What is the Jewish belief?  What are the major rules, and the brief description of Jewism?
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To follow up on the question given by the previous person answering. The Torah (the 5 books of Moses / Genesis - Deuteronomy) forbids offering sacrifices at a place of your own choosing.  So, with the Temple having been destroyed it is forbidden for us to participate in animal sacrifice until we again regain control of the Temple Mount.\n\nFor some websites that will give you more details on Judaism see these websites:
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kabbalah is jewish mysticsm and is mainly based on the zohar or the works of the ariza"l a kabbalist which lived about four hundred years ago. there are many people who claim to know the kabbalh and use it out for thier personal benefit, like the kabbalah center, however they are a farce.\nfor jewish mysticsm visit chabad.org
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jews dont believe in hell because they believe that everyone goes to heaven so there is no need for hell and the rabbi said the truth that the jews believe that no one knows what will happen after death. jews dont believe in life after life unless that is something a certain jew believes in. but jews follow the torah and no where in the torah does it say in this life you are human and in your next life you are dog! so jews only believe that all goto heaven and the rest is up to you to determine
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Anti-Semitism is the hatred of Jews.  Zionism is the belief that Jews should be allowed to have a homeland on the location of their ancient homeland.  Therefore, no Zionism is more like the polor-opposite of Anti-Semitism.
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do you mean RELIGION?  im jewish - a religion based on morals and learning, not on obey something that was written thousands of years ago!
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Jews do believe in a concept of heaven and hell, though the differences between theirs as apposed to Christians and Moslems is beyond the scope of this paragraph. If you’re asking why we do at all (I am not going to prove whether G-d exists or not that too will take too much time.)  But basically it boils down to we are placed in this world to over come our individual challenges; mainly the perfection of the human body and soul though study and developing good character traits. For that to have any meaning their must be a system of reward and punishment and the ideal is that everyone reach their full potential and get their full portion of heaven. Just as a side note Jews don’t believe in the concept of eternal damnation for 99.9% of the population we see hell as more difficult way of refining the soul that could have been done here on earth.
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There is no single response to your question.  The only belief all Jews share is that God is One -- not three.\n\nGenerally speaking, there is no emphasis on the afterlife.  There is nothing written about it and no one has been there and returned to tell us about it.  Our total focus is on our obligations to God and how we live our lives today.  Our God is just and we all expect to receive just punishments for our sins -- there is no eternal punishment in Judaism.\n\nYes, many Jews believe in reincarnation.  Yes, many Jews believe in resurrection.  "Belief" is a very personal thing in Judaism, but we are judged on our actions, not our beliefs.\n\nYes we worship God in much the same way Christians worship, but many of our prayers are taken directly from the Bible and recited in Hebrew.  When we pray together, nearly all prayers are in praise of God.  We seldom ask Him to do something for us other than to heal the sick.  We seldom point out the evils of others in our services -- we are there simply to praise our God and to reaffirm that we must strive to do what He wants of us.\n\nYou can learn much more at these web sites:\nhttp://beliefnet.com/index/index_10005.html\nhttp://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm\nhttp://www.jewsforjudaism.org/\nhttp://whatjewsbelieve.org/\nhttp://becomingajew.org/\nhttp://www.asknoah.org/\nhttp://judaism.about.com/\nhttp://www.aish.com/\n\n.
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Read the book Judaism for dummies which is written by a rabbi and peer reviewed. My local rabbi bulka wrote a book called religion from A to Z whch was meant to be generic but had jewish slant.\n\nIm not jewish but doies not prevent me from respecting other faiths..
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The answer is partly religious and partly economic.\n\nThe Jews are historically one of the tribes of Israel and the popular belief amongst Christians is that it was the Jews who decided that Jesus (who was himself a Jew) should be put to death by crucifixion. This lead to centuries of dislike of jews by European christians.\n\nAlso from biblical times onwards Jews became prolific traders and merchants throughout Europe and the new worlds, displaying a talent for business, but a reputation for being mean and penny pinching. This is a consequence of any immigrant population becoming succesful in front of the indigineous people. It breeds jealousy.\n\nTherefore as the years rolled on, and jews became more distributed around the world, but simultaenously very succesful in business and politics resentment also built up and they became figures of hate and ridicule in most european countries.\n\nClearly that came very much to a head follwoing the German surrender in the first world war, where many Germans believed that they had been betrayed by Jewish German industrialists, when the German Army hadnt actually been defeated.\n\nThis led to the rise of the Nazi's and the systematic murder of 6 million german jews. Not as often reported but just as horrific was a similar campaign against Jews in Communist Russia. \n\nAfter WW2 the world community decided to give the Jews a homeland, back where they originally came from in a British adminstered area of North Africa called Palestine.\n\nSome of the other Arab tribes, who have now defined themselves as Palestinians took exception to this and have waged a 40 year war against the jews (Israelis). They have been helped in this by just about every other Arab country, but the Israelis have prevailed.\n\nThe sad thing is that Jews and Arabs both have a right to occupy that land as hiostorically thats where they both originated from.
