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	Jew
		Those not born to a Jewish mother may become religiously accepted as Jews through a formal and usually difficult process of conversion, and they and their children are then accepted as Jews as well.
		All Jewish denominations welcome the return of any Jews who have left (or who have been raised in a faith other than) Judaism, and these individuals would not require a formal conversion, though they would be expected to abandon their previous beliefs and adopt Judaism.
		Karaite Judaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by reliance on the Tanakh as the sole scripture and rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and Talmud).
	www.askfactmaster.com /Jew (8966 words)

	Majors and Careers - Jewish Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To pursue Jewish Studies at IU, in short, is to be part of a comprehensive and unusually caring program of studies, carefully built over three decades, which encourages students - both Jewish and non-Jewish - to engage in the study of a rich, complicated and variegated civilization.
		Jewish studies graduates who move up the ranks of Jewish federations and communal organizations, who are rabbis, or directors of Jewish schools can earn up to $100,000 or more in annual salary.
		Throughout their IU careers, Jewish Studies majors are eligible to apply for conference funding to attend conference related professional and academically to Jewish Studies.
	www.indiana.edu /~udiv/majors/majorinfo.cgi/83 (824 words)

	Jewish Names in the World of Medieval Islam
		Jewish law states that any paper that has G-d's name on it must be treated with special care and must be disposed of in specific manners.
		In addition in appendix ``B'' there is a large list of Jewish men's names extracted by Julia Smith from ``A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Genizia.
		In addition to a number of names which list a woman as the mother of a literal son there are others that list a woman as the mother of a quality such as Umm Thana meaning ``Mother of Praise''.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/names/Jewish/Cairo/index.html (3197 words)

	Jewish Arts
		The unadulterated essence of the Biblical narrative is John Bradford’s quest, as he paints the archetypical stories in all their starkness and simplicity.
		The stooped figure of Jacob is fruitlessly striding forward, caught in the embrace of a flying figure, one of its feet attached to the upper edge of the canvas.
		In an age of rampant assimilation and in the devastating shadow of the Holocaust, the Jewish people are growing strong culturally and religiously in a largely secure Diaspora and vibrant Jewish state.
	www.jewishpress.com /page.do/18726/Jewish_Arts.html (1517 words)

	The Zoroastrian-Biblical Connections -- Influence of Zoroastrianism in Other Religions
		In other words the political hope of restored Jewish Kingdom headed by a "Meshiach Yahweh" came to be associated with the prophetic and apocalyptic vision of a Kingdom of God in the End of Days.
		Judaeus Philo (30 B.C.-50 A.D.), Jewish philosopher and historian, A native of Alexandria, Egypt.
		He is the author of the recently published book "The Zoroastrian Doctrine and Biblical Connections." He has been a guest lecturer at various community centers and religious organizations in Kansas City, as well as at the Gatha Conference in California (1994), and the Zoroastrian Congress in San Francisco in 1996.
	www.zarathushtra.com /z/article/biblicalconnection.htm (3772 words)

	Book Club Reading Lists, 2004-2005
		A retelling of the life of the Jewish heroine follows the future queen from her youth as an orphan, her selection as the wife of a powerful Persian king, and the sacrifices she makes in order to save her people from annihilation.
		The diary of a German Jewish woman who was both the mother of a large family and a businesswoman during the 17th century.
		An unsparing memoir of Jewish life in Iran before the Revolution introduces readers to a world that is now mostly gone, with the author recalling trips to the market, visiting relatives, and the increasingly hostile behavior of her Islamic neighbors leading up to the overthrow of the Shah.
	www.jewishlibraries.org /ajlweb/resources/bookclub_lists04.htm (4560 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - News
		Israel is not exactly the homogeneous Jewish homeland -- marching side by side in righteous uniformity toward a common goal -- that many of its adversaries, and some of its most passionate supporters, would have us believe.
		In early 1943, the non-Jewish wives of Jewish men started to gather in Rose Street, Berlin, outside a welfare centre where their husbands were being held by the Nazis.
		Over the course of a week, dozens of wives, mothers, aunts, cousins and daughters appeared in the street in protest, first silently, then giving voice to their protest, until, miraculously, instead of being sent to the labour or concentration camps, the prisoners were released.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_list.aspx?articleGroupID=50 (2188 words)

	Making Biblical Women Visible
		If she is at all like the general reader, this book may indeed have accomplished its goal: presenting the new scholarship in the academy, on all biblical females—the unnamed as well as those with names—in a form that would be accessible, understandable, and meaningful for a wide audience, both in the academy and beyond.
		Straightforward as it may seem to list biblical women alphabetically, this task was complicated in a number of ways.
		Creating a listing for all the unnamed females was itself a challenge and produced another kind of comprehensiveness.
	www.bibleinterp.com /articles/BiblicalWomen.htm (2139 words)

