I need to interview a Jew for my world religions class, so if you don't mind, answer these questions for me.
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you ask a lot of good questions. And as any good question the answers are never simple or the same ;)\n\n1. Its a ballencing act. On the one hand you have traditions and practices that are thousands of years old some which are very dear to you and those around you. On the other you have modern society that often clashes with views on everything on how one should model their lives to how one should dress. naturally you try to find a ballence where ever posible, but sometimes you need to decide with one or the other.\n\n2. It depends sometimes on the day of the week. Often like I said I feel the outside world stops me from leading a more Jewish life, but if I were to say things I do. It would be everything from celebrating hollidays, praying, studing Torah, humanitarian projects, even to what I read in my free time.\n\n3. The Holocuast is an auful cap on what was 1,800 years of Europen anit-semitism. If anything I have learned is that Jews are never compleatly safe anywere in the world, this includes America. This leads me to the State of Israel in my opinion Israel has only one big positive asset. That is that Jews who have no where to go will always have a home. This was key after the Holocaust, for the Arab ews and the Jews of the Soviet Union. If their is any reason to support the existaince of a Jewish state of Israel that is it.\n\n4. Education is key. If you have a question dont be afriad to ask. With all the messages that are floating around today about Israel about Jews is critical to get both sides so one can make an informed decition. Jews are not afraid to disscus or talk about issues as long as the questions are asked in a respectful manner. \n\nPs sorry for the spelling mistakes I was in a bit of a hurry \n\nhope his helps\n\n\n\n\nok,\n\nMy name is David Gratvol  I am 20 years old I was born in a suburb outside Houston, Tx. and I have been lucky enough not to experiance any serious anti-semitism in my life. \n\nalso I will try to get some others to answer this question if you want.
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For sure you can.  You know, it's funny - though I'm actually a Jew by birth (and therefore not considered a convert, but rather a returnee), I, like you, am a former Christian.  In Jewish communities, the Rabbi (lit. "Teacher") typically counsels people on a wide variety of issues, from technical questions on Jewish religious law, to personal life decisions.  I couldn't see one turning away someone seeking advice (though it is customary to discourage conversions for a variety of reasons, the least of which being that Judaism teaches that you don't need to be a Jew just to get on G-d's good side) just because they weren't Jewish.  And if he does, the guy's probably just a jerk; nothing to do with religion.\n\nWhat kind of advice are you looking for?  Is it something that could possibly be given online?  If so, the Lubavitchers have a website where you can talk with their spiritual counselors live one-on-one - www.askmoses.com.  They get questions from Jews and Gentiles alike, all the time.  And while they're not the most mainstream of groups (even among orthodox Jews), most of the advice you could get from them would probably be pretty solid.\n\nThen there's Aish HaTorah - check out their site at http://www.aish.com ...I'm sure there's contact info on there somewhere.\n\nAnd if you question is specifically related to issues involving Judaism and Christianity, I would recommend contacting the people at Jews for Judaism, http://www.jewsforjudaism.com .\n\nIf none of those options are doing it for you, simply seek out and contact your local synagogue.\n\nNote that there are significant differences in the Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox approaches to spirituality.  I'm strictly old-school, so I would recommend seeking out your local orthodox rabbi if you're in need of advice, especially on spiritual matters.  But basically I'm just mentioning this so that you know that you might get completely different advice from a Jewish advisor, depending on their particular religious bent.\n\nOne last thought - if you're looking for advice because Christianity doesn't really speak to you, but you're still interested in Biblical wisdom, there's a growing group of people who believe in Torah but don't actually convert to Judaism.  A lot of them are former Christians (who left the fold after reading their "Old Testament" a little too carefully).  Anyway, these folks follow the covenant G-d established with Noah (the archetypal righteous non-Jew), and the Noachide Commandments (not the same as the Ten Commandments, though there are some in common).  They call themselves Noachides or B'nei Noach (Children of Noah, as opposed to Jews who are referred to as B'nei Yisroel, the Children of Israel), and they are in every sense of the word Torah-observant gentiles.  Personally, I think they're pretty cool.  You can read more on the Noachide stuff here: http://www.aish.com/literacy/judaism123/The_7_Noachide_Laws.asp\n\nI hope you find whatever it is you're looking for.