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YEP FOREVER JEW IT IS THE BEST RELIGION. I LOVE BEING JEWISH AND YES ALL JEWISH PEOPLE ARE CLOSELY BONDED. I AGREE WITH YOU ON EVERYTHING YOU JUST STATED
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Try these 2 sites:\n\nhttp://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/21/21h.580/www/bz/bz7.jpg\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/jewish.html
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Besides for a bit of resentment for missionaries that go after the young and the ignorant. I have a fairly positive outlook on Christianity today. Some of my best friends are Christians. As for Judaism we believe that a person can be Christian and go to heaven.  Our religion states that all a gentile needs to do is believe in G-d and be a moral person. On the other hand Christianity is unacceptable for a Jew in part due to the Christian concept of the trinity it for us (and only us) would equate to idol worship and it is better to sacrifice ones life than to do this. For more info email me.
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Zionism is a political movement and an ideology that supports a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated and where Jewish kingdoms and self-governing states existed at various times in history. While Zionism is based heavily upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern movement was originally secular, beginning largely as a response to rampant antisemitism in late 19th century Europe. After a number of advances and setbacks, and after the Holocaust had destroyed Jewish society in Europe, the Zionist movement culminated in the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.\n\nSince the founding of the State of Israel, the term Zionism has come generally to mean support for Israel. However, a variety of different, and sometimes competing, ideologies that support Israel fit under the general category of Zionism, such as Religious Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, and Labour Zionism. Thus, the term is also sometimes used to refer specifically to the programs of these ideologies, such as efforts to encourage Jewish immigration to Israel. The term Zionism is also sometimes used retroactively to describe the millennia-old Biblical connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, which existed long before the birth of the modern Zionist movement. In some cases, the label "Zionist" is also used improperly as a euphemism for Jews in general by those wishing to white-wash anti-Semitism (as in the Polish anti-Zionist campaign).\n\nThis article is intended to be a survey of the history and objectives of the Zionist movement, not as a history of Israel nor of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The history of the various forms of opposition to Zionism is discussed in the article Anti-Zionism.\n\nThe desire of Jews to return to their ancestral homeland has remained a universal Jewish theme ever since the defeat of the Great Jewish Revolt, and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman Empire in the year 70, the defeat of Bar Kochba's revolt in 135 CE, and the dispersal of the Jews to other parts of the Empire that followed. Due to the disastrous results of the revolt, what was once a human driven movement towards regaining national sovereignty based on religious inspiration, over centuries tradition and broken hopes of one "false messiah" after another took much of the human element out of messianic deliverance and put it all in the hands of God. Although Jewish nationalism in ancient times have always taken on religious connotations, from the Maccabean Revolt to the various Jewish revolts during Roman rule, and even during the Medieval period when intermittently national hopes were incarnated in the "false messianism" of Shabbatai Zvi, among other less known messianists, it was not until the rise of ideological and political Zionism and its renewed belief in human based action toward Jewish national aspiration, did the notion of returning to the homeland become widespread among the Jewish consciousness.\n\nThe Haskala of Jews in European countries in the 18th and 19th centuries following the French Revolution, and the spread of western liberal ideas among a section of newly emancipated Jews, created for the first time a class of secular Jews, who absorbed the prevailing ideas of rationalism, romanticism and, most importantly, nationalism. Jews who had abandoned Judaism, at least in its traditional forms, began to develop a new Jewish identity, as a "nation" in the European sense. They were inspired by various national struggles, such as those for German and Italian unification, and for Polish and Hungarian independence. If Italians and Poles were entitled to a homeland, they asked, why were Jews not so entitled?\n\nBefore the 1890s there had already been attempts to settle Jews in Palestine, which was in the 19th century a part of the Ottoman Empire, inhabited (in 1890) by about 520,000 people, mostly Muslim and Christian Arabs
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Please Gd, i hope people do NOT believe what they are told in Answers.yahoo.com! Most of what people here teach others about Jews and about Judaism is simply wrong, and derived from the prejudicial viewpoint of Christianity, and not even close to what Judaism really believes.
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The Messianic Jews meld Christian theology with Jewish traditions. They consider themselves Jews who believe in Jesus Christ but mainstream Jewish denominations do not consider them such.\n\nThey attend church on Saturday, the seventh day of the fourth commandment, and they meet in synagogues.
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The Sabbath, or day of rest, is a common feature of Jewish and Christian religions.  Jews preserve the original Sabbath of the Hebrew and later Jewish faith, Saturday (dusk Friday to dusk Saturday), the 7th day of creation in the Genesis narrative.  Jews are enjoined by Jewish Law to observe specific practices on the Sabbath including avoidance of work in favor of reflection, prayer, and study.  For most Christians (other than Seventh Day Adventists), the belief that Jesus' resurrection occurred on a Sunday shifted the Sabbath to Sunday, and the Christian Sabbath is more about a period of time when it is obligatory to attend church services than a separate way of daily living, as seen in the Jewish faith.  Both Christians and Jews vary widely from sect to sect and individual to individual as to the importance and strictness of Sabbath-keeping customs.\n\nHope this helps.
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Christians use the creation story from the Jewish Bible -- Genesis.  The main difference is that Jews do not believe in "original sin."  We believe that all humans are created as a blank slate -- we become good/evil according to our choices and actions.\n.