	Amazon.com: The History and Varieties of Jewish Meditation: Books: Mark Verman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Verman begins with a study of the roots of Jewish meditation in ancient Israel and proceeds to explore the development of a number of meditation practices, including music and chanting, that enable practitioners to bridge the gap between God and themselves.
		Accordingly, special attention is paid to specific biblical figures and seminal passages, while much of the discussion concentrates on standard kabbalistic and hasidic sources such as the Zohar and the writings of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav.
		The History and Varieties of Jewish Meditation is a step in helping the reader incorporate the practices of this tradition into his or her own personal spiritual repertoire.
	www.amazon.com /History-Varieties-Jewish-Meditation/dp/1568215223 (914 words)

	Biblical Studies
		Biblical Studies Foundation's on-line annotated new English translation of the Old and New Testaments requires a browser that supports frames.
		Extensive annotated lists on biblical languages and texts, the Mediterranean social world and Philo of Alexandria.
		Cyber-journal of the Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research, a consortium of Jewish and Christian scholars devoted to exploring the Jewish background of the life and words of Jesus.
	virtualreligion.net /vri/bible.html (1617 words)

	.:: Welcome To The Jewish Ledger ::.
		He earned a second masters degree in Jewish Studies and rabbinic ordination with a concentration in Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Education from the Seminary in 1996.
		A: Dr. Karesh was approached in 2001 to write a book on the "Jewish Faith in America." She sought my co-authorship then, but I had just become senior rabbi at Temple Sholom and I didn't feel prepared to join in full partnership for this particular project.
		If someone were to read the entire book they would significantly increase their Jewish knowledge, and also have the ability to be guided for future productive study.
	www.jewishledger.com /articles/2006/02/02/news/news08.txt (1131 words)

	Women-Related Religion/Spirituality Email Lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BRIDGES is a moderated list that explores Jewish feminist identity and considers both Jewish and female existence and activism in relation to movements for change.
		ORTHODYKES is a list for Orthodox Jewish lesbians.
		PHOEBE-L, named for the biblical Phoebe who carried the letter to the church at Rome, is a list for all women seeking equality for women in the church: laywomen and clergy of all denominations.
	www-unix.umbc.edu /~korenman/wmst/f_rel.html (2205 words)

	Touro College
		All theses are also listed in UMI's print Masters Abstracts International, included in the ProQuest Digital Dissertations database, and preserved on microfilm in the UMI vault and at the Midtown Library.
		Index to Jewish Periodicals (Web) - With this index, you can search citations of English-language articles, book reviews, feature stories in over 160 journals on Jewish history, activity, and thought, and on contemporary Jewish and Middle East affairs back to 1988.
		Jewish People's University of the Air (JPUA) (audiotapes) - This collection of 304 audiotapes containing 25 courses totaling 333 half-hour lectures on Jewish studies is currently available at the Women's Building Library where there is a cassette player for your convenience.
	www.touro.edu /Library/GuidesTutorials/ResourceList-JewishStudies.asp (2300 words)

	Federation in the News: Are Republicans Gaining Ground In Their Efforts To Woo California Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With studies showing that California Jewish voters may be shifting allegiances from the Democratic Party to the GOP, it is believed that Jewish leaders are calling the meeting in an effort to better unite the Jewish vote for the upcoming presidential election.
		In New York, the state with the largest Jewish population, 71% of Jewish voters approve of the president's handling of Iraq -- compared with 66% of the overall electorate, according to an April 7 Marist College survey.
		Democratic activists remain convinced that, in the end, Jewish voters will come home to the party of their roots, particularly if 2000 Vice-Presidential nominee Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) is on the ticket.
	www.jewishla.org /News/html/1103-republicans.html (324 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - News
		Both of the major movements in modern Jewish culture, the Hebrew and Yiddish language revivals, began to build serious momentum in the middle of the 19th century in Russia.
		The Center for Jewish History (CJH), located in lower Manhattan at 15 W. 16th Street just off 5th Avenue, is a fascinating meld of five noted Jewish organizations who combined their resources in October 2000.
		The Dorot Jewish Division's Yiddish Theater Collection contains the materials assembled by many of the founders of the art form, from the notoriously flamboyant matinee idol and impresario Boris Thomashefsky to the comparatively sublime Bertha Kalich and the impossibly dignified Morris Morrison, as well as their young Harvard-educated aficionado, the bibliographer Edward Coleman.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_list.aspx?articleGroupID=44 (4136 words)

	Chicago Jewish News -- Jewish Chicago's Hometown Newspaper - Jewish Lists from CJN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As he reflects on Jewish life then and now, Cutler finds one main change, which he terms "the dispersal." "The Jewish aura of community is not the same as it was on Devon Avenue, on Roosevelt Road," he says.
		Katz, a Jewish educator on the staff of what is now the Community Foundation for Jewish Education, was part of the pilot project and the director of one of the first Melton schools, at the Northwest Suburban JCC in Buffalo Grove.
		Jewish members of Congress get together often for discussions and briefings on issues and bills, she notes, and to meet visiting dignitaries, such as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, during his most recent visit to the United States.
	www.chicagojewishnews.com /lists_jews2001.jsp (13161 words)

	Harnik's Happy House Of Books Jewish Fiction List
		But their pasts are intertwined, both being descendants of a family that immigrated to the U.S. at the turn of the century.
		Isaac is a blind Jewish physician revered for his skill as a healer and his sense of fairness who is called upon to solve the unsolvable.
		As the Jewish "greenhorn" rises from the depths of poverty to become a millionaire garment merchant, he discovers the unbearably high price of assimilation.
	www.harnikbk.com /jlit13.htm (720 words)

