Nearly 1.3 million people were deported to the camp and more than 1.1 million perished. Although Auschwitz had the highest death rate, it also had the highest survival rate of all the killing centers. Prosthetic legs and crutches are a part of a permanent exhibition in the Auschwitz Museum. O...
History and Main Beliefs of Jewish Religion / The Jews Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend. Judge not thy neighbor until thou art come into his place. (Jewish Proverbs)Introduction to JudaismJudaism is the religion, culture, ethics and law of the Jewish people....
As soon as the Jewish people were scattered among other nations, and thereby found the opportunity of drawing comparisons between other beliefs and their own, it was inevitable that they should be so impressed with the superiority of their faith as to look forward with perfect confidence to its...
Dani cannot fully understand Avi’s struggle, having never been in his position, but he hopes that he and Avi will be able to find a way to be together while Avi stays true to his beliefs. When faced with a contradiction between one’s religious beliefs and one’s modern reality, it c...
Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh, and explored in later texts such as the Talmud. Jews consider Judaism to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God developed with the Children of Israel - originally a group of tw...
The former of these leading parties was pre-eminently concerned with the maintenance of the status quo in politics, and in the main sceptical with regard to such prominent beliefs or expectations of the time as the existence of angels, the resurrection of the dead, the reference of the oral ...
Once Constantine established the doctrinal beliefs of his new Church, all those who did not accept the religion of the emperor were either put to death (see The Death Of The Religion Of Jesus), or run out of and banished from the empire. Thereafter, the most corrupted copies of the script...
As soon as the Jewish people were scattered among other nations, and thereby found the opportunity of drawing comparisons between other beliefs and their own, it was inevitable that they should be so impressed with the superiority of their faith as to look forward with perfect confidence to its...
0 years ago in the part of the world that today we call the Middle East. No one person ever "began"Judaism. The beliefs that became the Jewish faith came about gradually. However, some people were im ... Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, known as the patriarchs are both the physical and spi...
The point of the Holocaust of World War II was that it was one of many persecutions, hopefully the last and certainly the worst, that was targeted at a certain group and yet could not destroy the spirit and beliefs of a people who refused to let any earthly power destroy their religion...