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Judaism: Encyclopedia - Judaism

Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. It is one of the first recorded monotheistic faiths and one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. The tenets and history of Judaism are the major part of the foundation of other Abrahamic religions, including Samaritanism, Christianity, and Islam. Over at least the last two thousand years, Judaism has not been monolithic in practice, and has not had any centralized authority or binding dogma. Despite this, Judaism in all its variations has remained tightly bound ...

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Judaism - Introduction

Judaism - Jewish denominations

Judaism - Jewish prayer and practice

Judaism - Community leadership

Judaism - Jewish religious history

Judaism - Judaism and other religions

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Judaism: New Age Spiritual Dictionary on Judaism

Judaism

Religion based on the belief that all people have a right to justice, purity, and truth which even the power of the king cannot erase

(See also: Judaism, Body Mind and Soul)

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Judaism: Encyclopedia II - Judaism - Judaism and other religions

Judaism - Christianity and Judaism. Main article: Judaism and Christianity See also: Judeo-Christian, Christianity and anti-Semitism, Jewish view of Jesus, Cultural and historical background of Jesus, and Christian-Jewish reconciliation Since the Holocaust, there has been much to note in the way of reconciliation between some Christian groups and the Jewish people; the article ...

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Judaism: Encyclopedia - Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is the stream of Judaism which adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmud ("The Oral Law") and later codified in the Shulkhan Arukh ("Code of Jewish Law"). It is governed by these works and the Rabbinical commentary of the last 1,000+ years. Orthodox Judaism is characterized by: The belief that the Torah (i.e. the Pentateuch) and its pertaining laws are "Divine": Transmitted by God to Moses who then wrote it down, and cannot be ...

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Orthodox Judaism - Beliefs about Jewish law and tradition

Orthodox Judaism - Orthodox organizations and groups

Judaism: Encyclopedia - Karaite Judaism

Karaite Judaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by reliance on the Tanakh as the sole scripture, and rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and the Talmud) as halakha (Legally Binding, i.e. required religious practice). The word "Karaite" comes from the Hebrew word קְרָאִים (Standard Hebrew Qəraʾim; Tiberian Hebrew Qərāʾîm), meaning "Readers (of Scripture)". This name was chosen by the adherents of Karaite Judaism to distingu ...

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Karaite Judaism - Karaite beliefs

Karaite Judaism - History of Karaism

Karaite Judaism - Karaite writings

Judaism: Encyclopedia - Reconstructionist Judaism

Reconstructionist Judaism is a movement of Judaism with a relatively liberal set of beliefs: an individual's personal autonomy should generally override traditional Jewish law and custom, yet also take into account communal consensus, modern culture is accepted, traditional rabbinic modes of study, as well as modern scholarship and critical text study, are both valid ways to learn about religious texts, non-fundamentalist methods of teaching about Jewish principles of faith are acceptable, and no Jew needs to accept all, or any, principles of faith, the Jews a ...

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Judaism: Encyclopedia - Liberal Judaism

Liberal Judaism is a term used by some communities worldwide for what is otherwise also known as Reform Judaism or Progressive Judaism. Liberal Judaism - Liberal Judaism in the UK. As well as the general sense above, the term 'Liberal Judaism' has a particular significance in the UK. For historical reasons in the UK, 'Liberal Judaism' exists as a separate identity from the United Kingdom's Movement for Reform Judaism. The Movement for Reform Judaism is associated with communitie ...

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Liberal Judaism - Liberal Judaism in the UK

Liberal Judaism - Organisations

Liberal Judaism - Links

Judaism: Encyclopedia - Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism can refer to (1) the largest denomination of Judaism in America and its sibling movements in other countries, (2) a branch of Judaism in the United Kingdom, and (3) the historical predecessor of the American movement that originated in 19th Century Germany. Contemporary Reform Judaism movements share most of the following principles: The autonomy of the individual in interpreting the Torah and Oral Law, as well as in deciding which observances one is thereby prescribed to follow, Applicabili ...

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Reform Judaism - 19th Century German Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism - Development of American Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism - Reform Judaism in Britain

Reform Judaism - Progressive Judaism in Israel

Reform Judaism - History

Judaism: Encyclopedia - Ablution in Judaism

Ablution in Judaism. This article refers to ceremonies of ritual purity performed by religious Jews. The origins for these rituals and customs are found in the Mishnah and Talmud, and have been codified in various codes of Jewish law and tradition, such as Maimonides's Mishneh Torah (12th century) and Joseph Karo's Shulkhan Arukh (16th century.) These customs are most commonly observed within Orthodox Judaism. Those within Conservative Judaism widely observe the riturals related to Netilat yadayim; using a mikvah ...

