In 1921, the Zionist Commission was granted official status as the Jewish Agency for Palestine in Article 4 of the Mandate.

The Mandate permitted the Jewish Agency to oversee Jewish immigration into Palestine and land purchases from the local Arabs.

The Jewish Agency soon operated as an arm of the Zionist leadership.

Chaim Weizmann was the leader of both the Zionist Organisation and the Jewish Agency until 1929.

The Jewish Agency distributed entry permits to new immigrants ( the number was fixed by the British ) and funds donated by Jews abroad.

The Political Department of the JNC was responsible for relations with the Arabs, ties with the Jewish Agency and negotiations with the British.

20 years later, the Jewish Agency leader, David Ben-Gurion wrote: " Had partition to the Peel Commission partition plan been carried out, the history of our people would have been different and six million Jews in Europe would not have been killed — most of them would be in Israel.

During the 2nd World War, the Jewish Agency worked to establish a Jewish army that would fight alongside the British forces.

In the meantime the Jewish Agency called on Palestine's Jewish youth to volunteer for the British Army ( both men and women ).

Leadership of the movement passed to the Jewish Agency in Palestine, now led by the anti-British Socialist-Zionist party ( Mapai ) and led by David Ben-Gurion.

In June 1946, following instances of Jewish sabotage, the British launched Operation Agatha, arresting 2700 Jews, including the leadership of the Jewish Agency, whose headquarters were raided.

David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.

Articles 4, 6 and 11 provide for the recognition of a Jewish Agency “ as a public body for the purpose of advising and co-operating with the Administration ” on matters affecting Jewish interests.

Its goals include pressing for religious pluralism, working for an equitable distribution of funding from the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Conservative Zionist programs in Israel and America, promoting civil rights in Israel for all people, encouraging electoral reform in Israel, and opposing any change in " Who Is a Jew?

MERCAZ is a member of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Israel, both of which have been designated by the Knesset as channels of communication and influence between Diaspora Jewry and the government of Israel.

He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency.

David Ben-Gurion, leader of Mapai and head of the Jewish Agency became Israel's first Prime Minister.

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" Scholars have put forward several theories to explain Papias: perhaps Matthew wrote two gospels, one, now lost, in Hebrew, the other our Greek version ; or perhaps the logia was a collection of sayings rather than the gospel ; or by dialektōi Papias may have meant that Matthew wrote in the Jewish style rather than in the Hebrew language.

For this reason, critics of Arafat claim that he put his desire to destroy the Jewish state above his dream of building an autonomous Palestinian state.

In 2006, the Jewish National and University Library at Hebrew University put on an exhibit commemorating the 900th anniversary of Rashi's death ( 2005 ), showcasing rare items from the library collection written by Rashi, as well as various works by others concerning Rashi.

Gustloff, who worked as a Swiss government meteorologist, joined the NSDAP in 1929 and put much effort in the distribution of the antisemitic book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to the point that members of the Swiss Jewish community sued the book's distributor, the Swiss branch of the German Nazi Party, for libel.

* Cestius Gallus, legate of Syria, marches into Judea and leads a Roman army of 28, 000 soldiers to put down the Jewish rebellion.

* Province of Iudaea ( Judea ): Titus Flavius Vespasianus arrives in Ptolemais, along with Legio X Fretensis and Legio V Macedonica to put down the Jewish Revolt.

On May 17, 1939, the British government issued the White Paper of 1939, in which the idea of partitioning the Mandate was abandoned in favor of Jews and Arabs sharing one government and put strict quotas on further Jewish immigration.

* Constantius Gallus sends his general ( magister equitum ) Ursicinus to forcefully put down the Jewish revolt in Palestine.

As the Jewish Encyclopedia put it, " David waged a sacred war of extermination against the Amalekites ," who may have subsequently disappeared from history.

In 135 CE the second Jewish revolt against the Romans was put down.

After the war, a number of conspiracy theories were put forward, one by Lord Alfred Douglas, positing a connection between Kitchener's death, the recent naval Battle of Jutland, Winston Churchill, and a Jewish conspiracy.

Politically, it was also considered desirable to create a Soviet Jewish homeland as an ideological alternative to Zionism and the theory put forward by Socialist Zionists such as Ber Borochov that the Jewish Question could be resolved by creating a Jewish territory in Palestine.

In 1955 a plaque was put up near “ the remains of the shrine of ‘ Little St Hugh ’” in the cathedral, that decries the “ Trumped up stories of ‘ ritual murders ’ of Christian boys by Jewish communities .”

Frankel proved that no Jewish doctrine justified such an assumption, and owing to his work a new regulation ( 13 February 1840 ) put the Jews on the same basis as Christians as regards testimony in court.