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From a Jew, from a Jewish perspective:\nWe pray to God.\nWe ask for forgiveness in out prayers.\nWe do teshuva- which literally means "to return" - to repent and arrive at a different spiritual and emotional place that is even higher and holier than before.\nWe perform deeds of lovingkindness - visiting the sick, helping the poor, giving extra charity especially - which is required by Jewish Law anyway.\n\nRepentance is a very important topic about which many Jewish sages have written.  It's possible to get very in depth here, so I just tried to get the basic info.
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Let us see under Religion & Spirituality what your enquiries are:\n\n1. everyone is laughing at me. why?\nAsked by mavrick182000 - 11 answers - Religion & Spirituality - 1 hour ago - Open  \n\n2. i practice the oldest profession... you know what it is?\nAsked by mavrick182000 - 34 answers - Religion & Spirituality - 2 days ago - Open  \n\n3. am i an idiot?\nAsked by mavrick182000 - 34 answers - Religion & Spirituality - 2 days ago - Open  \n\n4. i want my flippers to be brushed good... who will volunteer?\nAsked by mavrick182000 - 1 answer - Religion & Spirituality - 4 days ago - Open  \n\nNow what kind of answers are you looking for? Pardon me for my ignorance, but I am not sure if you are really asking for a serious answer or wasting time! Good Luck!!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_actors_and_actresses\n\nPlease take time to select the best answer
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Yes, of course you could call a Jewish person a Jew.  You can also use the word Jewish. \n\nHowever, it is very offensive to most Jews to have the word "Jew" used as an adjective.  So, "That man is a Jew" is okay.  "The Torah is the Jew Bible" is offensive.  Always use "Jewish" in that situation.  And if  you find this confusing, you can use "Jewish" all the time and never be wrong.\n\nBTW, don't be misled by the earlier comment that Orthodox Jews do not consider converts to be Jewish.  That person doesn't know what she is talking about.  What *is* true is that some Orthodox rabbis do not recognize conversion ceremonies that are performed by non-Orthodox rabbis.  In other words, it has only to do with the nature of the ceremony, not whether the person was born Jewish.\n\nGood luck on your paper.  If you havent found the Website Shamash.org yet, you might want to look there for information.\n\nGood luck!!
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wow.do you have something against jewish?????????   the joke was funny... question:how are ya gonna choose the best answer????lol
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There is an excellent magazine that comes out every two months that can help.  It is called "Israel My Glory."  You can preview some articles to get a feel for it, and subscribe at the following link:\n\nhttp://sites.silaspartners.com/CC_Content_Page/0,,PTID306608|CHID556140|CIID,00.html\n\nThey really help to get a Jewish perspective of the Christian faith, and its Jewish roots.\n\nAlso, if you'd like, Alfred Edersheim was a biblical scholar who write four excellent resources.  Many Christian bookstores carry his works as a four-volume set.  He was Jewish, and had converted to Christianity.  His works can help you along those lines as well.\n\nHope that helps!