Judaism: Encyclopedia - Islam and Judaism

The historical interaction of Islam and Judaism began in the 7th century with the spread of Islam in the Arabian peninsula. Because both of these religions share a common origin in the Middle East, and because of the shared aspects between Judaism and Islam, as well as the influence of Muslim culture and philosophy on practitioners of Judaism within the Islamic world, there has been considerable and continued physical, theological, and political overlap between the two faiths in the subsequent 1,400 years. Islam and Juda ...

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Islam and Judaism - Early relationship

Islam and Judaism - Islamic view of the Torah

Islam and Judaism - Historical

Islam and Judaism - Interplay between Jewish and Islamic thought

Judaism: Encyclopedia - Conversion to Judaism

Conversion to Judaism (Hebrew גיור, giur, "conversion") is the religious conversion of a previously non-Jewish person to the Jewish religion. The procedure for conversion depends on the sponsoring denomination, and hinges on meeting the ritual and substantive requirements for such conversion. A convert to Judaism is referred to as a ger tzedek (Hebrew: "righteous proselyte" or "proselyte [of] righteousness") or simply ger ("stranger" or "proselyte"). Conversion to Judaism - History. Including:

Judaism: Encyclopedia - Messianic Judaism

Messianic Judaism is any of a group of loosely related religious movements, all claiming a connection with Judaism, and all of which consider Jesus to have been the Messiah. Messianic Judaism began in the 1800's, as Jewish converts to the Church of England began to organize into smaller groups. This was paralleled by a growth of missions to the Jewish people. By the 1860's, the first Messianic umbrella organization, the Hebrew Christian Alliance, had been formed through the Church of England ...

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Judaism: Encyclopedia - Anti-Judaism

Anti-Judaism is opposition to the Jewish religion (Judaism) and those who practice it. This oppositon may be of varying degrees of intensity — sometimes expressed in discrimination and hostility. Often the term is used as a euphemism for anti-Semitism. The definition of "antisemitism" in Merriam-Webster Dictionary patently includes anti-Judaism: "is hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group."[1] According to this definitio ...

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Anti-Judaism - Christian anti-Judaism

Anti-Judaism - History of Christian anti-Judaism

Anti-Judaism - Notes

Judaism: Encyclopedia - Hasidic Judaism

Hasidic Judaism (from the Hebrew: Chasidut חסידות, meaning "pious", from the Hebrew root word chesed חסד meaning "loving kindness") is a Haredi Jewish religious movement. Some refer to Hasidic Judaism as Hasidism, and the adjective Chasidic/Hasidic (or in Yiddish Chasidish חסידיש) applies. The movement originated in Eastern Europe (Belarus and Ukraine) in the 18th century. Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (1700–1760), also known as the Ba'al Shem Tov Including:

Hasidic Judaism - History

Hasidic Judaism - Religious practice and culture

Hasidic Judaism - Footnotes

Judaism: Encyclopedia - University of Judaism

The University of Judaism, informally known as the UJ, is a university with undergraduate, graduate, rabbinic, cantorial, and continuing education studies. Its Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies ordains rabbis mostly in the Conservative movement and is one of the major seminaries of rabbinic studies in the United States, as well as the only independent rabbinical seminary west of the Mississippi River. The UJ is located in Los Angeles, California, on Mulholland Drive in the Sepulveda Pass. University of Judaism - ...

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University of Judaism - Programs of study

Judaism: Encyclopedia - Crypto-Judaism

Crypto-Judaism is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; people who practice crypto-Judaism are referred to as "crypto-Jews". The term crypto-Jew is also used to describe descendants of Jews who still (generally secretly) maintain some Jewish traditions, often while adhering to other faiths, most commonly Catholicism. Crypto-Judaism - Europe. The many Marranos (in the Balearic Islands, Chuetas), who publicly professed Catholicism but privately adhered to Judaism du ...

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Crypto-Judaism - Europe

Crypto-Judaism - Chuetas

Judaism: Encyclopedia - Haredi Judaism

Haredi or Charedi Judaism, often also called ultra-Orthodox Judaism, is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. The term "ultra-Orthodox" is controversial, as it is often considered to be pejorative, and is rarely used by the Jews to whom it is applied; they generally prefer Haredi (חֲרֵדִי, a Hebrew term which is derived from Harada (fear, anxiety) and could be interperted as "one who trembles in awe of God"), Yeshivish ...

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Haredi Judaism - Practices and beliefs

Haredi Judaism - History

Haredi Judaism - Present day

Judaism: Encyclopedia - Modern Orthodox Judaism

Modern Orthodox Judaism (or Modern Orthodox, also known as Modern Orthodoxy and sometimes abbreviated as "MO") is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize traditional observance and values with the secular modern world. It is broadly defined as the effort to adapt Orthodox Judaism to modernity and to avoid the social and/or cultural isolation which livi ...