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Judaism - One of the first known monotheistic religions, likely dating to between 2000-1500 B.C., Judaism is the native faith of the Jewish people, based upon the belief in a covenant of responsibility between a sole omnipotent creator God and Abraham, the patriarch of Judaism's Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh.
For much of the 20th century, Jewish-Christian relations in the United States were defined mostly as the growing affinity between Reform Jews and liberal “mainline” Protestants, which includes, among others, Presbyterians and Episcopalians. Mainline Protestants and liberal Jews alike adhered to liberal religious, social, and political ...
Other religions share a common root of Judaism; all religions are of the same tree with Judaism as the trunk. [9] The religions are not needed for Jewish self-understanding, but to fail to recognize the nature of the branch religions is to fail to properly understand the world and, in effect, God’s providential plan.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that the Ministry of the Interior should register as Jews 24 people who converted to Judaism under the auspices of the Reform and the Conservative Movements, in Israel or abroad. The decision was accepted by a majority of 9 out of 11 judges. One judge rejected outright the recognition of non-Orthodox conversion ...
Judaism portal. v. t. e. Religious pluralism is a set of religious world views that hold that one's religion is not the sole and exclusive source of truth, and thus recognizes that some level of truth and value exists in other religions. As such, religious pluralism goes beyond religious tolerance, which is the condition of peaceful existence ...
According to Orthodox Judaism, Jewish law, or halakhah, includes 613 commandments given by God in the Torah, as well as rules and practices elaborated by scholars and custom. Jewish law covers ...
According to Orthodox Judaism beliefs, both the Written Law and the Oral Law are of divine origin, and represent the word of God. The Orthodox movement holds that the information (except for scribal errors) is the exact word of God and does not represent any human creativity or influence. For the Orthodox, the term Torah refers to the Written ...
