This essay explores how Jews are using hip hop to express explicitly the position of Jewish identity within wider multicultural life. It examines how this expression varies in degree from artist to artist and how this surge in Jewish hip hop is connected to what some in the media are calling...
Jewish Ethics for the Twenty-First Century: Living in the Image of God. By Rabbi Byron L. Sherwin. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000. 203 pp. n.p. Rabbi Byron Sherwin offers us a unique and intriguing perspective investigating contemporary Jewish ethics in his new book Jewish Ethics...
You are here: Home The Pharisees - Jewish Leaders in the First Century AD. Name "Pharisee" is from a Greek word (pharisaios) taken from the Heb/Aramaic "Perisha" meaning "Separated one." In the time of Jesus the Pharisees were one of the three chief Jewish sects, the others were ...
Some house churches may have borrowed elements from synagogue services. All of the first Christians were Jewish and it is likely that in some synagogues all the members converted to Christianity. These communities would have continued with their familiar practices but modified them to encourage the ...
Before Nazism, a German institute cemented itself as gay liberation’s epicenter. For 40 years, activists have been searching for its legendary collection.
The view from the Mount of Olives was dominated by the gleaming, gold-embellished Temple which was located in the most holy spot in the Jewish world and really God's world. This was the Lord's earthly dwelling place, He mediated His throne here and raised up a people to perform rituals...
Jewish Women Philosophers of First-century Alexandria 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书 图书描述 The first-century ascetic Jewish philosophers known as the 'Therapeutae', described in Philo's treatise De Vita Contemplativa, have often been considered in comparison with early Christians, the Essenes, and ...
This study attempts to find out whether during the first half of the 20th century in Vilnius Jewish culture was a separate cultural space or an integral part of the city's cultural scene. The research is based on analysis of documents and periodical press in Lithua...
Jewish settlement in England can be traced as far back as the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066. The Jewish community outnumbered the Spanish and Portuguese communities in England by the 18th century. Many Jewish families in Eastern Europe moved to England to escape persecution and hardship bet...
Born in New York City to a Danish immigrant father and a Jewish mother from the Bronx, Johansson trudged through many minor roles in her early career before receiving notoriety for her depiction of Grace MacLean in "The Horse Whisperer." Since then, her career has skyrocketed, with the height...