(Sacred Destinations, 2005) Orthodox Jews maintain that God gave the Torah, in its entirety, to Moses at Mount Sinai. ... (International Fellowship of Christians and Jews of Australia, 2014) Praying at the Wall is the primary activity for Orthodox Jews, particularly men and with the belief that the divine presence is still resident in some ways behind the stones, they often place written prayers and petitions in the cracks in the walls. ... (Sinclair, 2009) Often classified as "pure" pilgrims, Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox Jews consider the Wall as a focal point to observe and partic...

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Struggle The Catholic Church experienced a split between the eastern and western parts of Europe. ... During the 600s and 700s eastern centers were captured by the dynamic new faith of Islam, with only Constantinople remaining unconquered. ... Medieval Christianity in the West, unlike its eastern counterpart, developed into a single entity. ... During the first centuries of Islam its law and theology, the basic orthodox Islamic disciplines, were developed. ... In the 11th century, attacks on philosophy by orthodox Islamic thinkers, notably the theologian al Ghazali, had much to do with the eve...

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"The civil emancipation of the European Jewry, a process complicated by lingering anti-Jewish sentiment, evoked different reformulations of Judaism in western and eastern Europe. ... In eastern Europe, modernization of Judaism took the form of cultural and ethnic nationalism- It emphasized the national language and the creation of a modern secular literature and culture, thus aiding the development of the secular ideology of Zionism (the creation of a modern Jewish society in the ancient promised land). ...

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Introduction The epistle1 to the Hebrews is explicit in its presentation of the High Priest motif of Jesus Christ. The authorship of Hebrews has been in dispute; while some hold to Pauline2 authorship others maintain that it was written by an unknown author.3 While this is not the place to dig into the argument, I agree with the view that the author is unknown and will therefore use the term 'the author' in this paper. The recipients of the book are said to be Christian Jews and not non- Christian or Essene priests as some posit but the position that it is written for non-Christian...

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After learning about the Holocaust, I've asked myself many times how this could have happened. Why would anyone believe it's acceptable to massacre an entire people? This is my reasoning for writing my paper on how Christian theology influenced anti-Semitism. Much of the Holocaust appears to have it's beginning with Christian theology. I will begin my paper with the early writings of Christians and continue chronologically until after World War II. ...

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