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Matzah is unleavened bread. Matzah crackers are cracker sized pieces of matzah.
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They both believe God is the one true God and the Christians use the same scriptures as the Hebrews except the Christians also...
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It is to commemorate their exodus from Egypt.
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Yes because he said on the 1 minute hot seat that Hanuka was his favorite holiday.
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A synagogue (as called a shul) is a place for communal prayer. Jew's pray three time a day every day. In smaller communities only...
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Jewish and Christian AnswerTradition holds that Abraham founded Judaism around 2000 BCE when he renounced idol worship,...
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There is no prohibition against eating chicken eggs in Jewish law. In fact, eggs are considered 'pareve'. Pareve means that eggs...
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No It can not be and all these relegions are against incest.
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Yes. People sitting at the table talk to each other.
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When God told them to in Leviticus 11.
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Israel was led by various Judges before being ruled by kings like other nations.
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"Yahd" is a Hebrew word. Its English equivalent is "hand".
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Ladino, a combination of Hebrew and Spanish.
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Passover is not a festival. It's a feast, where people wear nice attractive clothes.
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Just as in every area of life and tradition, modern people are fixing up, decorating, tweaking, rehabbing, making over,...
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It will probably depend on the sentence, but in general...שום דבר חוץ מ־ (shoom davar khootz me-)
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It's called a huppah. It symbolizes intimacy and privacy for the new bride and groom. This custom is hundreds of years old.
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Technically no, since a vicar is a Christian spiritual leader whereas a rabbi is Jewish. However, a rabbi can be a bit like a...
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There is no religious word for a Jewish wedding
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The Ancient Jewish Wedding Feast was 7 days long.
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Yes, a Jewish boy is a bar mitzvah the day he turns 13. Not all Jewish boys have a big ceremony to celebrate this event in their...
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Hadassah is her Jewish name, she was re-named Esther, while her previous generation was taken, into captivity. Just like In...
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Each of the holidays has a particular focus that makes their celebration different from the others in some respect. To learn...
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It means to ward off the evil eye but for this to actually happen it has to bewool dyed as red and around your left wrist. The...
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women were considered as property through much of the Old Testament. Jesus later preached the equal status and worth of women....
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No, he was born in Germany but moved to the US and became an American citizen.
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Note: I won't change the following answers, but the truth is that the Jews are not against the Muslims. There is nothing in the...
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We never left G-d. The Book of Deuteronomy tells us there will be no further revelations, so we are doing precisely what G-d told...
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No, the day for the Sabbath is set in the 10 commandments as Saturday.
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Judaism came first. Christianity did not come until Jesus of Nazareth declared himself the messiah. The difference between the...
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The the correct name is the Western Wall, or Kotel in Hebrew. The term "Wailing Wall" is an insult. You can put prayers on...
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Lots of places: The Western Wall, the Old City, synagogues, archaeological sites, museums, graves of famous people, and many...
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Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah in various ways including: Festive meals, including eating 'new fruits', Apples dipped in Honey,...
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Most Orthodox Jews condemn homosexuality, but even those that do see it as not as serious a crime as violating Shabbat. See...
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1. They were extremely self-sufficient to the point of denying God's involvement in everyday life; 2. They denied any...
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A seder, or meal ritual is conducted around the dinner table. Each participant reads from a booklet called a "haggadah" which...
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Jewish people do not recognise Ramadan (which is a Muslim celebration) as a specific time of worship, and dress as they otherwise...
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Jerusalem is a sacred place for Jews (as well as Christians and Muslims).
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YES! eric steckel is jewish...well the singer is anyways
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No. Churches, synagogues and mosques are called "places of worship".
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they get older and become adults???????
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He looks Jewish. He stated that he is spiritual. He is tolerant of other religions I will tell you that. He was even encouraging...
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Tradition holds that Judaism began with Abraham in the land of Israel, around the Year 2000 BCE. There is archaealogical evidence...
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Kippah (כיפה) means dome or small hill. It is also the word for the head covering worn by Jews, sometimes tanslated as...
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Yes there is such a thing as a Jewish Mexican, they're sometimes referred to as Jexicans.
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Abraham is the person that God created the nation of Israel from. He came to Abraham (known then as Abram) and told him to leave...
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The Talmud is the discussion and elaboration on what is in the Torah. It is ancient Jewish scholars trying to make sense of the...
