The Need For Peace in the Middle East The quest for peace in the Middle East has been going on for decades. It all started in 1948 when Israel declared its independence and fought Arab nations to secure it. However, the Arabs were left unsatisfied while the Israelis wanted more control over...

Theodor Herzl and ZionismOne of the most important influences in the movement that led to the creation of the state of Israel was Jewish writer and journalist Theodor Herzl. He was born on May 2, 1860 in Budapest, Hungary. Herzl studied law in Vienna, but later on went into a literary career. Th...

The Sabbath day is on the seventh day of the week in the Jewish calendar. The Sabbath begins around sunset Friday night and ends around nightfall Saturday night. In some Western languages the word for Saturday means The Sabbath, such as El Sabado in Spanish. The Sabbath celebrates the day G-d rested...

Elie Wiesel is a very devout, young boy living in Sighet at the beginning of the war. He along with the rest of the Jews refuses to believe that anything so bad as the concentration camps could happen to them. However, on Passover, the persecution of the Jews begins. At first, they are only forb...

Mending wall is a poem written by Robert Frost. The poem is about the building of a wall between two neighbors. Both neighbors are dominant over the other. Both neighbors do not agree with each other and form a boundary, this wall. "Good fences make good neighbors." This suggests that this...

During the twentieth century, conclusions of wars created the conditions for subsequent wars. Whether it was the conquered or the conqueror, few ever remain content past an initial truce. Two examples of this can be found in the events that lead up to WWII and the constant conflict in the Middle Eas...

The City of God Catholic World View Jesus was born around 4 to 8 A.D. For the first thirty years of his life we know close to nothing about his life, except for the simple fact that his occupation was a carpenter. Jesus was very much like Socrates in the sense that he himself never wrote any...

WHO IS ENTITLED TO THE LAND? In this paper, I will discuss the conflict that has occurred between the Palestinian Arabs and the Jews, it has been in existence since the 20th century. Although both groups have religious differences, this is not the essential cause of the conflict. The strugg...

Imagine walking to a bus stop with some friends to go shopping. On a bench sits a bag of candy. You reach for it, to take it or possibly just to move it, and the next thing you know you're surrounded by white coats and blurry faces. You find out your two best friends and dead and you're mi...

WEEK 2 „X Balfour Doctrine of 1917- British government¡s support of a creation of a Jewish state in Palestine „X After WWI, Jewish immigration increased along with violence between the Jewish and Arab communities „X Britain attempted to slow the immigration, but was met with i...

The stories of the Yahwist and the Elohist have many similarities as well as differences. The main reason why they are this way is because they each have their own separate accounts of Yahweh. They are however linked together by the "Older Federation Story." In this essay I will attempt to compar...

Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world. It began in what is now called the Middle East. Abraham, the Patriarch of the Hebrews, founded the religion in the 20th Century BC. Jews are considered to be the descendents of Abraham and his sons Jacob and Isaac. Hebrew families moved to Eg...

ISRAELI HISTORYThe country of Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E.. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 B.C.E., the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years. The land of Jerusalem is of great importance to the Israel...

Christianity and the Judaic ReligionSpecific Purpose: To inform my audience of Christianity from the framework of JudaismCentral Idea: Christianity, or the belief in Jesus Christ, is founded in the Jewish heritage.IntroductionI. Did you know that Jesus came as King on the exact day foretold almost 5...

"Terror"What is a terrorist? Well the denotation of this word is as follows, somebody who uses violence or the threat of violence, especially bombing, and assassination, to intimidate, often for there own purpose. By this definition, government personals are not excluded from being a "terrorist" or ...

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...