What is the difference between a Zionist and a Jew?
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hellooo - the Jews do not "occupy" Israel - another myth.  A Zionist is someone who believes that just like EVERY OTHER person on the planet, they deserve a homeland where they can fell free and safe.
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The Jew-Palestine conflict is more about land than religious beliefs.  The fight goes back to biblical times - to the story of Jacob and Esau (brothers).  Jacob stole Esau's birthright (blessings, land, etc) by deceiving their father.  \nEverything was passed to Jacob (from whom the Isrealites descended), including the land that now belongs to Isreal.  The Palestinians descended from Esau, and believe that the land rightfully belongs to them.  This is why extremists don't recognize Isreal as a valid State.  \nThis is of course a very simplified explination of this incredibly complicated situation.
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As far as I know, there is no difference, it is just what they choose to call the church. They all belive in the same things and whatnot. I really think there is no difference, and fo as long as I have been Lutheran (which is my whole life) I have never heard that a Zion lutheran is any different.
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a rabbi is a teacher and spiritual leader of the congregation.  a cantor is a professionally trained musician, also knowledgable in jewish law, but functions more as the leader of services for the congregation.
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Aliyah (עלייה, "rising") is the name for migration of Jews to Israel.\nZionism is the ideology who supports Israel as a Jewish state. The Zionists were the Jews who built Israel.
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Semites are middle eastern people and include Arabs and Israelis.  The Jews in America kind of co-opted the term so they could accuse people of picking on them.  One stupid girl reporter from the US actually asked Anwar Saddat if he was "anti-Semitic".  Pres. Saddat told her that would be foolish of him since he was a Semite.
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Arabs are sons of Abraham, Jews on the other hand is a religion not a race. We call people Jews because their religion is Judaism, and NOT because they are Israelites.
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There are several Semitic peoples. However the term "anti-Semitic" is a term that specifically means a hatred of Jews.
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Someone who believes that the Messiah won't come until all the origional boarders are restored in Israel. That's why Jordan on the other side of the Dead Sea is so secure.\nZionism is a political movement and ideology that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated over 3,200 years ago and where Jewish kingdoms and self-governing states have existed up to the 2nd century. While Zionism is based in part 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 Europe and many parts of the Muslim world during the 19th Century. 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 is generally considered 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 Labor Zionism. Thus, the term is also sometimes used to refer specifically to the programs of these ideologies, such as efforts to encourage Jewish emigration 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 whitewash anti-Semitism (as in the Polish anti-Zionist campaign).
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He said those who claim to be Jews. To answer this we have to define what a Jew is. When the scripture was written the word Jew meant Judah. Just Judah a member of the tribe of Judah only and not all the tribes of Israel. So what he is saying is their will be those who claim to be Jews(Judahies thus Israelites) and are not but do lie. So if you are not a seed of Judah and call yourself a Jew then your a liar. This is who it's talking about, it also say HE will make them the synagogues of Satan, b/c of their false claims.
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Just like every other country on the planet, they are both. The Israelis do some very wonderful and humanitarian things and they also do some very inhumane things. No country can be evaluated in such "yes or no" terms.
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A Zionist is someone who supports the Israeli government on religious and political grounds.\n\nWhy would you assume that they want to destroy America? You're been hanging around too many paranoid conspiracy theorists. Next think you know you'll be telling us the Holocaust didn't happen. Come on, I'm as opposed to war and oppression as the next guy, but it's ridiculous to blame the whole world's problems on a single nation. Besides, the Israeli government has made some positive steps towards establishing peace in the Middle East in the past year. Give them a break and stop being paranoid and xenophobic.
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thats funny. but the truth of the matter is that jews are decended of the Isralites that lived in biblical israel over 2000 years ago and the father of both jews and most arabs is the Abraham of the bible. Both are refered to as semitic peoples. they are from the area but they are two compleatly different peoples.
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Although one cannot convert to become a member of a race, for example one cannot convert to become an Oriental or an African-American, one who converts to Judaism does, indeed, become fully a Jew. Similarly, if one converts from Judaism to another faith, one is no longer a Jew.\n\nYou cannot believe in two opposite, mutually exclusive ideas simultaneously. Judaism and Christianity believe in opposite, mutually exclusive ideas, and you cannot be a Jew and a believer that Jesus was the Christ at the same time.\n\nIsraeli is a Nationality, Judaism is a Religion, and Being Jewish is being part of a people who practice Judaism
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That is  a very good question and the answer is a little confusing. The problem is that people often get confused between Judiasm and Jews. To be Jewish does NOT mean you follow the Jewish religion, instead it is a group of people. Kind of like just because you are Indian does not mean you are hindu, or if you are arabic it does not mean you are muslim (unless it is the law of your country) \n\nNow before the birth of Christ, the Jewish(reffering to the group of people) did follow the same religion, which can be called the "Jewish" religion, because they where Jew and that was their religion. Now, before Christ was born, as you know from reading the scriptures, their where prophesies about his coming. Some believed and some did not believe he was coming. When Jesus Christ was born he taught many new things and gave new revelations. Thus came Christianity, though if it was called that at the time, I am not sure. Those who did not believe he was the Savior and still live by the ways before Christ and do not follow His new teachings broke off and are today reffered to as "Jewish"\n\nThose who followe Christ are Christians. Those who are Jewish by blood are not neccesarily Jewish by religian, You can be jewish by religion even if you are not Jewish by blood. Jesus was born to Jewish parents and He is how Christianity started. Remember, back then Jewish and Christianity were intertwined and not distinctively seperate.\n\nI know it is confusing. But basically, the coming of Christ and the belief in whet He taught is what seperates the 2 religions.
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They are the 'chosen people.' This means that Jews are chosen for the responsibility of obeying the 613 commandments, not for priviledges. Every other human is seen as righteous in the eyes of the Jews, as long as they obey the Noahide Laws (which are much fewer than 613!)\nJews are 'chosen people' not because they are special in any other way apart from the fact they are (Orthodox Jews anyway) descendants of Abraham, and are a race as well as a religion.
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Zionism is a political movement and ideology that supports a homeland for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated over 3200 years ago and where Jewish kingdoms and self-governing states existed at various times in history. While Zionism is based in part 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 Europe and the Muslim World during the 19th Century . 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.