In light of this, Bishop Simeon of Beth Arsham urged the Christians of Palaestina to seize the leaders of Judaism in Tiberias, to put them to the rack, and to compel them to command the Jewish king, Dhu Nuwas, to desist from persecuting the Christians in Najran.

The ancient Jewish ouranography that one can find in the Bible ( Old Testament ) pictured a flat Earth over which was put a dome-shaped rigid canopy, named firmament ( רקיע-rāqîa ').

At the same time, Irving put a copy of Hitler's " Prophecy Speech " of 30 January 1939, promising the " annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe " if " Jewish financiers " started another world war, onto his wall.

In this fictionalized case, based on the real life Katzenberger Trial, an elderly Jewish man was tried for a relationship with an " Aryan " ( German ) woman that was legally defined as improper under the Nuremberg Laws, and put to death in 1942.

A group of Jewish men were forced by the Nazis to demolish a statue of Lenin that had been put up earlier by the Soviets ( as in Kolno ), and then carry it out of town while singing Soviet songs.

While in Cutchogue on August 2, 1939, pipe-smoking Einstein was visited by fellow Jewish physicists from Hungary Leo Szilard ( who had produced a nuclear chain reaction in a laboratory at Columbia University ) and Eugene Wigner ( who both had been put up to it by Niels Bohr, and found his house after asking directions from a 7-year-old boy on the street ), and signed the famous July 16 Letter to President Roosevelt, alerting him to the new developments in nuclear physics and hinting that the Germans might be working on an atomic bomb, urging him to launch his own program.

In Jewish author Elie Wiesel's play The Trial of God ( 1979 ), the survivors of a pogrom, in which most of the inhabitants of a 17th-century Jewish village were massacred, put God on trial for his cruelty and indifference to their misery.

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.

Weaving together Jewish and Greek thought, Philo promoted praise without instruments, and taught that " silent singing " ( without even vocal chords ) was better still.

For instance, if two men and a woman were to eat a meal together, a Conservative Jew would believe that the presence of three adult Jews would obligate the group to say a communal form of the Grace After Meals, while an Orthodox Jew would believe that, lacking three adult Jewish males, the group would not be able to do such.

" He brought together two passages from Genesis, reinforcing the basic position on marriage found in Jewish scripture.

Birger Gerhardsson notes his opinion that “ Luke is very much dependent upon Palestinian tradition .” Adolf Schlatter concluded that the text's character together with other indicators point to the author's provenance from the Jewish church.

Jewish sources, however, do not group him with those two prophets, who are often placed together, so it is possible that he was slightly earlier than they.

A beloved Rabbi, he influenced generations of congregants and visiting students and, together with his wife who was an educator, founded Jewish day schools in both Springfield and Buffalo.

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.

Jewish law also forbids the consumption of meat and dairy products together.

He sent five letters to the Jewish communities of Lower Egypt asking them to pool money together to pay the ransom.

According to Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer, spiritual leader of Temple Israel Community Center in Cliffside Park and former executive editor of Jewish Week, this leaves “ Orthodox ” as “ an umbrella term that designates a very widely disparate group of people very loosely tied together by some core beliefs .”

For guidance in practical application of Jewish law, the majority of Orthodox Jews appeal to the Shulchan Aruch (" Code of Jewish Law " composed in the 16th century by Rabbi Joseph Caro ) together with its surrounding commentaries.

From the beginning, Reconstructionist Jewish ritual allowed men and women to pray together — a decision based on egalitarian philosophy.

: He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst, and a feared father of a Jewish home .... e was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them permanent.

Conybeare has stated that this act originated within the ancient Hebrew synagogue, and Philo, the ancient Jewish philosopher called it a " kiss of harmony ," where, as Crawley explains, " the Word of God brings hostile things together in concord and the kiss of love.

The first given evidence for a differentiation, between traditional Jewish " Shabbat " observance and the religious observance of the first day of the week, appears in Acts 20: 7 where the disciples met and " broke bread " together.

This work was so important in Jewish law that Yosef Karo included the ROSH together with Maimonides and Isaac Alfasi as one of the three major poskim ( decisors ) considered in determining the final ruling in his Shulkhan Arukh.

From a functional point of view, therefore, non-Orthodox rabbis are valid leaders of Jewish religious communities, and it is both fatuous and self-defeating not to acknowledge this openly and draw the necessary consequences -- for example, establishing friendly and harmonious and respectful relationships and working together, all of us, towards those Jewish communal and global goals that we share and that unite us inextricably and indissolubly ....

With all our theological differences, yet we part of one Jewish people and work together in so many ways for the benefit of the Jewish community ....

" The Path ", frequently translated as " Jewish Law ") is based on a " Written Instruction " together with an " Oral Instruction ".

Jordan's King Hussein permitted the construction of the Intercontinental Hotel at the summit of the Mount of Olives together with a road that cut through the cemetery which destroyed hundreds of Jewish graves, some from the First Temple Period.