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Name at birth: MosheThe most important figure in Judaism, Moses parted the Red Sea to free his people and brought them the Ten Commandments on stone tablets. His story appears in the biblical book of…Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner is a real estate developer and newspaper owner who became nationally famous as a top adviser to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump. Jared Kushner is a graduate of Harvard…Gish Jen Biography
Gish Jen novelistBorn: 1955 A second-generation Chinese American, Jen was raised in the large Jewish community of Scarsdale, New York. She received a degree in English from Harvard…Galilee
(Encyclopedia) GalileeGalileegălˈĭlē [key], region, N Israel, roughly the portion north of the plain of Esdraelon. Galilee was the chief scene of the ministry of Jesus. The Sea of Galilee (see…heaven
(Encyclopedia) heaven, blissful upper realm or state entered after death; in Western monotheistic religions it is the place where the just see God face to face (sometimes called the beatific vision…World Religions: What People Believe and Where
Top of Page Source: iStockHow many religions are there in the world? If you ask ten different religious studies experts, you’ll probably get twenty different answers. The majority of people follow…God
(Encyclopedia) God, divinity of the three great monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as many other world religions. See also religion and articles on individual religions…Cohen, Leonard Norman
(Encyclopedia) Cohen, Leonard Norman, 1934–2016, Canadian songwriter, singer, and poet, b. Montreal, B.A. McGill Univ., 1955. He initially wrote poetry, publishing his first collection, Let Us…Hasidim
(Encyclopedia) Hasidim or ChassidimHasidimboth: häsēˈdĭm, khä– [key] [Heb.,=the pious], term used by the rabbis to describe those Jews who maintained the highest standard of religious observance and…modernism
(Encyclopedia) modernism, in religion, a general movement in the late 19th and 20th cent. that tried to reconcile historical Christianity with the findings of modern science and philosophy. Modernism…Trending
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