To Have Fate Hold You "...I realized I didn't have my prisoner's cap. Any prisoner at morning roll call without his cap was shot ." What would it be like if your life depended on something as simple as whether or not your hat was in your possession? To have a simple twist ...

Think about what life would be like if you had to wake up every morning wondering if you were going to live to see tomorrow, under Hitler's control people of all ages feared of bring murdered. When you look at people today many laugh, smile and play. But under the persecution and terror of ...

Even the most horrific events, like the Holocaust, teach a lesson or two and present a challenge to meet adversity eye to eye. When it comes to tragedy, the most important thing to concentrate on is the lesson this particular disaster presents. The most significant paradigm of the Holocaust is tha...

Of the three Abrahamic faiths, Judaism is the oldest faith from which the remaining two take root. Judaism, in its present day modern manifestation, recognizes the prophet Abraham as its ruler and founder, although it is clear that Abraham is but a mere descendant of a long line of prophets before a...

Since the birth of Christ, the relationship between Jews and Christians and the state has radically shifted from one end of the spectrum to the other. Since its inception, Christianity had been the religion coping with intolerance from the Jews and the state, yet as time progressed the attitude towa...

"Dead Language" After graduating from high school in Dnepropetrovsk , Ukraine with straight A's, a little girl went to college in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a medical doctor. In Ukraine, doctors do not make a lot of money, drive...

Introduction Paradise, a term meaning a place or condition of beauty or happiness, is a good term to describe the times when the Jews of Iran were prospering. During the sixth century B.C.E., King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conquered Judea and exiled the Jews to surrounding regions. This marked th...

Gentleman's Agreement Philip Greenwood is a magazine reporter that is offered a job in New York to publish a series on anti-Semitism. Greenwood is having a hard time finding an angle approaching the Hebrew religion. After several nights of no leads he decides to write his good friend from...

"Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations" said Walt Whitman (Lee). The United States of America, now the most powerful nation in the world, was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, colonized by 1700, freed from British rule in 1776, split in civil war in 1860, ...

The holocaust was a terrible time period where millions of Jewish people were man slaughtered. Economic and political conditions in Germany between 1918 and 1933 played a major role in the creation of a climate that made Nazism appeal to the German population. There was widespread unemployment. The ...

School Ties, a movie released in 1992, is set in the 1940's – 1950's in America. It's based around a protestant based school called St Matthews, and throughout the movie several events occur which raise the theme of religious hatred. The main characters involved in the film ...

Sheila Chamovitz, developer of Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust, wanted to capture the essence of children during the holocaust during World War II. Since there are very few survivors still alive today she wanted to get their stories on paper so that generations to come w...

Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a very dark novel. It is about the horrific events of the holocaust during world war two, as seen through the eyes of a young Jewish boy. Living through the horrifying experiences in the German concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie sees his family, friends a...

Status of Jewish Women in the Garment Industry Socio-economic, religious and political ideologies both work together to sculpt and guide the experiences which Jewish women have had in Canadian society. In order to fully be able to understand the status of Jewish women upon arrival into Canada, on...

The Celebration of Chanukah The candle light flickered in Dorothy Abramawitz's eyes. In her tiny, pudgy right hand she held the shammus, the host candle, and burned the wick until the flame was glowing brightly. While she began to light the first candle on the menorah, she heard her mother...

Subject: World History (But it applies to much more) Title: "Power Comes From the Barrel of a Gun" - took the opposing view "Would you respect me, If I didn't have this gun? 'Cause without it, I don't get it, And that's why I carry one." -Phil Collins Power. A wo...

The motto on the Great Seal of the United States is "novus ordo seclorum"--a new order of the ages. The revolutionary nature of America was particularly true for Jews. For thousands of years they had lived in states in Europe and the Arab countries in which anti-Semitism was actively promoted or t...

Today and forever in the future we will look back and reflect on the past, the good experiences, the bad experiences. However, the bad experiences always seem to be the most remembered. This is because the bad experiences the world has suffered have been horrific in many cases and have ultimately ch...

The Zealots were Jewish revolutionaries in the first century Judaea, whose religious zeal lead them to fight to the death against Roman domination, and to kill or persecute Jews who collaborated with the Romans. Zealots fought their way to freedom from enslavement, by not giving up the battle (Has...

Throughout history, there have been wars and conflicts fought in the name of righteousness and good. In many cases, the hostilities were deemed "holy wars," being, supposedly, fought in the name of Christ, Allah, Yahweh, or whatever deity the people worshipped. While blood was being she...

Title: "Power Comes From the Barrel of a Gun" - took the opposing view "Would you respect me, If I didn't have this gun? 'Cause without it, I don't get it, And that's why I carry one." -Phi...