	American Jewish Life Magazine
		Instead, the midrash of Dinah, daughter of the biblical Jacob, became a bestselling sensation.
		The list of such titles continues ad nauseum into the most miniscule of biblical figures (Avishag, concubine to King David, got her own novel in 2002's cleverly titled Avishag).
		The effort to bring greater attention to the women of Jewish history, particularly the matriarchs of the Torah, is a noble one.
	www.atlantajewish.com /content/012006/books-princess.html (494 words)

	The American Journal of Biblical Theology
		His list of twenty-seven NT books was intended to serve as a guide to his churches, so that they would know what books were acceptable and which ones were not.
		Please note, there are many early church figures and documents that are not mentioned within this paper; as a result, in the proceeding pages I have provided a list of key documents, figures, scriptures, and a time-table that will further aid the reader in their study of the New Testament Canon.
		The following list is a semi-comprehensive list of early documents that were in circulation in the early church.
	www.biblicaltheology.com /Research/MartinezR01.html (5103 words)

	Divine Mediator Figures
		James R. Davila, Lecturer in Early Jewish Studies, for the honours course module DI3217 (postgraduate DI4217), "Divine Mediator Figures in the Biblical World," which was taught for the first time in the spring semester of 1998.
		The focus was on biblical, Jewish, and Greco-Roman traditions in the Second Temple period (c.
		The Crosstalk discussion list is devoted to the problem of the historical Jesus.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~www_sd/mediators.html (1730 words)

	UK Jewish Film Festival : top picks \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk
		Set in 1960s South London, it tells the story of 10-year-old Jewish cricket fanatic David Wiseman, the son of German refugees, whose dream of making the school team is hampered by the fact that he can’t play to save his life.
		Coming across as a king of Jewish answer to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, it stars Summer (sister of River) Phoenix as the title character, a Jewish girl from North London whose sister’s impending wedding puts even more pressure on her to get married.
		That tale is of Youzeck, who has encounters with a string of historical and biblical figures, including Noah and Salvador Dali.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/477_uk_jewish_film_festi.htm (737 words)

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		Even the word gematria comes from the Greek: Geometria - "the measurement of earth or land" comes from from ge "earth, land" + metria, from metrein - "to measure." Also, gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet, and its numerical value is three, or tria in Greek.
		They would add up the letters in a name or phrase and make good of use of their prodigious memories, coming up with a numerically equivalent verse or part thereof from the Bible, auguring the future and explaining the present and the past.
		There is only one full biblical verse that equals 767, and it is also from the Book of Genesis (31:45): "And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar." This comes as a culmination to the story of Jacob wooing his two future wives, the daughters of his Uncle Laban.
	www.jewishpeople.net (2458 words)

	BIBLICAL INSPIRATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Many modern Bible commentators deny that the biblical Isaiah wrote the entire book, claiming that it was written by two or more authors from different periods of time.
		The genealogies of Jesus in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 are figures of speech and not accurate records of Jesus’ physical and/or legal lineage.
		The authority of Jesus Christ, God speaking--not from heaven only, but with human lips--has given a sanction to every book and sentence in the Jewish canon, and blasphemy is written on the forehead of any theory which alleges imperfection, error, contradiction, or sin in any book in the sacred collection.
	www.wayoflife.org /fbns/biblicalinspiration2.htm (7982 words)

	Jewish Life and Culture - February 2006
		Rabbis Becher and Rietti are senior lecturers for the Gateways Organization, whose goal is to further Jewish education and raise Jewish awareness and pride for Jews of all backgrounds in an open atmosphere of mutual respect.
		In the Zohar, the Biblical narrative is transformed into a biography of God—a God who is equally male and female and whose union depends on human awareness and action.
		This is the second in a series of lectures moderated by Rosenbaum that addresses issues in Jewish life that are often overlooked or misunderstood.
	www.92y.org /content/jewish_listings_feb_06.asp (3771 words)

	History » Early Years \| AskMoses.com
		The Bible tells us that after G-d cursed him, he settled in the land of Nod, which was east of Eden.
		We find in Kabbalah many times that certain figures before Abraham are talked about as though they were Jewish—including Adam, the first man. We can understand that Abraham was the first Jew.
		According to the Chasidic interpretation of the story—no. As the biblical commentator Ibn Ezra explains, these people were shepherds.
	askmoses.com /article_list.html?h=173 (461 words)

	Issue 1:4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If you would like to be notified when new material is added please join the Journal of Biblical Studies mailing list.
		This report covers a project, begun in 1995, to produce a hypertext biblical commentary.
		The purpose is: To stimulate the production of and to publish, at affordable prices, hypertext and other new media resources for biblical scholarship and Bible study, which (i) respect the role of the various biblical canons as Holy Scripture for Christian and Jewish Communities (ii) represent accurate and careful biblical scholarship.
	journalofbiblicalstudies.org /issue4.html (972 words)

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