Many Jews consider a portion of the 49-day period of the counting of the omer between Passover and Shavuot to be a time of semi-mourning and instrumental music is not allowed during that time.

Many Conservative Jews reject the traditional Jewish idea that God literally dictated the words of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai in a verbal revelation, but they hold the traditional Jewish belief that God inspired the later prophets to write the rest of the Tanakh.

Many Conservative Jews believe that Moses was inspired by God in the same manner as the later prophets.

Many Catholic saints were noted specifically because of their missionary zeal in converting Jews, such as Vincent Ferrer.

Many Jews were forced to flee Germany.

Many Jews view Christians as having quite an ambivalent view of the Torah, or Mosaic law: on one hand Christians speak of it as God's absolute word, but on the other, they apply its commandments with a certain selectivity ( compare Biblical law in Christianity ).

Many Jews view Jesus as one in a long list of failed Jewish claimants to be the Messiah, none of whom fulfilled the tests of a prophet specified in the Law of Moses.

Many Jewish academics and intellectuals studied and taught at CUNY in the post-World War I era when Ivy League universities, such as Yale University, discriminated against Jews.

Many of the Bavarian Soviet Republic's leaders were Jewish, allowing anti-Jewish propagandists to connect Jews with Communism ( and thus treason ).

Many of its representatives such as Matthias Erzberger and Walther Rathenau were assassinated, and the leaders were branded as " criminals " and Jews by the right-wing press dominated by Alfred Hugenberg.

Many English people have heard almost nothing about the extermination of German and Polish Jews during the present war.

Many Jews converted to Christianity, however, prejudice against Jewish converts persisted and led many of these former Jews to move to the New World ( see History of the Jews in Latin America ).

Many medieval religious movements emphasized mysticism, such as the Cathars and related movements in the West, the Jews in Spain ( see Zohar ), the Bhakti movement in India and Sufism in Islam.

Many of these Jews would live in mountainous regions to get away from any non-Jewish influence.

Many non-religious Jews make a point of attending synagogue services and fasting on Yom Kippur.

Many Jews were forced to convert, and due to suspicion by the authorities of fake conversions, the new converts were also forced to wear identifying clothing.

Many Haredi or ultra-orthodox Jews are extremely scrupulous about the supervision of their matzah, as eating leavened products during Passover is liable to the extremely grave divine punishment of Kareth ( or a sin-offering if unintentional ); consequently many have the custom of baking their own matzo, or at least participating in some stage of the baking process.

Many Sephardi Jews have the custom of eating lamb or goat meat during the Seder in memory of the Korban Pesach.

Many households add their own commentary and interpretation and often the story of the Jews is related to the theme of liberation and its implications worldwide.

Many Orthodox Jews during Hol Hamoed go on trips such as baseball games and Six Flags Great Adventure.

Many branches of Reform Judaism hold that Jewish law should be interpreted as a set of general guidelines rather than as a list of restrictions whose literal observance is required of all Jews.

Many Jews were beaten to death, robbed, and burned alive.

Many Jewish homes were burned down, and several Jews were forcibly baptised.

Many countries now extend legal recognition of sex reassignment by permitting a change of legal gender on the individual's birth certificate.

Many neurons extrude long thin filaments of protoplasm called axons, which may extend to distant parts of the body and are capable of rapidly carrying electrical signals, influencing the activity of other neurons, muscles, or glands at their termination points.

Many types of neuron possess an axon, a protoplasmic protrusion that can extend to distant parts of the body and make thousands of synaptic contacts.

Many of the common larger species are farm-raised for table food or egg consumption, and are hunted on game farms or in the wild, where they are sometimes artificially stocked to supplement the wild population, or extend into areas they are normally not found naturally.

Many of the mesenteries project into the enteric cavity but some extend from the body wall to the central stomodaeum.

Many Chinese laymen extend the Three Kingdoms into the Later Han Dynasty, variably to 184 ( to the Yellow Turban Rebellion ) or to 189 ( the Ten Eunuchs ' coup ).

Many shots used matte paintings to extend backgrounds and create establishing shots without the cost of building a set.

Many elite athletes made the attempts to extend their careers beyond age 40 to challenge that mark.

Many civil societies do not extend such protections to the internal operations of communities or organizations so long as an ex-member has the same rights, prerogatives, and power as any other member of the civil society.

Many spacecraft launched in the past couple of decades have the ability to fire a small rocket ( 1 ) to increase the altitude to compensate for the decay and extend the lifetime in space, ( 2 ) to re-enter the atmosphere and crash into the ocean, or ( 3 ) change the orbit to avoid collision with other spacecraft.

Many transit advocates believe that it would have been wiser either to build it using streetcars, as was originally planned, to allow for lower costs and more flexibility in route options or simply to extend the underground Bloor – Danforth line further into Scarborough ( for more details, including the proposal to combine it with the Eglinton Crosstown line, see Future below ).

Many cities now extend the observance of Earth Day events to an entire week, usually starting on April 16 and ending on Earth Day, April 22.

Many Islamic theologians extend the sense of worship to include praying to some other being to intercede with Allah on one's behalf, rather than taking one's case to God Himself.

Many newer class A motorhomes and some fifthwheel trailers have computer-controlled leveling jacks that, at the touch of a button, automatically extend and level the RV.

Many parts in the coloratura soprano repertoire extend beyond " high C " and often extend up to high F ( F6 ).

Many radial segment lines — somewhat pineapple-like — extend across the outer disks.

Many properties of projective schemes extend to this context.

Many modern hybrid and electric vehicles use this technique to extend the range of the battery pack.

Many countries have a mechanism to allow the holder of a visa to apply to extend a visa.

Many older pianos only have 85 keys ( seven octaves from A0 to A7 ), while some manufacturers extend the range further in one or both directions.

Many are careful to always use three fingers when eating, drink water in three pauses with the right hand while sitting and make sure their jellabiya or other garment worn by them does not extend below the ankle so as to follow the example of Muhammad and his companions.

Many aircraft between the wars-at the time when retractable gear was becoming commonplace-were deliberately designed to allow the bottom of the wheels to protrude below the fuselage even when retracted to reduce the damage caused if the pilot forgot to extend the landing gear or in case the plane was shot down and forced to crash-land.

Many more motor cortex neurons, however, extend fibers all the way down to the spinal cord ( corticospinal tract ).