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| | American Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Many American Jews also study Hebrew, the language of most Jewish religious literature, the Tanakh (bible), Siddur (prayerbook), and the modern State of Israel. | | | During the early 19th century, many secular Jews from the former Holy Roman Empire arrived in the United States and primarily became merchants and shop-owners. | | | In recent years, there has been a noticeable trend of secular Jewish Americans returning to a more religious Orthodox lifestyle, called Baal teshuva, although it is not clear how widespread or demographically important this movement is. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews
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| | American Jews and Israel's Development |
| | Zionism, that is, Israel, becomes an avowal of faith, becomes a substitute religion for American Jews. | | | Israel was the esteemed mouthpiece in the matter of Judaism and religion, granted a monopoly to Orthodox Judaism, and with that able to decide over the concerns of the Diaspora. | | | In synagogues, the Israeli flag was hung next to the American Star-Spangled Banner; passages were inserted into the Sabbath and holy day prayers that dealt with Israel's welfare and security. |
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http://www.tekla-szymanski.com/engl2israel.html
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| | Apostasy Among American Jews |
| | 78% of the steadfast Jews, 96% of those with Gentile spouses, 100% of those with no religion and 98% of converts to Christianity were accepting of intermarriage. | | | In an effort to keep up with the norm, many Jews are finding it easier to adopt their way of life and even their religion in order to be assimilated. | | | The first and most easily identified group is those that were born Jewish and still Judaism claim it as their faith. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles3/apostasy.htm
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| | Digital History |
| | In later years, many other congregations "Americanized" their rituals by playing organ music during services, permitting men and women to worship side by side, allowing men to prayer without the traditional prayer shawl and head covering, and establishing confirmation ceremonies for boys and girls. | | | These efforts sensitized American Jews to their distinctive identity and encouraged Jewish communities to establish their own schools, hospitals, and synagogues and appoint foreign rabbis as religious leaders. | | | American Jews avidly formed community and charitable institutions. |
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=31
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| | immigration |
| | Americanism is the spirit behind the welcome that America has traditionally extended to people of all races, all religions, all nationalities (in Cohen 1972, p. | | | A 1912 survey indicated that only seven of 100 Reform rabbis had officiated at a mixed marriage, and a 1909 resolution of the Central Council of American Rabbis declared that "mixed marriages are contrary to the tradition of the Jewish religion and should be discouraged by the American Rabbinate" (Meyer 1988, 290). | | | The argument was sometimes phrased in terms of an emphasis on the 'similarity of cultural background' of prospective immigrants, but again the underlying logic was that ethnic groups already in the country had legitimate interests in maintaining the ethnic status quo. |
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http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/books-immigration.html
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| | American Muslims vs. American Jews - article by Daniel Pipes |
| | This Islamic-flavored totalitarianism holds that if only Muslims lived in strict accordance with the sacred law of their faith, the shari'a, they would regain the wealth and strength that was theirs at the height of Islam's glory in the Middle Ages. | | | These take their place alongside 19th-century myths of Jewish world domination and fantasies of revenge and physical extermination ("O Muslim, servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him"), often phrased in terms reminiscent of Nazi racial invective ("sons of monkeys and pigs and worshippers of evil"). | | | The use of religious discourse and sacred images to support violent crimes can be found in all religions, but that does not make all their followers extremists. |
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http://www.danielpipes.org/article/308
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| | American Jews and Evangelical Christians: Anatomy of a Changing Relationship - Carl Schrag |
| | Among Jews who welcome Evangelical support, a common argument is that Israel's present-day needs must take precedence over potential problems in the future. | | | Yet it says that divine promises to Jews - to bless those who bless them, to return them to their land - remain intact. | | | The scene repeats itself at houses of worship across the United States: a spiritual leader recites prayers in front of packed pews, including prayers for the safety and security of Israel. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/cjc/cjc-schrag-s05.htm
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| | "If anything distinguishes American Jews today within the context |
| | This modern American Jewish polity is often noted as a quintessential "civil religion," a secular belief system that elicits deeply-felt allegiance of religious depth and proportion. | | | Zalman Posner, in championing the Orthodox Chabad Lubavitcher religious world view and bemoaning the fact that there are too many secular Jews who have been misguided by concepts of human universalism, addresses the religious root in the conflict between "Christian" identity and Jewry's traditionally separatist, and intolerant, core: | | | Do American Muslims, American Hindus, and American Buddhists use the word in reference to their creeds? |
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http://jewishtribalreview.org/20pocul1.htm
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| | Increasingly, Thoughtful American Jews Are Re-Thinking Zionism |
| | Noted the letter delivered by the American rabbis: “These prosecutions will never lead to the kind of Israel we want and desire: a Jewish state that celebrates the prophetic voice which has animated our people for centuries. | | | As a consequence of this artificial flattening and deadening of discourse, enforced by rage and even violence, the vital connection between Jewish culture and the struggle for social and economic justice is coming apart. | | | The letter also was signed by, among others, Rabbi David Saperstein, who heads the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and Scott Sperling of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. |
