Second, the attitude in Jewish families is far more protective toward the daughter than toward the son.

) Similarly, when Jewish families and larger groups sing traditional Sabbath songs known as zemirot outside the context of formal religious services, they usually do so a cappella, and Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations on the Sabbath sometimes feature entertainment by a cappella ensembles.

However, a few families were permitted to live in two villages, Endingen and Lengnau, in Aargau which became the Jewish ghetto in Switzerland.

This resulted in the famous " Letter to the Alexandrians ", which reaffirmed Jewish rights in the city but also forbade them to move in more families en masse.

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Some 1, 200 Jewish residents and refugees from other Balkan countries were hidden by Albanian families during World War II, according to official records.

In September 1941, through the " Action Lauterbacher " plan, a ghettoisation of the remaining Hanoverian Jewish families began.

The term " secular " is more popular as a self-description among Israeli families of western ( European ) origin, whose Jewish identity may be a very powerful force in their lives, but who see it as largely independent of traditional religious belief and practice.

In 1998, an ad hoc CCAR committee on Human Sexuality issued its majority report ( 11 to 1, 1 abstention ) which stated that the holiness within a Jewish marriage " may be present in committed same gender relationships between two Jews and that these relationships can serve as the foundation of stable Jewish families, thus adding strength to the Jewish community.

After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, additional members of the Sicarii and numerous Jewish families fled Jerusalem and settled on the mountaintop, using it as a base for harassing the Romans.

It is traditional for Jewish families to gather on the first night of Passover ( first two nights in communities outside the land of Israel ) for a special dinner called a seder ( סדר — derived from the Hebrew word for " order ", referring to the very specific order of the ritual ).

His parents were both from Jewish families in Leipzig ( the myth of his American birth in Memphis, Tennessee was necessary for him to obtain a visa in Paris ).

Sukkah booths where Jewish families eat their meals throughout the Sukkot holiday

Throughout the week of Sukkot, meals are eaten in the sukkah and Orthodox Jewish families sleep there, although the requirement is waived in case of rain.

Many wealthy families lacked prestige and power, for example, because they were Jewish.

In 1842 it was estimated that about 400 Arab and 120 Jewish families lived in Hebron, the latter having been diminished in number following the destruction of 1834.

By 1850, the Jewish population consisted of 60 Sephardi families and a 30-year old Ashkenazi community of 50 families.

Two years later, 35 families moved back into the ruins of the Jewish quarter, but on the eve of the Palestinian Arab national revolt ( April 23, 1936 ) the British Government decided to move the Jewish community out of Hebron as a precautionary measure to secure its safety.

* 3, 826 Jewish families ( 1. 5 %)

Individual Poles, both clerical and secular, also offered various forms of aid to the Jewish people. For example, the children's section of Żegota led by Irena Sendler saved 2, 500 Jewish children with cooperation of Polish families and the Warsaw orphanage of the Sisters of the Family of Mary, Roman Catholic convents such as the Little Sister Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary Conceived Immaculate.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

He writes, `` Most of my friends and I were Jewish ; ;

They were disturbed by his idiotic bravado -- as, when his bodyguard, Yankee Schwartz, complained that he had been snubbed by Dave Miller, a prize-fight referee, chieftain of a Jewish gang and one of four brothers of tough reputation, who were Hirschey, a gambler-politician in loose beer-running league with Torrio and O'Banion, Frank, a policeman, and Max, the youngest.

The most important aims of the Jewish students were as follows: to make the world a better place to live in -- 30 per cent ; ;

However, they were hostile to Jewish Orthodoxy, professing to believe in Judaism `` but in a moderate way ''.

The Sadducees were an ancient Jewish sect that generally believed that there was a God but no afterlife.

Whereas the members of Jewish Christianity were circumcised and adhered to dietary laws, the Pauline Christianity featured in Acts did not require Gentiles to be circumcised or to obey all of the Mosaic laws, which is consistent with Noahide Law.

In the Jewish Deuterocanonical book Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, " one finds in the records " that Jeremiah, having received an oracle of the Lord, ordered that the tent and the ark and the altar of incense should follow him to the mountain of God where he sealed them up in a cave, and he told those who followed him in order to mark the way ( but they could not find it ) " The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy, and then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud shall appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place be specially consecrated.

Also, prior to the massive Sephardic emigrations to the Middle East in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Jewish communities of what are today Syria, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt and Yemen were known by other Jewish communities as Musta ' arabi Jews or " like Arabs ".

