THERE ARE 14 MILLION JEWS WORLDWIDE, NEVER AGAIN IS NOW.
Vern Bender
The Jewish religion started up four thousand years ago. The Christian faith started up two thousand years ago. The Islam religion started fourteen hundred years ago—three monotheistic Abrahamic faiths.
In The 1940s, the Holocaust killed six million Jews. Currently, there are about fourteen million Jews worldwide. A few years after The Holocaust, the Jews decided it was time to get back to where they once belonged. They came home with the vengeance of “never again.”
The Jewish religion started up four thousand years ago.
Abraham was the founder of Judaism. God made a covenant with Abraham that his descendants would be God’s chosen people. Abraham was a nomadic man from Ur. Most Jews don’t buy into Jesus being their Christ; The Jewish Messiah hasn’t shown up yet, according to Jewish dogma. The Abrahamic covenant was the foundation of Judaism. The Mosaic covenant made the rules, laws, guidelines, and doctrines of Judaism. The Mosaic Covenant established 613 commandments. They include The Ten Commandants, the body of food laws, prohibitions against sorcery, witchcraft, and magic, and male descendants are to be circumcised. Judaism is an intensely textual religious tradition.
The Hebrew Bible is named The Torah. The Christian Old Testament Bible is a rearranged Torah. The first five books of the Torah outline laws for Jews to follow. (the Pentateuch). There are two primary texts in Judaism: the Tanakh and the Talmud.
Israel lived in the Promised Land for around 1,000 years after they were freed from Egyptian slavery. This period was followed by the biblical dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe.
Before the middle of the first century C.E., in addition to Judea, Syria, and Babylonia, large Jewish communities existed in the Roman provinces of Egypt, Crete Cyrenaica, and Rome.
THERE ARE 14 MILLION JEWS WORLDWIDE, NEVER AGAIN IS NOW.
The six-pointed Star of David is the symbol of Judaism. More than 1,000 years after Abraham, the prophet Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt after being enslaved for hundreds of years. God revealed his laws, known as the Ten Commandments, to Moses at Mt. Sinai. Around 1000 B.C., King David ruled the Jewish people. His son Solomon built the first holy Temple in Jerusalem.
The kingdom fell apart around 931 B.C., and the Jewish people split into two groups: Israel in the North and Judah in the South. In 587 B.C., the Babylonians destroyed the first Temple and sent many Jews into exile. A second Temple was built in about 516 B.C. but was eventually destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70. Worshipping in local synagogues followed that destruction. Today, there are about 14 million Jews worldwide. Most of them live in the United States and Israel.
The Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews have roughly 30% European ancestry; the rest are Middle Eastern. Many retain their Sephardic, Ashkenazi, and Mizrahi heritages.
The Israeli Jews of today comprise an increasing mixture of Jewish communities from Europe, North Africa, and elsewhere in the Middle East.
They believed God had made a covenant, or promise/ binding agreement, with Abraham and his descendants. The Torah = the first five books of the Bible. Prophets of Israel preached a robust code of ethics or moral standards of behavior.
THERE ARE 14 MILLION JEWS WORLDWIDE, NEVER AGAIN IS NOW.
The ancestry of most American Jews goes back to Ashkenazi Jewish communities that immigrated to the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Jews have been persecuted on-going. 1066 Granada Massacre, The First Crusade, 1492 Spanish Expulsion, The Holocaust, and more. In 1948, Israel officially became an independent nation. Six wars of survival have followed. An Iranian/Hamas terrorist attack is currently underway.
There are several sects in Judaism. Orthodox Judaism, Hasidic Jews, Reform Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism, and Humanistic Judaism.
The Jewish Holidays are Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, High Holy Days, Hanukkah, and Purim.