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http://www.wrmea.com/archives/May_2004/0405067.html
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| | The Revealer - A Review of Religion and the Press |
| | Angela Zito is chair of NYU Religious Studies and co-director of the Center for Religion and Media. | | | Omri Elisha is an anthropologist and an postdoctoral associate at the Center for Religion and Media who specializes in contemporary American Christian culture and faith-based initiatives. |
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http://www.therevealer.org/talkingheads.php
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| | American Jews |
| | They cannot send their children to a Jewish day school. | | | In addition, we must and do support Israel. | | | Among the 10% of Jews who live a Torah-true life and who are called “orthodox” (Greek for straight belief) a great deal of money is spent on Jewish education despite the lesser average income of orthodox Jews as compared to all Jewish income. |
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http://www.jbuff.com/c052302.htm
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| | True Torah Jews Against Zionism |
| | Although there are those who refuse to accept the teachings of our Rabbis and will continue to support the Zionist state, there are also many who are totally unaware of the history of Zionism and its contradiction to the beliefs of Torah-True Jews. | | | Under the guise of "love of Israel", the Zionist "statesmen" seduced many Jews to replace devotion to the Torah and its Sages with devotion to the scoundrel who founded Zionism. | | | Here is the correct link to read why True Torah Jews do not participate in Israeli Elections. |
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http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com
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| | Introduction |
| | It is an American story about people searching for ways to remain connected to tradition while creating their own identities and place in the American culture of their time. | | | Departing from the traditional authoritative voice of the Museum, Creating American Jews makes the point that history resides in people's stories and everyday experiences, and is told through diaries, letters, and oral histories, powerfully emphasizing personal stories and a personal voice. | | | Creating American Jews is more than a Jewish story. |
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http://www.nmajh.org/exhibitions/caj/intro1.htm
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| | Commentary Magazine - Jews and American Politics, by Stephen D. Isaacs; American Jews: Community in Crisis, by Gerald ... |
| | ...An interesting facet of the growing "conservatism" among some Jews is that their politics are coming into line with their religion... | | | ...Moreover, since the masses of American Jews, as Strober recognizes, are definitely moving in a particularist direction, the future is likely to witness heightened Jewish political activism and militancy... | | | ...In his concluding chapter, "Jewish Power: Taking a Stand as Jews," Isaacs applauds the "open exercise of Jewiish influence" in American political life, and the fact that Jews are "expressing themselves openly, enthusiastically, and brashly" on matters of concern to the Jewish community... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V59I2P98-1.htm
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: It's time for American Jews to open their eyes by Ben Shapiro - Jun 16, 2004 |
| | Leftists like to say that all religious people are on the same side, but no bigger lie has ever been told. | | | It was the communists who were secularists -- their hatred for God led thousands of Jews to the gulag. | | | It is President Bush and his administration that have staunchly maintained their support for Israel, even in the face of withering attacks from the world community. |
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/bs20040616.shtml
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| | Donations of Materials to AJHS Collections |
| | American Jewish religious life from New Age to Orthodoxy. | | | American Zionism and American links to the land of Israel | | | We have defined our collecting strategy to include documentation on Jewish communal life, Jewish organizations, and the activities of American Jewish individuals on behalf of, and in relation to, Jewish communities in the Western hemisphere. |
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http://www.ajhs.org/reference/donate_materials.cfm
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly Opinion Crisis for American Jews |
| | I am not saying that Sharon and Netanyahu can be changed. | | | Why is American Jewish support for Israel more fanatical than even anti-Arab sentiment among Israelis? | | | Whereas American Jews want to be recognised as Jews and Americans in America, they are unwilling to accord a similar status as Arabs and Palestinians to another people that has been oppressed by Israel since the beginning. |
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/586/op2.htm
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| | American Jews Visit Lithuania |
| | There are still some Jews there but not many. | | | In Kaunas we visited the area where the Jewish ghetto was and we went to Fort IX, which was a prison where the brought Jews from many countries to kill them. | | | There are no Jews in the city of Sejny. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/lithuania
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| | The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - Engage American Jews, all else has failed the Arab world |
| | More important, it is naive and self-defeating to see American Jews as mere puppets of Israel. | | | American Jews can tell Israel what to do because they pay for Israel's economic well-being, and have pressured Israel many times in the past to change its policies, as we saw during the 1956 Suez crisis and, more recently, during the Oslo process. | | | American Jews have made it repeatedly clear they agree on one thing: the need to assure the safety of Israel. |
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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?article_ID=7776&categ_ID=5&edition_id=10
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| | Some Thoughts about Jews, IQ and Nobel Laureates |
| | The hallmark of the Ashkenazic Jew is intelligence. | | | The denominator in (4) re-normalizes the distribution for Jews. | | | is the number of Jews in the U.S.; N |
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http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/dialogue.htm