Jewish and Christian music were originally a cappella, and this tradition has existed continuously in both of these religions as well as in Islam.

Important early anthroposophists who were Jewish included Karl König, the founder of the Camphill movement, and a majority of the executive board of the original Anthroposophical Society.

Martin Buber and Hugo Bergmann, who viewed Steiner's social ideas as a solution to the Arab – Jewish conflict, were also influenced by Anthroposophy.

His paternal grandparents were Danish immigrants and his mother was of half Polish Jewish and half German descent.

A plaque in the entrance serves as a memorial to the synagogue and to Jewish residents who were murdered during the Holocaust.

The Therapeutae, pagan ascetic hermits and loosely organized cenobitic communities described by the Hellenized Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria in the first century, were long established in the harsh environments by Lake Mareotis close to Alexandria, and in other less-accessible regions.

Oranienburger Straße and the nearby New Synagogue were the center of Jewish culture before 1933.

Its Jewish residents were expelled by the military order of Hadrian.

The Chronicles, on the other hand, were written much later, after the restoration of the Jewish community in Palestine, at a time when the kingdoms were beginning to be regarded as the nostalgic past, something to be at least partially imitated, not something to be avoided.

Porteous and Roche agree that the Book of Daniel is composed of folktales that were used to fortify the Jewish faith during a time of great persecution and oppression by the Hellenized Seleucids some four centuries after Babylonian captivity.

British authorities, and resident Arabs, regarding land, immigration, and Jewish national aspirations.

Life in Nazi-occupied Częstochowa is depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, by Art Spiegelman, the son of a Jewish Częstochowa resident.

The first Jewish resident was Isaac Miranda, who owned property there before the town and county were organized in 1730.

Another notable Jewish resident from 1955 until his death in 2000, was the spiritual head of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, Rabbi Chanoch Dov Padwa.

* Jews Walk, it is believed that a wealthy Jewish resident planted a row of trees to define the boundary of his walk from the Common.

He is the author of the play " The Immigrant ", based on the life of his grandfather, Haskell Harelik, Hamilton's first Jewish resident.

He is a member of several think-tanks including the Hudson Institute, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy ( WINEP ) Board of Advisors, the Center for Security Policy ( CSP ), the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research ( as a resident fellow ), the neoconservative Project for the New American Century ( PNAC ), and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs ( JINSA ).

The first known Jewish resident of Philadelphia was Jonas Aaron, a German who moved to the city in 1703.

For example: One Jewish Chełm resident bought a fish on Friday in order to cook it for Sabbath.

On 20 January 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, deputed to find a " final solution " to the " Jewish problem ", chaired the Wannsee Conference at which all the Jews resident in Europe and North Africa were earmarked for extermination.

Ger toshav ( ger " foreigner " + toshav " resident "), is a term used in Judaism to refer to a gentile who is a " resident alien ", that is, one who lives in a Jewish state and has certain protections under Jewish law, and is considered a righteous gentile ( hassid umot ha-olam " pious among the nations ").

The long siege by the troops of the Roman Empire led to the mass suicide of the Sicarii rebels and resident Jewish families of the Masada fortress.

George Stalton, a former resident of Tyczyn, estimates that the Nazis reduced Jewish population from approximately 2, 000 people to 10 people by end of the war.

Jewish migration was impeded by Nazi restrictions on the transfer of finances abroad ( departing Jews had to abandon their property ), but the Jewish Agency was able to negotiate an agreement allowing Jews resident in Germany to buy German goods for export to Palestine thus circumventing the restrictions.

During the Conference, Roosevelt spoke with the French resident general at Rabat, Morocco, about postwar independence and Jewish immigrants in North Africa.

In our community, women also have a very strong motivation to seek female doctors ," said their lawyer, Rachel Freier, a community resident and Orthodox Jewish mother of six.

Jurbarkas resident and volunteer Rita Vaiva has been painstakingly re-inscribing lettering on headstones at the Yurburg Jewish Cemetery.

The Million Mom March had its roots in August 1999, when New Jersey resident Donna Dees-Thomases saw broadcast coverage of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting rampage in Granada Hills, California.

The first Jewish resident of Philadelphia was Jonas Aaron, who was living there in 1703.

Two Jewish settlers suspected of involvement in the beating of Midhat Abu Karsh, a 30-year-old Palestinian teacher and resident of as-Samu, were arrested.