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    Judaism - Wikipedia
  • Article on Judaism, the religion of the Jewish people based on principles and ethics embodied in the Bible (Tanakh) and the Talmud.
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    Judaism: Definition from Answers.com
  • Judaism n. The monotheistic religion of the Jews, tracing its origins to Abraham and having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in
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judaism???
What is judaism? What is the history of it? Who are the leaders? In what region is it? What is the population today? What are the practices and belifs? any other interesting things about judaism?
Judaism = Religion of the jews. Their "leader"? Moses. Their practices and beliefs? The Torah (First 5 books of the Bible).
Is Judaism any different thenbeing Jewish and if so, whatare the differences?
I'm doing a project on Israel and I've noticed there's Judaism and Jewish.. Are there differences, and if so, what are they?
There are seven tribes of Jews, from which all of today's Jews are descendents There are at least two major cultural groups: Ashkenazim and Sephardic (depending on where they migrated to into Europe) Additionally, there a Jews divided by where they live, Polish Jews, Israelis, New York Jews, etc Then there are the Jews who celebrate their culture in different ways, Orthodox, Reform, etc... Being a culture thats been around a VERY long time, there are now many different divisions. There are Jews born into the religion (orthodox) instead of converting like myself. They will not eat pork or allow pork products (pig heart transplants, etc) into their body. You will notice some wear the Yamakas (hats) and have trensels (those curly long locks on the sides of their heads) and long beards while others, do not. However, one thing remains the same, throughout history, part Jew, whole jew, orthodox jew, etc. They were always a scapegoat. Very unfortunate. I have been to Ramat Gan in Israel. Incredible city. A lot of war crimes, however. There was a bombings in Tel Aviv at a location that I was at two weeks PRIOR. Wow.
How does religious polity workin Judaism?
A few questions wrapped into one: 1. Is there any form of hierarchy in Judaism? Any final arbiter of doctrine? 2. Is there any sect/denomination of Judaism that has legal dominance in the state of Israel? 3. If the temple were to be rebuilt, WHO would be in charge of it? Would only members of a certain branch of Judaism be allowed to attend?
1. Hierarchy, in charge, final arbiter, in Judaism? Very funny. No, everyone is in charge. Rabbis are more studied but still are not authority figures in the way the other religions use. 2. Legally Israel is a secular democracy. Every religion has it's own self-rule there. The legal system is not Jewish. Within Judaism, Orthodox dominates the Jewish religious "courts". For a while it was two chief Rabbis (instead of one) but I think it's down to one now. 3. Jews would be in charge. Jewish branches or movements are more fluid between them than Christianity & regardless of internal disputes, are part of the same religion. I go to services of any of the branches & fit in fine. At any point in my life I could join a synogague from any of the branches. Not only would Jews be able to attend the Temple, but same as in Temple days, non-Jews would come to worship at the Temple. I dont' know that anyone would want to when it's finally rebuilt, but they could. We don't sit around waiting for the Temple to be rebuilt; it will happen when it does & meanwhile there's a lot to do in the here in now to improve the world. ============== Asher - You're thinking of for the law of return & converts only. Otherwise, orthodox jews can marry non-orthodox in Israel & the courts don't get involved in much else! For converts because reform & conversative use different standards, there's an issue. I would also think it wouldn't take years of discussion at all to decide who could attend. Any Jew could (& non-Jew). Orthodox would run the rituals since they'd be more knowledgable on that & Reform & Conservative wouldn't have a problem with it. There would be years of debate on the specifics of the rituals though :). ==================== DSM Your answer in no way reflects accurate knowledge of how Judaism operates which is clearly what the asker was asking for... rather than a bashing with non-Jewish taught misconceptions about Judaism. It's been your policy to run after Jewish questions & do this. That's called bigotry. To give clarity: 1. After 2000 years in disapora jewish beliefs were stunningly similar across groups from as wide as Europe & India, when they gathered in Israel. There's a religious concept in Judaism that topics should be debated to look for truths -- so the idea of authority truth is irrelevant in the religion, hence Amibivlant's answer. 2. If you read the other answers, atheist is obviously only the older political bashing answer that Israel was founded by secular Jews. Two problems, first a misunderstanding of secular & thinking that's atheist or similar to how the words used in the US. It means less observant vs. more observant is all. Second it's stuck in a political commentary rather than the reality of the country. 3. Your answer is just a bashing of Judaism has not having a valid way to relate to God as though Jewish prayer doesn't work because it's Jewish (rather than to the holy spirit, I've seen this completely my Xtians before) or Judaism can't exist without the Temple, or Elijah, a beautiful concept, has anything to do with any of this. Also, the lineage to Aaron is so well preserved that a genetic link to the levites & cohens has been found in 75% of Jewish men who say they are from the lineage.
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