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10th Grade
04/27/2014

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Torah
Definition
Law of god that was revealed to Moses
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Messiah
Definition
A leader of a certain group
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Rabi
Definition
A Jewish scholar
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Sabbath
Definition
Annual midnight meetings of witches/devils
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yom kippur
Definition
Most solemn religious Jewish
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Hanukkah
Definition
A Jewish festival that lasts up to 8 days
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Synagogue
Definition
a building where Jews hold congregation meets
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Jerusalem
Definition
A holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
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Talmud
Definition
Literally instruction
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Anti-Semitism
Definition
The discrimination against or prejudice or hostility
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Shtetl
Definition
A jewish village or small-town community in eastern europe.
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Ghettos
Definition
a certain part of a city in which all jews were required to live
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Liberation
Definition
The seeking of equal status or just treatment
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Emaciate
Definition
To become abnormally thin
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Pogroms
Definition
an organized persecution or extermination of an ethnic group
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Kaballah
Definition
the ancient jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the bible
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Kaddish
Definition
people whom recite the prayers
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Shtibl
Definition
A place used for jewish prayer
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Beadle
Definition
a ceremonial officer of a church
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Mystical
Definition
Inspiring a sense of spiritual mystery
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Zohar
Definition
The chief text of the jewish kabbalah
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Gestapo
Definition
secret state police in nazi germany
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Shavuot
Definition
a major jewish festival held
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Fascism
Definition
authoritarian and nationalistic right wing system of government
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