had all debts to Jews severely reduced, which vastly increased poverty among the Jews. He also restricted where Jews could live.

In 1889, the Ligue Nationale Antisemitique de France created propaganda, riots and violent pogroms against local Jews.

On September 27, 1940 the so-called First Ordinance of the Nazi occupiers of France was issued.

That ordinance was followed by the anti-Semitic laws and acts of discrimination against Jews taken by the Vichy regime during World War II.

There is no evidence that the Ancient Hebrews used or made soap. The Ancient Egyptians invented a form of soap, but there's no mention of it in the Torah.

The Germans used Zyklon B for killing people in the concentration camps.

It was the compulsory sterilization program, based on the "Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring" of 1933. In regulated the enforced sterilization of the mentally handicapped, the blind and the physically deformed among others. The law resulted in 400,000 sterilizations. Although you might not expect it, the idea - and practice - of enforced sterilization of the mentally handicapped first came up in the US, but was discontinued there after a number of years for ethical reasons.

There's more than one answer. Saul and David were both appointed kings at the prophetic command of God to Samuel.

The Exodus is something for which we Jews remain eternally grateful to God. It is one of the reasons given for our observance of God's commands.

1) It was the fulfillment of one of God's promises to Abraham (see Genesis ch.15).

2) It demonstrated God's involvement in this world and in the workings of history.

3) It showed that God's covenant with the Forefathers was still in effect.

4) It was the main preparation for the Giving of the Torah at Sinai several weeks later.

5) It made the Israelites into a distinct nation.

6) In the Exodus, God did miracles for which we remain grateful to this day.

Elijah's role in Jewish history is that he was a prophet who made fire descend down from heaven. Feared for his lfe when threatened by jezebel.