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| | Press Releases - Rabbi Lapin and Gary Bauer Launch American Alliance of Jews and Christians |
| | American Christians consistently stand by Israel, and while they ask nothing in return, they deserve friendship and support from American Jews. | | | Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the Alliance will unite Christians in support of Israel and work with American Jews and Christians on behalf of traditional values. | | | These values come from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Who gave Israel to the Jewish people and Who inspired the founding of America.” |
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http://www.towardtradition.org/pr_aajc.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - Survey: American Jews back Dem. candidates |
| | The survey included people who said they were Jewish, were born to a Jewish parent or raised Jewish and did not convert to another religion. | | | Jews also overwhelmingly oppose government funding for social service programs operated by religious groups, the survey found. | | | There are about 5.2 million Jews in the United States, according to National Jewish Population Survey released in September. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/polls/2004-01-12-jewish-poll_x.htm
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| | israelinsider: Views: American Jews Lobby against Israel |
| | The rot had its genesis with the Oslo Accords when Israeli leaders told Diaspora Jewish activists that in view of the "irreversible peace process", their lobbying was superfluous and even counter-productive. | | | Hopefully American Jews will vent their anger at the chutzpa and perfidy of those purporting to represent the Jewish community who lobby their Administration to pressure Israel on security issues. | | | It is Israeli citizens who will face the consequences of decisions made by their elected government whereas Diaspora Jews will not be called to make sacrifices on these issues. |
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http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/7119.htm
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| | The Solomon Project: Our Book: Jews in American Politics: Contributors |
| | His most recent book is In Search of American Jewish Culture. | | | He is the author or coauthor of five books in the fields of American Jewish history and Jewish political thought. | | | Steven L. Spiegel is professor of political science and associate director of the Burkle Center for International Relations at the University of California-Los Angeles. |
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http://www.thesolomonproject.org/book/contrib.php
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| | Open Letter from American Jews |
| | Welcome to a website for American Jews and other people seeking peace with justice for both Israelis and Palestinians... | | | Find out who we are and how we came about. | | | Read the Open Letter to our government signed by over 3800 American Jews. |
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http://www.peacemideast.org
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| | Jews in America Table of Contents |
| | The Author of the Declaration and the Architect of the Constitution | | | Statistics on American Jews in World War II | | | Women of Valor: How American Jewish Women Made Contributions to Jewry and the World |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/jewstoc.html
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| | Reform Judaism Magazine - Revolutionizing Judaism |
| | Judith Plaskow: One of American Judaism's foremost feminist theologians, Plaskow pushed feminist theology to address (rather than dismiss) Judaism and galvanized American Jews to recognize the exclusion of women from the central experiences of Jewish religious life, such as Torah study. | | | In 1970, she helped to found Ezrat Nashim, a Jewish women's group that advocated for gender equality within the Conservative movement and spearheaded the successful campaign for the Movement's ordination of women rabbis. | | | Her 1990 book, Standing Again at Sinai--a feminist analysis of essential Jewish concepts such as God, Torah, and Israel--was the first published Jewish theology written from a feminist perspective. |
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http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1079
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| | Silver Jews: American Water: Pitchfork Review |
| | But in the pauses, and in the obtuse phrasing of questions like, "Is the problem that we can't see, or is it that the problem is beautiful to me?": somehow you know what he means. | | | It's time to take off your clothes and skinny dip in the American Water. | | | Rose Melberg shares second solo LP, tiny tour |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/s/silver-jews/american-water.shtml
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| | Jews and the American Public Square |
| | Jews and the American Public Square was a five-year program of communal dialogue, research and publication designed to explore the theme of religion and the public square in the context of the American Jewish experience. | | | Alan Mittleman, Director of the Project, Dept. of Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Theological Seminary. | | | Jonathan Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish history and Chair, Dept of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies, Brandeis University. |
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http://www.cjcs.net
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| | Fun Facts About American Jews |
| | This is not the book to buy for a narrative of American Jewish history, but it is good for finding out who is a Jew, basic information on the American Jewish experience and fun facts. | | | Put together by the American Jewish Historical Society, this is an extraordinary encyclopedia tracing Jewish roots in America back to 1585, when Joachim Gaunse (Ganz) landed on Roanoke Island. | | | If you want to know about virtually anything related to American Jewish life in a hurry, then the American Jewish Desk Reference is for you. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/reviews/desk.html
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| | Jewish Heroes of America |
| | American Jewish Heroes and Heroines (From World War II to the Present), | | | American Jewish Heroes and Heroines (From 1900 to World War II), | | | Jews Served with Honor in the Spanish-American War |
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http://www.fau.edu/library/brodytoc.htm
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