What is Judaism? The answer depends on who you ask. Many of the differences within Judaism result from conflicting interpretations by scholars or rabbis. To fully understand Judaism, you must at least appreciate the history of the Jewish people, its importance to Western civilizations, as well as th...
As violence continues in the Middle East, the roots of the conflicts in the area can be seen to originate from World War I. This is important to understanding the modern Arab-Israeli conflict as the culmination of more than a century of hatred on the part of Arabs to compromise with the existence of...
Israel became a nation about 1300 B.C., two thousand years before the rise of Islam. The people of modern day Israel share the same language and culture shaped by the Jewish heritage and religion passed through generations starting with the founding father Abraham. Since the Jewish conque...
Violence touches all of us. Its roots are deep and entangled around issues related to race, gender, class, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and economics, among others. Violence pervades our past, shapes our present reality and threatens our future. Violence is not far removed from our li...
Your first friends as a child are the kids that live in your neighborhood. You can ride your bike or walk to their house. Their backyard is your backyard. You share everything, or so you think. My friend, Erin and I were your typical, inseparable pair of friends "after I took the oath to accept...
Why do people become terrorists? What is Terrorism? Terrorism is a catastrophic event that makes people live in fear. If you cause fear, then you are a terrorist. Many people become terrorist because some hate the United States; others hate the way we live, and our government. There are al...
Misleading Religion When the term crusade is used in the media, people tend to think that it is in reference to a "holy war." However this is far from the truth. Throughout time wars have been waged with the claims of a religious purpose, but if looked at more closely, the actual wars were fought b...
The five major Jewish bodies Messianic Jews Messianic began with Apostles. Messianic Jews believe that Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth is the promised Messiah of the Jewish scriptures. They still believe in maintaining a Jewish expression of their Faith. There are thousands of Messianic Jews. ...
Prior to the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, important promises were made to both the Arabs and the Israelis. In order to receive Arab backing against the Ottoman Empire in WWI, the MacMahon-Hussein correspondence in 1915 mapped out the land that Britain was to cede to the Arabs upon allied victory. In ...
I am going to be writing my research paper on the ongoing conflict between the Arabs and the Israelis. These two groups of people have been fighting from as far back in time that the history books go, but for my paper I will just concentrate on the past 200 or so years. This argument has its roots ...
