History of Judaism

Jews didn't all come here; they stayed in Europe but in places that stayed free. The answer to your question is the Nazis wanted to kill them. Hitler hated the Jewish people and put them in concentration camps where they were ultimately tortured to death. Lack of food and all kinds of awful things killed millions of Jewish men, women, and children.

Yes the United Nations has intervened in the Israeli - Arab conflicts. The most recent time several years ago when the UN authorized placing French "observers" in southern Lebanon to make sure no missiles could be fired into Israel.

This action failed as missiles were launched into Israel from southern Lebanon. The result was an invasion of Lebanon by Israel. Also Israel launched air attacks on Beirut.

Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) was a British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic (1907-09, 1914-17, 1921-22), during which the South Magnetic Pole was located in 1909.

Moses was an Israelite, a great-great grandson of Jacob. He was born 245 years after the death of Abraham. The time when Moses was born was when the Pharaoh ordered his people to kill all Jewish male infants because he (Pharaoh) was afraid that the Israelites would become too strong for him (Exodus ch.1-2). Moses' mother didn't want him to die. So she made a basket for him and put him in it to float in the Nile reeds. He was found by the Pharaoh's daughter, who took pity on him (Exodus ch.2) and raised him as her own son. He was forced to flee after killing a cruel Egyptian taskmaster, and went to Midian, where he wedded the daughter of Jethro. He eventually achieved the highest level of prophecy (Deuteronomy ch.34) and was called upon by God (Exodus ch.3). He brought the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery (Exodus ch.12). He received the Torah from God (Exodus 24:12) and later recorded it in writing (Deuteronomy 31:24). He went up on Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights (Deuteronomy ch.9-10) and brought down the Two Stone Tablets with the Ten Commandments (Exodus 31:18). He brought the Israelites into the covenant with God (Exodus ch.19 and ch.24), and he oversaw the building of the Tabernacle (Exodus ch.35-40). He was the humblest of men and the greatest of prophets (Numbers ch.12).

In the Netherlands, Jews were required to wear the yellow star by the Nazi-dominated government there as of May 2, 1942.

For purposes of clarification: An earlier equivalent decree applicable to Germany (including Austria and the absorbed Czech areas) came into effect on September 19, 1941.

The major event preceding the Babylonian captivity was the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Jewish holy temple in the city.

Russian Jews have been moving to Israel since the late 1800s early 1900s since before the Soviet Union was around and before Israel was even a country. But in mass, Russian Jews moved to Israel in the 1970s and late 1980s when the Soviet Union opened up its boarders to Jews wishing to reunite with family in Israel. After the fall of the Soviet Union many Jews moved to Israel as well, but on a slightly smaller scale at that point.

There were Jewish communities throughout the Galilee (Israel); Rome, Bari, Otrento, Lucca (Italy); Cyrenaica (Libya); Alexandria (Egypt); Athens (Greece); Carthage, Antioch; Marseilles (Gaul); Sicily; Cyprus; Tyre, Sidon; Spain; Rhodes; Turkey, and more.

This was in the Temple of Jerusalem. The Holy of Holies was the innermost room of the Temple that contained, among other things, the Ark of the Covenant of the Israelites. It was in this room that the Jews believed God dwelt and consequently only the high priest was able to enter this room, and then only on a special day once a year. The room was separated from the rest of the temple roooms by a long, heavy curtain, woven in one piece, that symbolised the division between God and humans. At the death of Christ, the gospel writers record that there was an earthquake and the curtain of this temple was torn in two from top to bottom - a very symbolic event for the Jews as this symbolised that at Jesus' death and his salvation for us all, the curtain separating man from God was no longer there - and that the relationship between humans and God was restored.

Jack Dreyfus was born on August 28, 1913 and died on March 27, 2009. Jack Dreyfus would have been 95 years old at the time of death or 101 years old today.

This is difficult question, as "Jew" is a tribal/racial group, a socio-political group, and a religious group.

What we currently would label the "Abrahamic" Jews (that is, followers of the Jewish religion as defined by Abraham, and a member of the "original" Jewish tribes) are mostly descendants of one of a multitude of small tribes in the Trans-Jordan area (modern Jordan, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, and Eqypt). Abraham probably lived sometime in the early second millennium BCE (likely 1800-1600 BCE), and the local tribe most associated with the beginnings of Judaism are the Israelites, who lived in the area of modern-day Greater Israel around 1100-1600 BCE.

