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Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Yom Ha'atzma'ut

Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Zionism · Timeline ·Aliyah · Herzl Balfour · Mandate · 1947 UN Plan Independence · Austerity · Ma'abarot Lavon Affair · Eichmann Trial 1948 War · 1949 Armistice · Suez War Six-Day War · Attrition War Yom Kippur War · Lebanon War Peace treaties with: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan Timeline · Peace process · Peace camp 1st Intifada ...

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Yom Ha'atzma'ut - New Israeli/Jewish holidays

Yom Ha'atzma'ut - External link

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Yom Hazikaron

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Yom Hazikaron - Yom Hazikaron in the Gregorian calendar

Yom Hazikaron - External link

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - ZAKA

ZAKA זק"א - איתור חילוץ והצלה - חסד של אמת (an abbreviation for "Identifying Victims of Disaster" (in Hebrew: Zihuy Korbanot Asson)), is a voluntary community emergency response team in the State of Israel, officially recognized by the government. The organization was founded in 1989 by Yehuda Meshi Zahav and Rabbi Moshe Aizenbach. Members of ZAKA, most of whom are Orthodox Jews, assist ambulance crews, identify the victims of terrorism, road accidents and other disasters, and where neces ...

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ZAKA - Early history

ZAKA - Growing public recognition

ZAKA - Recent history

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Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Chaim Joseph David Azulai

Rabbi Chaim Joseph David ben Isaac Zerachia Azulai (1724, 21 March 1807), commonly known as the Chida (by the acronym of his name), was a rabbinical scholar and a noted bibliophile, who pioneered the history of Jewish religious writings. Chaim Joseph David Azulai - Biography. He was born in Jerusalem, where he received his education from some local prominent scholars, including Chaim ibn Attar (the Or ha-Chaim). At an early age he showed proficiency in Talmud, Kabbalah and Jewish histor ...

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Chaim Joseph David Azulai - Biography

Chaim Joseph David Azulai - His works

Chaim Joseph David Azulai - External link

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Yohanan ben Zakkai

Yohanan ben Zakkai was a Jewish sage of the first century of the common era, and a primary contributor to the core text of rabbinic Judaism, the Mishnah. He was an important sage in the era of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and after the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70 re-established the Sanhedrin in Jamnia (Jabneh/Javneh) during a time of consolidation that in the modern scholarly discussion is often, but arguably mistakenly, referred to as "The Council of Jamnia". The Mishnah offers no information on his birth or fam ...

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Yerida

Yerida (Hebrew: ירידה Translit.: yerida Translated: descent) is the term widely used to mean emigration by Jews and Israelis from the Land of Israel -- and since its establishment in 1948 -- the State of Israel. The opposite action, immigration by Jews to Israel, is called Aliyah ("ascent"). Emigrants from Israel are known as yordim ("those who go down [from Israel]"). Immigrants to Israel are known as ...

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Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Western Wall

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Western Wall - History

Western Wall - Eyewitness accounts of Roman actions

Western Wall - Venerated by the Jews

Western Wall - Restricted holy areas

Western Wall - During subsequent occupations

Western Wall - The Wall as viewed by Muslims

Western Wall - Ottoman control

Western Wall - Jordanian rule

Western Wall - Under the British

Western Wall - Israel since 1967

Western Wall - Recent damage to plaza

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi

Judah Ha-Levi, also Yehudah Halevi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi(Hebrew רבי יהודה הלוי) (c.1085-1141 CE) was a Jewish Spanish philosopher and poet. He was born at Toledo, southern Castile. Yehuda Halevi - Youth. As a youth Ha-Levi lived a life of pleasure. He mixed pleasure with learning. It is possible that Judah's father, Samuel "the Castilian," sent Judah, who was his only son, to Lucena to be educated in the various branches of Jewish learning at the school of Isaac Alfasi. On th ...

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Yehuda Halevi - Youth

Yehuda Halevi - Journey to the Holy Land

Yehuda Halevi - His work

Yehuda Halevi - Secular poetry

Yehuda Halevi - Love songs

Yehuda Halevi - Religious poetry

Yehuda Halevi - Patriotism

Yehuda Halevi - Analysis of his poetry

Yehuda Halevi - Synagogal poetry

Yehuda Halevi - As a philosopher

Yehuda Halevi - Ha-Levi’s legacy

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Yellow badge

A yellow badge, also referred to as a Jewish badge, is a mandatory mark or a piece of cloth of specific geometric shape, worn on the outer garment in order to distinguish a person of certain religion or ethnicity in public. It is traditionally associated with the persecution of Jews. In some countries a badge was accompanied or replaced by identifying garb or hat. In the Middle Ages clothes worn by differen ...

