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- Abraham [r]: Biblical patriarch and founder of monotheism. [e]
- Aramaic [r]: A Semetic language spoken in much of the Middle East outside the Arabian Peninsula in ancient times. [e]
- Authors of the Bible [r]: Individuals who have authored or co-authored literature that has appeared in the various scriptural canons of Judaism and of Christianity. [e]
- Christianity [r]: The largest world religion which centers around the worship of one God, his son Jesus Christ, and his Holy Spirit. [e]
- Circumcision [r]: In male humans, removal, by cutting, of the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis; may be for cultural, medical, or religious reasons [e]
- Cyrus the Great [r]: (580-529 B.C.) First Archaemedid emperor; founded Persia by uniting two Iranian tribes, the Medes and the Persians. [e]
- Egypt [r]: A country in the northeastern corner of Africa, bordering Sudan, Libya, the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea [e]
- Genesis [r]: First book of the Torah and the Hebrew Bible. [e]
- Haredi Judaism [r]: The most religiously orthodox variants of Judaism with Lithuanian, Hasidic and Sephardic Haredi Judaism. [e]
- Hasidic Judaism [r]: A stream within Orthodox Judaism, originating in the 18th century, that emphasizes spirituality and role of the rebbe (teacher). [e]
- Hebrew Bible [r]: consists of religious works categorized into the Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings). [e]
- Hebrew language [r]: A semitic language used by ancient Israelites and Jewish communities, and revived as a modern language by Israeli Jews. [e]
- Herschel Grynszpan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Historical Jesus [r]: As distinct from the Jesus of Christian faith, the Jesus described by critically-aware historical studies. [e]
- Jewish views of Jesus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Judaism [r]: Monotheistic religion of the Jewish people based on the Torah. [e]
- Karaites [r]: a Jewish movement characterized by the predominant reliance on the Tanakh as scripture and the rejection of the Oral Law of rabbinic Judaism [e]
- Law [r]: Body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognized, and enforced by a controlling authority. [e]
- Literature [r]: The profession of “letters” (from Latin litteras), and written texts considered as aesthetic and expressive objects. [e]
- Lithuania [r]: Former Soviet republic (population c. 3.6 million; capital Vilnius) bordered by Latvia, Belorussia, Poland and the Russian Federation, and with a short coastline on the Baltic Sea. [e]
- Monotheism [r]: Belief in only one God. [e]
- Morocco [r]: An Arab monarchy of western North Africa, nonaligned but generally moderate, with a slow-growing economy [e]
- Moses [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Orthodox Judaism [r]: The branch within Judaism that stresses strict interpretation and practice of the Torah as expressed in the Talmud. [e]
- Pantheism [r]: A religious and philosophical doctrine that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent abstract God; or that the universe, or nature, and God are equivalent. [e]
- Portugal [r]: South-west European republic (population c. 10.7 million; capital Lisbon) on the western side of the Iberian Peninsula, with a long Atlantic coastline to its west and bordering Spain to the north and east. [e]
- Qur'an [r]: The sacred book of Islam, consisting of revelations to Muhammad. [e]
- Religion [r]: Belief in, and systems of, worshipful dedication to a superhuman power or belief in the ultimate nature of existence. [e]
- Roman Empire [r]: The period from the ascension of Augustus Caesar to the fall of the Empire. [e]
- Rosh Hashanah [r]: The Jewish High Holiday commonly known as the Jewish New Year. [e]
- Sephardi Jews [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Bible [r]: A collection of literary works that are essential to a religious group or a section of society; usually associated with Judaism or Christianity. [e]
- Yeshiva [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yiddish language [r]: West Germanic language commonly spoken by people of Jewish heritage originating from Central and Eastern Europe and now settled in several parts of the World. [e]
