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| monotheistic religion of the Jewish people. |
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| the promised deliverer of the Jewish nation prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. |
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| jewish scholar or teacher like a priest in the Catholic religion. |
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| a day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jews from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday. |
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| religious fast that happens the last 10 days of penitence. |
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| a lesser Jewish festival, lasting eight days |
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| e building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction. |
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| largest city and the capital of Israel is a holy sanctuary for jewish christians and muslims. |
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| Collection of jewish law. |
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| discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews. |
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| a small Jewish community in Eastern Europe |
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| (formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live. |
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| the act of liberating or the state of being liberated. |
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| to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh. |
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| an organized massacre, especially of Jews. |
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| an ancient Jewish mystical tradition based on an esoteric interpretation of the Old Testament |
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| a liturgical prayer, consisting of three or six verses, recited at specified points during eachof the three daily services and on certain other occasions. |
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| the presence of God on earth or a symbol or manifestation of His presence. |
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| A shtiebel is a place used for communal Jewish prayer. In contrast to a formal synagogue, a shtiebel is far smaller and approached more casually. |
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| a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, waiting on the rector, etc. |
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| a medieval mystical work, consisting chiefly of interpretations of and commentaries on the Pentateuch:the definitive work of Jewish cabala |
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| a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outsideIsrael but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's |
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| a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power,forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. |
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