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Judaism Judaism began about 4000 years ago with the Hebrew people in the Middle East. Abraham, who was a Hebrew man, is considered the father of the Jewish faith because he promoted the main idea of the Jewish faith: that there is only one God. At the time a lot of people in the Middle East worshipped many gods. The Jewish tradition, Abraham founded which was later named the Jewish religion in the land of Israel, around 1800 BCE. The Torah says that Abraham came to know that there was only one

Emma Lazarus, a nineteenth century Jewish American poet, was born on July 22, 1849 in New York City. Her parents, Moses and Esther Nathan Lazarus, had seven children. She was the fourth of the seven to born, with five sisters and one brother. Emma was born into one of the oldest and most prestigious Hebrew families in New York. The Nathan Lazarus family was descended from the early Jewish settlers in America. By the time Emma was born, they had been established in Manhattan for four generations

Judaism began about 4000 years ago with the Hebrew people in the Middle East. Abraham, who was a Hebrew man, is considered the father of the Jewish faith because he promoted the main idea of the Jewish faith: that there is only one God. At the time a lot of people in the Middle East worshipped many gods. The Jewish tradition, Abraham founded which was later named the Jewish religion in the land of Israel, around 1800 BCE. The Torah says that Abraham came to know that there was only one God, and he

Jews and then there are True Torah Jews. Both believe in the same thing, but the way they carry it out is very different. The first question is, where did Zionism come from and how did it become popular? Zionism all started with a man name Theodore Herzl about one hundred years ago, and he got the great idea of starting a movement of taking the sacred True Torah Judaism and changing it a little bit. He wanted to start a branch of the religion and make it more secular, by not studying the Torah, and

On May 3, 1898, Goldie Mabotvitch, sometimes named Golda, was born into a Jewish family in Kiev, Russia (“Golda Meir”). Due to anti-Semitic persecution, her family immigrated to the United States and settled down in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1905 (Brittanica). In 1916, Goldie attended college at the Milwaukee Normal School; during her time in college, she became involved in Zionism, the concept that the Jewish people should have their own nation state, and later joined several Zionist clubs (“Golda

During World War II, millions of Jews fled from Germany to escape the brutality of Adolf Hitler. A Zionist movement established that all Jewish refugees were to flee to Palestine, a concept founded by The Jewish State, by Dr. Theodore Herzl, in order to unite all Jews in one holy state. The British were convinced in 1917 by Chaim Weizmann that all Jews needed their own territory in Palestine, and in the early 1920s, the British were given a mandate over Palestine by the League of Nations. Palestinians

Cabinet session which approved the Balfour Declaration on October 31, 1917. That was also the meaning originally given to this phrase by the program committee which drafted the Basel Program at the first Zionist Congress in August 1897 and by Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist Organization. The word “home” as used in the Balfour Declaration was simply the synonym for a state originally adopted by the Zionist Organization when the territory of Palestine was subject to the rule of the Ottoman Empire

Moses became in-charge of the laws and this is where the Ten Commandments came from. By 1897 the Jewish people had created a movement called Zionism. Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people will one day have their own land called Israel. Theodor Herzl started this movement for the Jews to have a home where they were free form

Israel - The Presidential Brief The Current Situation In Israel And Palestine      Israel is in a situation unlike any other country around the world. Israel has been fighting for its survival since it became a country in 1948. It is surrounded by hostile nations that want to destroy or at least diminish it. There is tremendous tension between the Palestine Liberation Members and Israeli officials and citizens. There have been peaceful rallies and bloody bus bombings. People

The Importance of Holocaust In the Establishment of Israel The holocaust seems to be a major reason in the establishment of the state of Israel. The state of Israel was created in May 1948; the Jews finally had a homeland of their own. There were a variety of long-term causes such as the Balfour Declaration, Zionist movement and short-term causes such as the holocaust and the influence of the USA. The area, which is now called Israel, was part of Palestine; it was