Friday, 10 February 2012

The Jews

I have heard so many things about Jews.. some people say Jews people are bad and vice versa.. this is the background of the Jews that I have search.




Origins
The Jews or in also known as Yehudi are a nation and an nonreligious group, originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation. The original name for the people we now call Jews was Hebrews. The word "Hebrew" is first used in the Torah to describe Abraham. The word "Jew" (in Hebrew, "Yehudi") is derived from the name Judah, which was the name of one of Jacob's twelve sons. Judah was the ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel, which was named after him.


Who is Jews?
 More than 13 million people are now identified as Jews, with roughly six million living in the United States and five million in Israel. Jews come in all shapes, sizes and nationalities. For example, there are black Jews from Ethiopia, Chinese Jews from Shanghai and Indian Jews from India. Practices and beliefs among Jews range from those who call themselves Jews but have nothing more to do with the religion or culture to rigidly Orthodox who strictly observe ancient Jewish precepts. The Jewish movements have different interpretations of the Torah, which lead to different rituals, spiritual practices and beliefs.

First, traditional Judaism maintains that a person is a Jew if his mother is a Jew, regardless of who his father is. The liberal movements, on the other hand, allow Jewish status to pass through the mother or the father if the child was raised Jewish. Thus, if the child of a Jewish father and a Christian mother is raised Jewish (or even just adopts Jewish identity as an adult, the child is a Jew according to the Reform movement, but not according to the Orthodox movement. On the other hand, if the child of a Christian father and a Jewish mother is not raised Jewish, the child is a Jew according to the Orthodox movement, but not according to the Reform movement. The matter becomes even more complicated, because the status of that interfaith child's children also comes into question. 

 Second, the more traditional movements
do not always acknowledge the validity of conversions by the more liberal movements. A more liberal movement might not follow the procedures required by the more traditional movement, thereby invalidating the conversion. For example, Orthodoxy requires acceptance of the yoke of Torah (observance of Jewish law as Orthodoxy understands it), while other movements would not teach the same laws that Orthodoxy does and might not require observance. The Conservative movement requires circumcision and immersion in a Mikhail, which is not always required in Reform conversions.


Jewish languages 

Jewish languages are the various languages and dialects (such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-persian, Ladino, Judeo-Aramic, Judeo-Arabic) that developed in Jewish communities around the world. Hebrew, the holy tongue, has been the main intellectual and liturgical language of the Jewish people throughout their history. However, it is only one of many languages employed by the Jews of the Diaspora over the millennia. Since ancient times, beginning with Aramaic, various Jewish vernacular languages have come into existence.

this is the example of their language,



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