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a letter by Ghandi:\n\nSeveral letters have been received by me asking me to declare my views about the Arab-Jew question in Palestine and the persecution of the Jews in Germany. It is not without hesitation that I venture to offer my views on this very difficult question.\n\nMy sympathies are all with the Jews. I have known them intimately in South Africa. Some of them became life-long companions. Through these friends I came to learn much of their age-long persecution. They have been the untouchables of Christianity. The parallel between their treatment by Christians and the treatment of untouchables by Hindus is very close. Religious sanction has been invoked in both cases for the justification of the inhuman treatment meted out to them. Apart from the friendships, therefore, there is the more common universal reason for my sympathy for the Jews.\n\nBut my sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?\n\nPalestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.\n\nThe nobler course would be to insist on a just treatment of the Jews wherever they are born and bred. The Jews born in France are French in precisely the same sense that Christians born in France are French. If the Jews have no home but Palestine, will they relish the idea of being forced to leave the other parts of the world in which they are settled? Or do they want a double home where they can remain at will? This cry for the national home affords a colorable justification for the German expulsion of the Jews. \n\nBut the German persecution of the Jews seems to have no parallel in history. The tyrants of old never went so mad as Hitler seems to have gone. And he is doing it with religious zeal. For he is propounding a new religion of exclusive and militant nationalism in the name of which many inhumanity becomes an act of humanity to be rewarded here and hereafter. The crime of an obviously mad but intrepid youth is being visited upon his whole race with unbelievable ferocity. If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province. \n\nBut if there can be no war against Germany, even for such a crime as is being committed against the Jews, surely there can be no alliance with Germany. How can there be alliance between a nation which claims to stand for justice and democracy and one which is the declared enemy of both? Or is England drifting towards armed dictatorship and all it means?\n\nGermany is showing to the world how efficiently violence can be worked when it is not hampered by any hypocrisy or weakness masquerading as humanitarianism. It is also showing how hideous, terrible and terrifying it looks in its nakedness.\n\nCan the Jews resist this organized and shameless persecution? Is there a way to preserve their self-respect, and not to feel helpless, neglected and forlorn? I submit there is. No person who has faith in a living God need feel helpless or forlorn. Jehovah of the Jews is a God more personal than the God of the Christians, the Musalmans or the Hindus, t
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i bet its jewish r u askin cuz of elliot yamin on american idol? plz e-mail me and anser back!\ndurvillian@yahoo.com
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Go here, it might help.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
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I was raised as a Christian for safety reasons, but when my family moved to Florida we openly practiced Judaism again. \n\nI have no love for my fellow "Jews," most of whom have are converts, or are of mixed descent. The communities in Florida such as the Chabad on the Space Coast, and Temple Israel which is a reformed synagogue farther inland were as welcoming as a hornets nest. \n\nMy family and I tried to fit into their way of thinking, but they never accepted us.\n\nWe are Jews by birthright, and my family's lineage is pure on both my paternal and maternal sides. Unfortunately we weren't accepted by the Chabad because our birthright was not purchased, and the Reformed temple wouldn't accept us because most of the congregation had Nazi blood and was run by the daughter of a high level Nazi official. \n\nThere are very few left today are can truly be called Jews (despite what you may believe it is a birthright NOT a religion, and it takes ten generations/100 years before a convert's family/descendents are considered Jews). Unfortunately those that remain are well hidden and very far between.\n\nI don't believe that this generation's "Jew Haters" actually know who they hate. Their anger is simply directed at the group most obvious to them, and this is often their own people who have simply forgotten their past. \n\nFrom what I have seen, it is not the Nazis, or even the KKK and other such radical groups that cause most of the problems. It is the tightly-nit and inbred communities currently posing as Jews that create the hostility. They are unwilling to accept those who are not raised with their mindset, and while refusing to allow acceptance, try to force people to stay. \n\nMy family left Florida because we were not accepted by the Local "Jewish communities," they closed off the jobs, and it was near impossible to find work. Now that we have left they are the biggest problem. We are still alive and safe, but it is only by Hashem's hand and his alone that we survived the trip. \n\nI am sorry if I have offended anyone, but Nazis and other such groups are no longer the greatest threat to "True Jews", they are only the most publicized. It is the communities of Nazi-Jew descendents, Lilith worshipping converts, and mumzirm who pose as Jews that have become the true Jew haters. They are also the reason I have little respect for other "Jews" and no concern about the welfare of such people.
