Judaism in America

  1. jewish desire for a jewish nation
    zionism
  2. britian revieved control of palistine and allowed limited immigration of jewish population
    balfour declartation
  3. day of atonement
    yom kippur
  4. harvest celebration
    sukkot
  5. mixture of spanish and hebrew
    sephardic. southern spain and mediteranean
  6. central europ, speak yiddish. mixture of german and hebrew
    ashkenazic
  7. 4 categories in US
    • 1. orthodox-most traditional.
    • 2. conservative- roots in germany. conserving tradition
    • 3. reform- largest in the US. wants to modernize judaism.
    • 4. reconstructionist-open to secularism. more open to the world
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Judaism in America
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Judaism in America
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