She was a Catholic.

1) The route of Abraham from Ur to Harran and Canaan.

2) The route of Abraham to Egypt and back.

3) The route of Jacob to Harran and back.

4) The route of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan.

The first and third of the above, followed the curve of the Fertile crescent, skirting north of the Syrian Desert.

Abraham's route to Egypt could have followed the coast or the Jordan valley.

The route of the Israelites was a convoluted one.

Zionists did not play any part in the Holocaust.

Jews teach about war that you must not be cruel and no deaths however there are different wars called milchemet hashem where everything must be destroyed including all spoils not one spoil can be taken as was the case with the amaleikits

They worshiped only One God.

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The Hebrews were different in that their religion rejected idolatry. Abraham worshiped "the Lord God of Heaven and Earth" (Genesis 14:22 and 24:3) and complained about the Philistines' lack of fear of God (Genesis 20:11).

Zionism at that point in history was a primarily secular movement and it still is today (although less so). Religious Zionism was in its infancy in 1948 and did not really pick up until the mid-1950s and 1960s. (The Religious Zionist movement grew much more after the Six-Day War.)

There were a number of Zionists at the time of the Establishment of the State of Israel who would have been happy with a Jewish country anywhere, like Herzl (who died before this point). However, most Zionists (even though they were Secular Jews) felt that there was a Jewish Spiritual Connection with the Land of Israel and were able to increase immigration to the British Mandate of Palestine based on this connection and history. Most Secular Jews would not have considered this to be a religious connection (such as Catholics would say about the Vatican) but as a historical connection (such as German-Americans would say about Germany). Ahad Ha'am (a prominent Zionist) represented the view that Jewish expression made the most sense and the most inspiration from the place that the Jews came from.

Sonderkommando literally means special squad/detachment. The sonderkommando were detachments sent out to execute Jews in the occupied Soviet Union.

Jewish Sonderkommando is the term that we give special squads that are know by many other names. Their official title in documents in Auschwitz is 'stokers', apt as their main duty was to burn corpses, mainly in the krematoria, but also (in two separate incidents) in mass cremation pits.

The role of the Jewish Sonderkommand was arguably the worst fate that could befall a Jewish inmate, so bad that many chose death rather than join, many others chose death in the first few days of their work. It is a myth (unfortunately spread because of the movies) that the Jewish Sonderkommando would be executed after a certain amount of time. Fortunately we have the testimony of one man who survived from the begining.

As well as being responsible for cremation, jobs that the SK had to do (though no one did all of the jobs) include:

- disposal of the ashes from the cremation.

- keeping new arrivals calm whilst escorting them to the gas chambers.

- cleaning out the train carriages (including the dead).

- taking the corpses from the gas chambers to the ovens.

- cutting the hair and taking gold teath from the corpses.

- searching the body cavities of the corpses.

- washing and re-painting the corpses.

- collecting and surrendering gold and valuables discovered and left behind.

- tailoring clothes (mainly for the guards).

They also had standard duties like keeping their barracks clean and fetching standard food (they were not allowed to interact with the general population).

They did have rewards also, these include:

- being able to chose and wear better clothing (claimed from the new arrivals), they only had to sew a yellow stripe on the back.

- though officially they were not supposed to take food, they did take food from the new arrivals.

- they generally had one of their own as their kapo.

When the new krematoria were built in Birkenau conditions improved for them, but at the start they were kept in a prison cell, they had to work at night and they had to undress the gassed victims, as the Germans had not realised yet that it was easier for the victims to undress themselves.

The Babylonian took the Jews captive, destroyed the temple and plundered the temple of all the gold and silver. Set fire to the city and the Jews were held slaves till king Cyrus released them.

As shown by DNA studies, all Jewish communities come from the Middle East originally. Later, during the Middle Ages the Sephardim were the Jewish communities in the Mediterranean area (Spain, North Africa) and points east of it, while the Ashkenazim were to the north in France, Germany, Russia and Eastern Europe. This variety of locales has led to some differences in customs, but not in the Torah-laws themselves.
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Ruth, the prime example of a righteous convert, is the inspiration for much of Jewish Law concerning conversion. She was also the ancestress of King David and his dynasty (Ruth ch.4).