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the best website to learn about judiasm is most definitely www.chabad.org! it has everything you want to know about judiasm but from the chabad (a sect of Judiasm) perspective, which is very positive and inviting and intereseting too! But basically, the core of our religion was summed up by Maimonidies in the 13 principles of faith. they are 1)G-d created the world 2)G-d is one 3)G-d is unlimited by physical form or nature's limits 4)G-d was before the world and will be after - eternal 5)G-d is the only one that we can pray to 6)the words of a real prophet are true (there are ways to test a real prophet) 7)Moses is the greatest prophet of all time 8)Every part of Torah was given to Moses at Mt. Sinai 9)The Torah hasn't and won't ever change 10)G-d knows the thoughts and actions of everyone 11)G-d has His system of rewarding for good and punishing for bad (that we can't understand) 12)Messiah is coming and we must await him every day! 13)those who deserve it will be resurrected in the times of Messiah\n\nThose are the core faiths, basically G-d made us and gave us a Torah (Bible) that we listen to, not becasue it makes sense but because that is who we are, and we do our best to follow the commandments, thereby attaching ourselves ot G-d and bringing the messiah closer! In the Messianic time there will be the completion of Torah, with nothing blocking us from observing it completely (such as the current lack of a Temple). All Jews will gather in the Holy Land and serve G-d together. There will be peace in the land, and most importantly, "the world will be filled with knowledge of G-d like the water that covers the sea!"\nI hope this helps you. If you ahve questions, go to www.askmoses.com, where you can chat with a Chabad rabbi or woman one-on-one and ask any question that you wany. Good luck!\n\nP.S. to ammok: can i tell you something personal? my family is strictly observant, and we have, thank G-d, 8 kids who all attend Jewish school at the cost of about $50,000 per year. That is nearly our family's salary, making us not a very rich family at all. In fact, we go without many of the pleasures that non jews have, like new cars etc.
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Just ask him, he is Jewish and having a Bar Mitzvahs.
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Messianic ""Jewish"" congregations of course welcome visitors. No, a person does not have to be born a Jew to join a messianic congregation. \n\nAs a matter of fact, the majority of their members were not ever Jewish up until recently, and this is also true about their messianic ""rabbis."" Many of them change their names to something that sounds stereotypically Jewish, in order to better target those they want to convert to Christianity.\n\nAs the success of this newest technique in missionizing the less knowledgeable Jews increased, the percentage of membership of ex-Jews as members of their messianic congregations has also increased, now running about 50-50.\n\nIt is also interesting to note that a large number of people converting TO Judaism have come to real Judaism from having been exposed to Messianic ""Judaism."" \n\nWhat you should expect at a messianic congregation is that all references to Christian theology has been changed to make it sound more Jewish, and therefore more pallatable to their targets. They will only refer to Jesus as 'Yeshua' (which would not have been his name), they will say 'moshiach' instead of 'christ,' they will say 'synagogue' instead of 'church,' and on and on, in keeping with the techniques described in the book Understanding Church Growth by Donald MacGavran, who helped the idea of Indiginous Cultural Evangelism get started. \n\nThe services will sound very Jewish, usually a lot of (mispronounced) Hebrew, and prayers will have been changed to add the Christian theology of Jesus to them, again, to make the service more familiar to their targets.\n\nRemember that these messianic congregations need member$hip, and so they also target those Christians who want to know more about the ""Jewish roots"" of Christianity as well, so you will be very welcomed.
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First off, do some research on Judaism. A great site is www.jewfaq.org. There is some very informative information there. Learn about the different sects of Judaism to see which you like the most. Secondly, contact a rabbi in your area. But don't be discouraged if he turns you away (Orthodox Rabbis mainly do this now); it is custom to turn the convert away 3 times before starting the conversion process. You will probably have to take an Intro to Judaism Class to start off with, then you will have to study for at least a year(so you can experience all of the holidays). Then, depending on what sect, if you are male you will have to be circumcised (or if you already are you will have to do a symbolic drop of blood), then be immersed in a mikvah(a ritual bath), and also go in front of of Beit Din, a group of three that you go up in front of and asks questions to affirm your faith and make sure you are ready to convert. It is a long process; I haven't done it yet but I heard it was definelty worth it.\n\nThey will definetly be accepted.  If they choose to they can have a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, you don't have to though.  Once they have converted, they are a full fledged Jew.  They are regarded as full a Jew as one who is born one.
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That would be interesting. Being a Jew and not a Christian I can honestly say that would surprise me and would require me to seriously rethink some of my practices in life but I do not think it will change how I am as a person. Though I would wish he/she/it would leave some instructions on what we should do IE how to be a good person stuff like that. That being said I will still continue leading a moral life I just may redefine what morality is.