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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Jewish denominations
		Jewish religious denominations are distinct from but often linked to Jewish ethnic divisions and Jewish political movements.
		Although there are numerous Jewish ethnic communities, there are several that are large enough to be considered "predominant."?title=Ashkenazi communities compose about 42% of the world's Jewish population, and Sephardic communities compose about 37%.
		Perhaps the greatest divisions since the time of the division between the Sadduccees and Pharisees two millennia ago are the divisions within the Ashkenazic community that have arisen in the past two centuries, ever since the Enlightenment and the Renaissance influenced Jews from northern and eastern Europe.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Jewish_denominations (2031 words)

	Jew - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Defeats in the Jewish-Roman Wars in the years 70 CE and 135 notably contributed to the numbers and geography of the diaspora, as significant numbers of the Jewish population of the Land of Israel were expelled and sold to slavery throughout the empire.
		The advent of the Jewish Enlightenment (see Haskalah) of the 1700s and the subsequent emancipation of the Jewish populations of Europe and America in the 1800s, changed the situation, allowing Jews to increasingly participate in, and become part of, secular society.
		The patriarch Abraham was a migrant to the land of Canaan from Ur of the Chaldees.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Jew (5353 words)

	Israel - Jewish Ethnic Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The division of Jewish Israelis into ethnic groups is primarily a legacy of the cultural diversity and far-flung nature of the Jewish Diaspora: it is said that Jews have come to modern Israel from 103 countries and speak more than 70 different languages.
		These class divisions seemed to coincide with ethnic divisions: certain kinds of ethnic groups were overrepresented in the lowest classes.
		For utopian thinkers, the persistence of Jewish ethnic groups was troubling enough; their stratification into a class structure was unthinkable.
	countrystudies.us /israel/48.htm (201 words)

	A Journey To The Truth
		Early Jewish philosophy was influenced by the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, and Islamic philosophy.
		Called the Jewish New Year because it celebrates the day that the world was created, and marks the advance in the calendar from one year to the next, although it occurs in the seventh month, Tishri.
		Synagogues are a Jewish houses of prayer and study, they usually contain separate rooms for prayer (the main sanctuary), smaller rooms for study, and often an area for community or educational use.
	www.ajourneytothetruth.com /Judaism.htm (7685 words)

	Jewish ethnic divisions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jewish ethnic divisions refers to a number of distinct Jewish communities within the world's ethnically Jewish population.
		One reason is that most African and Asian Jewish communities use the Sephardic prayer ritual and abide by the rulings of Sephardic rabbinic authorities, and therefore consider themselves to be "Sephardim" in the broader sense of "Jews of the Spanish rite", though not in the narrower sense of "Spanish Jews".
		The emergent Jewish community among the Igbo in Nigeria, perhaps as many as 30,000 strong (although many of them maintain a belief in the Messiahship of Jesus and adhere to basic tenets of Christianity that are mutually exclusive of normative Judaism).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_ethnic_divisions (3118 words)

	JEW : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The current Jewish population is over 14.5 million, the majority of whom live in the United States and Israel.
		Following the Age of Enlightenment and its Jewish counterpart Haskalah, a gradual transformation occurred where many Jews came to view being a member of the Jewish nation as separate from adhering to the Jewish faith.
		The most commonly used terms to describe ethnic divisions among Jews currently are: Ashkenazi (meaning "German" in Hebrew, denoting the Central European base of Jewry); and Sephardi (meaning "Spanish" or "Iberian" in Hebrew, denoting their Spanish, Portuguese and North African location).
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Jew (6268 words)

	Jewish denominations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although there are numerous Jewish ethnic communities, there are several that are large enough to be considered "predominant." Ashkenazi communities compose about 42% of the world's Jewish population, and Sephardic communities compose about 37%.
		Perhaps the greatest divisions since the time of the division between the Sadducees and Pharisees two millennia ago are the divisions within the Ashkenazic community that have arisen in the past two centuries, ever since the Enlightenment and the Renaissance influenced Jews from northern and eastern Europe.
		This view is an extension of the traditional Jewish position that observance of the mitzvot is a matter of progression toward perfection, rather than an "all or nothing" proposition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_denominations (2064 words)

	Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jewish population growth is currently almost zero percent, with a 0.3% growth from 2000 to 2001.
		Jewish Renewal, a recent North American movement, was begun by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a Hassidic rabbi, in the 1960's.
		Jewish holidays, mostly festivals (haggim), celebrate revelation by commemorating different events in the passage of the Children of Israel out of slavery in Egypt to their return to the Land of Israel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judaism (9808 words)

	Important.ca Judaism, Basic Jewish Beliefs
		The word Jew is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or a member of the Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes.
		Contrary to popular belief, Jewish people do not simply say that "God chose the Jews." Jews believe that they were chosen for a specific mission; to be a light unto the nations, and to have a covenant with God as described in the Torah.
		The question is far from settled and is one of the recurrent tensions in Israeli politics and in the divide between Orthodox vs. Reform (or Conservative) Judaism.
	www.important.ca /jewish_beliefs_judaism.html (2087 words)

	sociology - Jew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The waves of immigration to the United States at the turn of the 19th century, massacre of European Jewry during the Holocaust, and the foundation of the state of Israel (and subsequent flight of Jews from hostile Arab nations) all resulted in substantial shifts in the population centers of world Jewry during the 20th century.
		Since the Jewish Enlightenment (see Haskalah) of the 1700s and the subsequent emancipation of the Jewish populations of Europe and America in the 1800s, Jews have increasingly participated in, and become part of, secular society.
		In the Diaspora, in almost every country the Jewish population in general is either declining or steady, but Orthodox and Haredi Jewish communities, whose members often shun birth control for religious reasons, have experienced rapid population growth, with rates near 4% per year for Haredi Jews in Israel, and similar rates in other countires.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Jew (4130 words)

	Lists of Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For more on who is considered Jewish, see Who is a Jew?
		List of Jewish Members of the National Academy of Sciences the United States
		List of Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society the United Kingdom
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_jews (151 words)

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