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Today the Jewish cemetery of Casablanca is one of the major cemeteries of the city.
Talmudic sages Hillel and Rabbi Akiva commented that this is a major element of the Jewish religion.
All had major effects on Jewish cultures.
Beside such revived currents from late Antiquity, a second major source of esoteric speculation is the Kabbalah, which was lifted out of its Jewish context and adapted to a Christian framework by people such as Johannes Reuchlin.
Through 2010, he was first in career home runs and RBIs ( ahead of Shawn Green ) and batting average ( ahead of Ryan Braun ), and fourth in hits ( behind Lou Boudreau ), among all-time Jewish major league baseball players.
From 132 to 136, the Jewish leader Simon Bar Kokhba led another major revolt against the Romans, again renaming the country " Israel " ( see Bar Kochba Revolt coinage ).
The Mishnah, a major Jewish religious text, was completed in this period.
His conscription policies led to a popular Arab revolt in 1834, resulting in major casualties for the local Arab peasants and massacres of Christian and Jewish communities by the rebels.
In the major codes of Jewish law, two other main categorization schemes are found.
Other major characters include Ivanhoe's intractable father, Cedric, one of the few remaining Saxon lords ; various Knights Templar and churchmen ; the loyal serfs Gurth the swineherd and the jester Wamba, whose observations punctuate much of the action ; and the Jewish moneylender, Isaac of York, who is equally passionate about money and his daughter, Rebecca.
Devoted to his family, he dedicated his major work, A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice to his children, sons-in-law and 13 grandchildren listing each by name.
A major source of difference between these groups is their approach to Jewish law.
Over the next four centuries this law underwent discussion and debate in both of the world's major Jewish communities ( in Israel and Babylonia ), and the commentaries on the Mishnah from each of these communities eventually came to be edited together into compilations known as the two Talmuds.
Hanukkah is not mentioned in the Bible and was never considered a major holiday in Judaism, but it has become much more visible and widely celebrated in modern times, mainly because it falls around the same time as Christmas and has national Jewish overtones that have been emphasized since the establishment of the State of Israel.
The Gemara originated in two major centers of Jewish scholarship, Palestine and Babylonia.
* 1 Nisan: " new year " for counting months and major festivals and for calculating the years of the reign of a Jewish king
* Musaf ( מו ּ ס ָ ף, " additional ") are recited by Orthodox and Conservative congregations on Shabbat, major Jewish holidays ( including Chol HaMoed ), and Rosh Chodesh.
Rabbi Norman Lamm ( the Chancellor, Rosh Yeshiva of the yeshiva ", and former president of Yeshiva University, a major Modern Orthodox Jewish institution ) advocated that some ( although not all ) homosexuals should be viewed as diseased and in need of compassion and treatment, rather than willful rebels who should be ostracized.
Leviticus constitutes a major source of Jewish law.
shani ) is the first major written redaction of the Jewish oral traditions called the " Oral Torah ".
Over the next four centuries this material underwent analysis and debate, known as Gemara (" completion "), in what were at that time the world's two major Jewish communities, in the land of Israel and in the Babylonian Empire.
But as this practice only attaches to certain ( major ) sacred days, others posit the extra day may have been added to accommodate people who had to travel long distances to participate in communal worship and ritual practices ; or the practice may have evolved as a compromise between conflicting interpretations of Jewish Law regarding the calendar ; or it may have evolved as a safety measure in areas where Jews were commonly in danger, so that their enemies would not be certain on which day to attack.
In Israel, Passover lasts for seven days with the first and last days being major Jewish holidays.
The revisions resulted in a rebuke from the major Jewish denominations in a June 13, 2008 letter to the head of the PCUSA and a similar condemnation in the form of a statement from the denominations and ten other organizations.
The process of " Gemara " proceeded in what were then the two major centers of Jewish scholarship, the Land of Israel and Babylonia.

Jewish and league
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 Jewish communities of three cities along the Rhine: Speyer, Worms and Mainz, created the SHUM league ( SHUM after the first Hebrew letters of Shpira, Vermayza, and Magentza ).
Green was one of the best-known Jewish major league ballplayers, and the most prominent one with the New York Mets since Art Shamsky played right field for the World Champion Mets.
Of Jewish major leaguers, only Hank Greenberg, with 331 home runs and 1, 276 RBIs, has more major league home runs and RBIs than Green.
Through 2010, he was third all-time in career hits ( behind Shawn Green ), fourth in batting average ( behind Buddy Myer ), and fifth in RBIs ( behind Sid Gordon ) among Jewish major league baseball players.
Before moving back to Austin, Texas in 1978, Winegarten worked for various social causes in Dallas, including serving as the southwest regional director of the Anti-defamation league of the B ' nai B ' rith, and as assistant director of the Jewish Welfare Federation in Dallas.
The JC sponsors the Jewish Sunday league system in London, known as the Maccabi Football League.
In 1897 Jewish workers in Russia created the Bund (" league " or " union "), an organization that subsequently became popular in western Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Russian Poland.
Youkilis is the son of a Romanian Jewish jewelry wholesaler, whom Youkilis has described as a " well-known third baseman in the Jewish Community Center fast-pitch softball league.
Through 2010, he was fourth in career home runs ( behind Sid Gordon ), sixth in RBIs ( behind Lou Boudreau ), and eighth in hits ( behind Mike Lieberthal ) among all-time Jewish major league baseball players.
Burnie is also the only Jewish mascot in the league.
Through 2010, he was 10th all-time in career home runs among Jewish major league baseball players.
Stern is the second Jewish player from Canada in major league history.
He is one of the best Jewish pitchers in major league history.
He is considered one of the best Jewish pitchers in major league history.
Being in Israel, Blomberg said, “ was the greatest thing — just one notch below playing for the Yankees .” In the league they were obliged to have at least two Jewish players on each team, and Blomberg had two Orthodox Israelis on his team.
Through July 2011, he was fourth all-time in career wins and strikeouts ( directly behind Steve Stone in both categories ) among Jewish major league baseball players.
The historian Andrew Markus wrote that " In the 1990s league publications were still promoting The Protocols, describing the Holocaust as a ' hoax ', the invention of Zionist propagandists, identifying prominent Jewish individuals in public life and declaring that modern Christianity was ' little more than a form of Liberal Judaism '.
Through 2010, he was ninth all-time in career hits ( behind Al Rosen ) among Jewish major league baseball players.
According to Brian " Small Bird " Fox, Through 2010, Lieberthal may have hit the 5th-most career home runs of any Jewish major league baseball player, behind Hank Greenberg, Shawn Green, Sid Gordon, and Al Rosen, and was 7th on the all-time list in hits ( behind Gordon ) and RBIs ( behind Rosen ).
" " But, however, in the last 10 or so years, I have had quite a few young Jewish boys who will tell me that I am their favorite player or they love watching me play or they feel like baseball is a good fit for them because it worked for me or it worked for Shawn Green or other Jewish players at the major league level.

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