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Yellow badge - Timeline

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Bukharan Jews

Bukharan Jews (Bukhoran Jews, Bukharian Jews) is a blanket term for Jews from the Central Asia speaking a dialect of Tajik language. They got their name from the Uzbek city of Bukhara, which once had a large community. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the vast majority have moved to the United States or to Israel. Bukharan Jews - Background. The Bukharan Jews trace their ancestry to Israelites who never came back from the Babylonian captivity after exile in the 7th century BCE. In Centr ...

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Bukharan Jews - Background

Bukharan Jews - Name and language

Bukharan Jews - History

Bukharan Jews - Under the Soviet rule

Bukharan Jews - After 1991

Bukharan Jews - Culture

Bukharan Jews - Cuisine

Bukharan Jews - Music

Bukharan Jews - Notable Bukharan Jews

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Zionism and racism

Zionism maintains that the Jewish people constitute a nation and are entitled to a national homeland. Its focus is on governing the Land of Israel or Zion (a synecdoche for the Land of Israel). Jewish people have historically understood themselves to be part of a nation distinct from the non-Jewish nations. Like most nations, offspring of members are likewise considered members. However, common ancestry is not required and new members are admitted based upon prescribed criteria. None of the criteria incl ...

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Zionism and racism - History

Zionism and racism - The demographic change

Zionism and racism - Zionism and Israel

Zionism and racism - Discrimination

Zionism and racism - Viewed as anti-Semitism

Zionism and racism - Soviet influence

Zionism and racism - UN Resolution 3379

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Abraham Isaac Kook

Abraham Isaac Kook (1864 - 1935) a well-known proponent of Religious Zionism, was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz Harav, and a renowned Torah scholar. He is known in Hebrew as הרב אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, and by the acronym HaRaAYaH. Abraham Isaac Kook was born in Griva, Latvia (a suburb of Daugavpils, then Imperial Russia) in 1865. His father was a student of the Volozhin yeshiva, the heart of mitnagdut, whereas his ma ...

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Abraham Isaac Kook - Resources

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia II - Palestinian territories - Legal Status of the territories

The final status of the Palestinian territories as becoming (wholly or largely) an independent state for the Palestinian people is supported by the countries that back the road map. The government of Israel also accepted the road map but with 14 reservations [11]. Although Israeli settlements were not part of the Oslo Accord negotiations, the Palestinian position is that the creation and the presence of Israeli settlements in those areas is a violation of international law. This has also been affirmed by a majority of members of the Geneva c ...

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Christianity and anti-Semitism - Early origins

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Assimilation

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and the New Testament

Christianity and anti-Semitism - The Church Fathers

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Later Christian writers

Christianity and anti-Semitism - The Jews' expulsion from England

Christianity and anti-Semitism - The Jews' expulsion from Spain

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Christians in Nazi Germany

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Collaborating Christians

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Opposition to the Holocaust

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Comparisons between Nazi Germany and early Christian states' policies with regards to Jews

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Reasons that anti-Semitism continued

Christianity and anti-Semitism - 19th- and 20th-century Christian anti-Semitism

Christianity and anti-Semitism - The White Power movement

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in modern-day nations

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Current attempts to convert Jews to Christianity

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Reconciliation between Judaism and Christian groups

Christianity and anti-Semitism - Kevin MacDonald's theory of Christian anti-Semitism

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz

Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (also "Yishayahu", "Yeshayah", "Yeshayah", "Yishaya" - in English Abraham Isaiah Karelitz) (1878-1953) known by his pen name as the Chazon Ish (in Hebrew: "Vision [of] Man"), was a Lithuanian born Orthodox rabbi who became leader of Haredi Judaism in Israel. His final 20 years were in Israel from 1933 to 1953. Born in Kossow, Karelitz received his education from his father, head of the beth din (religious court) there. In 1911 he published his first work on Orach Chayim and other ...