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Chodesh Tov means "have a good month" and is the traditional greeting used on Rosh Chodesh.
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as of 2011, it is 5,772 years, but this is only a traditional number. Most Jews recognize that the Earth is more than 4.6 billion...
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There is no difference. Zionism, which is the Jewish desire for a homeland in Israel, is a core aspect of Judaism.
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The 4 glasses of red wine that are drunk during the seder symbolise HaShem's four statements of redemption in the Torah: 1. "I...
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They worship by teaching and reading of the Hebrew Scriptures.
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no, you can never come back to earth to become zombies
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The ark (where the Torah is traditionally kept) in a synagogue is always positioned in such a way that worshippers face east,...
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A Cantor Sings in the worship services in a Synagogue. It's a Jewish person who worships and leads the singing in a synagogue. I...
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Judaism is the oldest between the two - Jesus and his disciples were Jews and followed the rituals of that religion. For example,...
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The terms "AHLT", "AHL-tehr", "AHL-teh" literally translate as "old", "old man", "old woman", but also convey the connotation of...
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"BAH-ahl koh-REH" (בעל קורא) ... literally "master of reading" A female Torah reader would be called ba'alat koh-reh...
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Are you asking should a Jew who has converted to Catholicism go to mass? Isn't that a requirement of the Catholic church? If you...
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Jesus was described in the Bible as a Jew from Galilee, a province north of Judea and Samaria. Jesus would have spoken Aramaic,...
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Hasidim do not wear white tights.
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On the Chag and Shabbat days of Passover Jews are Biblically prohibited from writing. During the Chol-HaMo'ed intermediary days...
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Abraham, being the forebear of the Israelites, and the Israelites were the descendants of Jacob (renamed: Israel), the grandson...
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A good deal of it is contained in the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) and the Talmud. Non-religious sources such as Josephus have...
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In 2010, Yom Kippur is celebrated from sunset, September 27 to nightfall, September 28.
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No. Bigots, racists and uneducated fools, ignorant of history, are.
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The same? None. But, there are similar religions (by similar, I mean also believe in only one God): Christianity, Islam
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Orthodox According to a strict reading of Torah and subsequent writings, yes, whether or not one is in a house of worship. Many...
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The Jews (Yehudi).... but it depends during what time
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Prayer at fixed times didn't come into existence until after the destruction of the 2nd Temple in the year 70 CE. In the Bible,...
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There is no such language as Jewish.If you mean Hebrew, then it is:אתה בן אדם נחמד (ah-TAH ben ah-DAHM nekh-MAHD)
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There are different groups of Orthodox Jews. They all wear different types of hats.
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Hannukah is celebrated to remember the miracle that took place thousands of years ago when the Maccabees, a Jewish resistance...
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ברוך אתה ה אלוקינו מלך העולם אשר קדשנו במצותיו וציונו להתעתף בציציתBaruch...
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Nobody knows the exact date, but tradition holds that it was sometime between 1700 BCE to 1300 BCE.
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The Bible = ha-Tanakh (תנך)
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Most Jews live in Israel, followed by North America. But Jews live in almost every country of the world.
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In fact, the difference between the Biblical and the Quranic attitude towards the female sex starts as soon as a female is born....
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Jewish laws and regulations concerning women during menstruation are extremely restrictive. The Old Testament considers any...
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There is no such thing as a wailing wall. This is a misnomer imposed by non-Jewish people who misunderstood the dinstinctive...
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Anything depends on the occasion
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EliYahu(אליהו in Hebrew) means my Elohim is Yahu. Elohim in the English bibles is translated as God most of the times it is...
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The Islamic calendar is lunar only, which means it is based on the phases of the moon. It is 354-355 days long. The Jewish...
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According to prevailing opinions in Judaism today, the choice of whether or not to engage in oral sex is considered a personal...
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The answer is Recontructionists :)
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Yes, but he is more of a cultural Jew than a religious Jew.
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There is no such language as Jewish,If you mean Hebrew, it is מארק (pronounced the same as in English).
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Religiously observant Jews worship 3 times a day, every day and four times on Saturday. The day of rest is called Shabbat and...
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In Judaism, there is no one single most important person. Judaism has had many thousands (if not millions) of Rabbis, sages,...
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Since the time of Moses, it was simply called Torah. Later, it became known as Judaism.
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