Acts Chapter 15: The Ceremonial Law (The Annual Festivals, and their Relevance to the Christian Church.) The Council of Jerusalem Introduction The council of Jerusalem, which is recorded in Acts fifteen, is definitely an in depth research and deliberation into whether or not the ...

Prominent Religions in the East There are many difficult questions that people ask with the hope of explaining why the world is the way that it is. These types of questions are often explained by religion, a very powerful thing. Religion can be explained in a variety of ways, depending on whi...

Modern Orthodox Judaism A brief overview The philosophy of Judaism is as broad and diverse as its four thousand years would suggest. The past century and a half, however, has clearly been one of the most dramatic times in both Jewish history and Jewish thought. The emancipation of European Jewry...

For sixteen hundred years, the Jewish people have been persecuted and murdered by people who worship a Jewish man as their savior: the Christians. Why did Christian anti-Semitism, a seemingly illogical belief given that Jesus himself was a Jew, develop? How did it evolve, and why has it persiste...

Major Western Religions The three major Western religions that affect almost two billion people are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All three religions focus on a higher authority, known as God. This higher authority loves and guides people through religious teachings. Studying these religion...

Since the beginning of the Jewish religion, women have had what seems to be a marginalized role that encompasses almost every facet of life. In many cases within the body of Jewish texts, clear misogynist statements and commentary are made dealing with every aspect of what it means to be female. W...

The Evolution of the Haggadah The Haggadah has long been in development the since initial concept originated in the Bible. The purpose of the Haggadah is based on the biblical requirement that, "Thou shall tell thy son on that day, saying: It is because of that which the Lord did for me whe...

Those who were the destroyers thought of him as a god, those who were his victims thought of him as a demonic symbol. Hitler was and is an unforgettable figure for his undeniable intelligence, analytical annihilation, and religious reasoning. During that time many people felt an aspect of discrimina...

The history of the Jewish people is the story of their attempts, mostly unsuccessful, to live up to the high standards of the deceptively simple statements of the Shema. The beginning of the Hebrew prayer, known as the Shema, goes on to say that Adonai, God, is to be revered and worshiped with ever...

Understanding the sublime is one of the keys to understanding Judaism. The sublime infuses the writings of the Torah. The ancient writers wrote of the sublime and the sublime has colored the interpretations of the Holy Scriptures throughout history in Jewish thought. Heschel and other writers wrote ...

This research paper documents the triumphant cultural and political revitalization of a victimized Europe, while providing details on the specifics of the liberation and the life of "displaced persons" particularly Jews, in post-World War II. Never before has an event in history been as tragic and...

Throughout history, people struggled to understand the physical world around them. When the questions could not be answered by their contemporary science, they looked to the supernatural for explanations. Therefore, people's understanding of the natural world was directly effected by what they...