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Holocaust theology

Holocaust theology refers to a body of theological and philosophical debate, soul-searching, and analysis, with the subsequent related literature, that attempts to come to grips with various conflicting views about the role of God in this human world and the dark events of the European Holocaust that occurred during World War II (1939-1945) when around 11 million people, including six million Jews were subjected to genocide by the Nazis and their cohorts. "Holocaust theology" is also referred to as "theology nach Auschwitz" ("after Auschwitz" in German), due to the common practice of using ...

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Holocaust theology - Jewish theological responses

Holocaust theology - Orthodox and Haredi Jewish responses

Holocaust theology - Modern Orthodox Jewish views

Holocaust theology - Works of important Jewish theologians

Holocaust theology - Michael Berenbaum

Holocaust theology - Richard Rubinstein

Holocaust theology - Emil Fackenheim

Holocaust theology - Ignaz Maybaum

Holocaust theology - Eliezer Berkovits

Holocaust theology - Harold Kushner Williams Kaufman and Milton Steiberg

Holocaust theology - David Weiss Halivni

Holocaust theology - Irving Greenberg

Holocaust theology - Christian view

Holocaust theology - Works of important Christian theologians

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Judah

Judah (יְהוּדָה "Praise", Standard Hebrew Yəhuda, Tiberian Hebrew Yəhûḏāh) is the name of several Biblical and historical figures. The original Greek text of the New Testament makes no difference between the names "Judah", "Judas" and "Jude", rendering them all as Ioudas; but in many English translations "Judah" is used for the Old Testament figure and the tribe named after him, "Judas" is used primarily for Judas Iscariot, and "Jude" for other New Testament persons of the same name. ...

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Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Israel

The State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל ▶ (help·info); Medinat Yisra'el; Arabic: دَوْلَةْ إِسْرَائِيل, Dawlat Isrā'īl) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a parliamentary democracy and the world's only Jewish state. The name "Israel" is rooted in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, wherein Jacob is renamed Israel after wrestling with a mysterious adversary ("a man", and later "God" according to Genesis 32:24- ...

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Israel - History

Israel - Historical roots

Israel - Zionism and Aliyah

Israel - Establishment of the State

Israel - War of Independence

Israel - Continuing immigration

Israel - Subsequent wars

Israel - Articles related to the wars

Israel - Politics and law

Israel - Legislature

Israel - Constitution and Legal System

Israel - Judiciary

Israel - Military

Israel - Geography

Israel - Metropolitan areas

Israel - Economy

Israel - Demographics

Israel - Children's welfare

Israel - Religion in Israel

Israel - Culture and religion

Israel - Footnotes

Israel - Annotated List of Israeli Media Sources

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Land of Israel: Encyclopedia - Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group, which can range from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution. The highly explicit ideology of Adolf Hitler's Nazism was the most extreme example of this phenomenon. Anti-Semitism has historically taken different forms: Religious anti-Semitism, or anti-Judaism. Before the 19th century, most anti-Semitism was primarily religious in nature, based on Christian or ...

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Anti-Semitism - Etymology and usage

Anti-Semitism - Definitions of the term

Anti-Semitism - Earliest Antisemitism

Anti-Semitism - Religious Antisemitism

Anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism in the New Testament

Anti-Semitism - Early Christianity

Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages

Anti-Semitism - Disabilities and Restrictions

Anti-Semitism - The Crusades

Anti-Semitism - The expulsions from England France Germany and Spain

Anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism and the Reformation

Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in 19th and 20th century Catholicism

Anti-Semitism - Passion plays

Anti-Semitism - Racial anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism - The rise of racial anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism - Elites and the use of Anti-semitism

Anti-Semitism - Dreyfus Affair

Anti-Semitism - Pogroms

Anti-Semitism - Anti-Jewish Legislation

Anti-Semitism - The Holocaust and Holocaust Denial

Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and the Muslim world

Anti-Semitism - Anti-semitism and specific countries

Anti-Semitism - United States

Anti-Semitism - Europe

Anti-Semitism - Asia

Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism

Anti-Semitism - New anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in the 21st century

Land of Israel: Encyclopedia II - Palestinian territories - Terminology

Because nearly all Palestinians (along with the bulk of the nations in the United Nations) consider these territories to be under occupation, they frequently refer to them as the occupied Palestinian territories, or, simply, Occupied Territories. This term is seen by supporters of Israel as connoting much more than a definition, but a host of related propositions that amount to a preventive political argument about the disposition and status of the land: that these territories are under the military control ...

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