THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS BY RICHARD VALANTASIS
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This 5 page paper discusses the discovered text of Thomas. Ricahrd Valantasis discusses and analyzes the content of this work. Focus of this paper is on saying #77, its interpretation and application. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: MBgoth.rtf

The Haftorah Portion Of The Book Of Nehemiah, Chapter 8: Interpretive Analysis
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3 pages in length. If history did not repeat itself, we would not be equipped - as human beings or as a religion - to deal with the occurrences trying once again to unravel the thread of faith. Revisiting the Haftorah from Nehemiah Chapter 8 on this holiest of days, we are reminded that from suffering comes strength and from strength comes rebirth. There is perhaps no greater alliance of people who have experienced this lesson time and time again than the Jews, which we have both embraced and anguished over at the same time as we rise to the challenge of continuing forward as a cultural faction. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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The Hasmonean Rule
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This 5 page paper considers a turning point in Jewish history: the establishment of the Hasmonean Rule. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: HVhasmon.rtf

The History and the Development of the Karaite Sect
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A 7 page paper which examines the history and development of the Karaite sect. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAkarait.rtf

The Holocaust and the American Media
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This 16 page paper provides evidence for the supposition that America was informed about the Holocaust and failed to do anything about it. Several New York Times articles from the era are cited. Pictures and cartoons from the time period are discussed. Bibliography lists 18 sources
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THE INFLUENCE OF ZOROASTRIANISM ON JUDAISM
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This 3 page paper discusses the influence of the ancient religion called Zoroastrainism on Judaism. Examples and evidence given to support this claim. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MBzoro.rtf

The Israelites did not sacrifice their children
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This 5 page paper looks at the biblical issue of child sacrifice. Both sides of the controversy are discussed. The paper supports the idea that child sacrifice was not truly engaged in. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Jew in the Modern World : A Documentary History
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When considering the issue of the Jewish State and the imperative of its formation as a central component of the Jewish identity, the perspectives of men like Theodor Herzl and Ahad Ha-Am provided differentiated views on the subject. This 5 page paper considers the perspectives of both Herzl and Ahad Ha-Am, especially as they relate to being a citizen in the state, a member of a family, a participant in a particular national or cultural tradition. Depictions by both Herzl and Ahad Ha-Am are evaluated in the text of the book The Jew in the Modern World. No additional sources cited.
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The Jewish Response to Nazism in the Weimar, Nazi Germany and Nazi-Occupied Europe
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This is a 12 page paper discussing the Jewish response to Nazism from the 1920s to early 1940s in Germany and Europe. From the time after the First World War and the German defeat until the end of the Second World War and the defeat of the Nazis, the Jewish response to Nazism changed in intensity in accordance with the increasing persecution of the Jews by the Nazis and in perspective through political and economic means and eventually through armed and spiritual resistance. Politically, the Jews were well represented within the Weimar Republic which was the established form of governance after World War I. The Nazi Party used the poor Germany economy and the Jewish membership in the Weimar in their opposition and push against the Republic. Throughout the 1920s, the Nazi opposition against the Weimar and the Nazi open declaration to remove the Jews from Germany led many Jews to leave Germany for other parts of Europe, Britain and North America. When the Weimar ended in 1933 and Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party had gained the political power in Germany, the Jewish business community on a national and an international basis devised an economic boycott of Germany with the hopes of ending the Hitler regime. This however only resulted in the Nazi’s further restrictions against the Jews and their transfer from their homes into Jewish ghettos throughout Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe. Even within these ghettos, Jews responded with increasing armed and spiritual resistance which further intensified with the Nazi transfer of the Jews into the concentration and extermination camps as part of the process of Hitler’s “final solution”. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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The Jewish Temple and Sanhedrin During the First Century A.D.
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A 9 page paper which examines the Temple as an institution, the physical building as remodeled by Herod the Great, a description of the activities conducted there, and the origin and role of the Sanhedrin in Judaean society. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TGtemsan.rtf