** י ְ הו ֹ ש ֻׁ ע ַ Yehoshua – Joshua ( Hebrew – English at Mechon-Mamre. org, Jewish Publication Society translation )

*** Jeremiah at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society translation )

** Numbers at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society translation )

* Judges at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society translation )

* 1 Samuel at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society translation )

* 2 Samuel at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society translation )

* 1 Kings at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society 1917 translation )

* 2 Kings at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society 1917 translation )

* Ruth at Mechon Momre – ( Jewish Publication Society of America Version )

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $ 500, 000 to the faltering JTS.

David Lieber, Jules Harlow, Chaim Potok and Harold Kushner, The Jewish Publication Society, NY, 2001

Judaism and Modern Man: An Interpretation of Jewish religion, Jewish Publication Society.

* Exodus at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society translation )

* Genesis at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society translation )

Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles ISBN 0-8276-0389-4 ), Jewish Publication Society.

* Joseph Soloveitchik, Halakhic Man, Jewish Publication Society trans.

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In collaboration with the late Chaim Potok, Kushner co-edited Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary, the new official Torah commentary of the Conservative movement, which was jointly published in 2001 by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Publication Society.

* Brettler, Marc Zvi, " How to read the Bible " ( Jewish Publication Society, 2005 )

** Leviticus at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society translation )

In cooperation with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Jewish Publication Society, the RA published the Etz Hayim Humash, a Torah commentary for synagogue use.

* On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition Blu Greenberg, Jewish Publication Society

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.

Traditionalist Roman Catholic groups, congregations and clergymen, however, continue to support missionizing Jews according to traditional patterns, sometimes with success ( e. g., the Society of St. Pius X which has notable Jewish converts among its faithful, many of whom have become traditionalist priests ).

He was a leader in creating the Jewish community center concept, and helped found the Society for the Advancement of Judaism.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

1 and 2 Samuel were originally ( and still is in some Jewish bibles ) a single book, but the first Greek translation, produced in the centuries immediately before Christ, divided it into two ; this was adopted by the Latin translation used in the early Christian church of the West, and finally introduced into Jewish bibles around the early 16th century CE.

The name Ahasuerus is equivalent to Xerxes, both deriving from the Persian Khshayārsha, thus Ahasuerus is usually identified as Xerxes I ( 486-465 BCE ), though Ahasuerus is identified as Artaxerxes in the later Greek version of Esther ( as well as by Josephus, the Jewish commentary Esther Rabbah, the Ethiopic translation and the Christian theologian Bar-Hebraeus who identified him more precisely as Artaxerxes II ).

A. H. Armstrong identified the so-called " Gnostics " that Plotinus was attacking as Jewish and Pagan, in his introduction to the tract in his translation of the Enneads.

Halakha is often translated as " Jewish Law ", although a more literal translation might be " the path " or " the way of walking ".

This includes manuscript material for his books Guide to Jewish Religious Practice ( 1979 ), The Ten Commandments in a Changing World ( 1963 ), The Anguish and the Ecstasy of a Jewish Chaplain ( 1974 ), and his translation of The Code of Maimonides ( Mishneh Torah ): Book 7, The Book of Agriculture ( 1979 ).

He knew some Hebrew when he started his translation project, but moved to Jerusalem to strengthen his grip on Jewish scripture commentary.

The difference of seven books between the Catholic and Protestant canons stems from the fact that the early Christians used a Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures, called the Septuagint.

In Christian use, pontifex appears in the Vulgate translation of the New Testament to indicate the Jewish high priest ( in the original, ἀρχιερεύς ).

However, it was not until the time of Augustine of Hippo ( 354 – 430 CE ) that the Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures came to be called by the Latin term Septuaginta.

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

Following a large donation from the Jewish German American banker James Loeb who had at one time been a patient, and promises of support from ' patrons of science ', the German Institute for Psychiatric Research was founded in 1917 in Munich.

Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

In late 1917, as the British Army including the Jewish Legion drove the Turks out of Southern Syria.

* 1836 – Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer ( d. 1917 )

Zamenhof died in Warsaw on April 14, 1917, and is buried in the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery in that city.

* 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the " establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people " with the clear understanding " that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities ".

In 1917, Nehemiah went to the British Mandate of Palestine with a group of volunteers from the Jewish Legion.

November 2: Balfour Declaration 1917: British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour sends a letter to Lord Rothschild, President of the Zionist Federation, declaring his government would " view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ".

Toynbee investigated Zionism in 1915 at the Information Department of the Foreign Office, and in 1917 he published a memorandum with his colleague Lewis Namier which supported exclusive Jewish political rights in Palestine.

He joined the British Army in 1918 as part of the 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers ( Jewish Legion ) part of Chaytor's Force ( following the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 ).

He was born Lucien Ginsburg in Paris, France, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants, Joseph Ginsburg ( 28 December 1898, Kharkov ( Ukraine ) – 22 April 1971 ) and Olga Bessman ( 1894 – 16 March 1985 ), who fled to Paris after the 1917 Russian Revolution.

Hobsbawm was born in 1917 at Alexandria, Egypt, to Leopold Percy Hobsbaum, a British colonial officer of Polish-Jewish descent, and Nelly Grün, who was from a middle-class Austrian Jewish family background, and his early childhood was spent in Vienna, Austria, and Berlin, Germany.

In this post, he authored the Balfour Declaration of 1917, supporting the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and for which his name perhaps remains best known today.

In 1917, he became president of the British Zionist Federation ; he worked with Arthur Balfour to obtain the milestone Balfour Declaration, which stated in part that the British government " views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ... it being clearly understood ...".

; 1917 August: The formation of the Jewish Legion ( Zion Mule Corps ), initiated in 1914 by Joseph Trumpeldor and Zeev Jabotinsky.

; 1918 – 1920: Massive pogroms accompanied the Russian Revolution of 1917 ( the Russian Civil War ), resulting in the death of an estimated 70, 000 to 250, 000 civilian Jews throughout the former Russian Empire ; the number of Jewish orphans exceeded 300, 000.

Representatives of most Belarusian regions and of different ( mostly left-wing ) political powers, including the Belarusian Socialist Assembly, the Christian democratic movement and the General Jewish Labour Bund, formed a Belarusian National Council in late 1917.

Feinstein's paternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Poland, while her maternal grandparents, who were of the Russian Orthodox faith, left St. Petersburg, Russia, after the 1917 Russian Revolution.

The following quotations are from the Hebrew Bible, 1917 Jewish Publication Society translation:

Prigogine was born in Moscow a few months before the Russian Revolution of 1917, into a Jewish family.

In 1917 these organizations were combined into a Jewish Welfare Board, and were later renamed Jewish Community Centers ( or JCCs ), though some retain the YWHA or YMHA designation.