Sunday, October 7, 2007

Religious Terms: Judaism

Your blog and presentation needs to discuss the history, beliefs, and practices of your assigned religion. You may wish to consider reporting on some of the terms in this blog post.

The words below were found in E.D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy.

bar mitzvah
Conservative Judaism
Day of Atonement
Hanukkah
Hasidism
kosher
matzo
menorah
Messiah
monotheism
Orthodox Judaism Passover
Purim
rabbi
Reform Judaism
Rosh Hashanah
synagogue
Talmud
Torah
yarmulke
Yom Kippur

Terms that World Literature students studied in the past that were not found in Hirsch's Cultural Literacy:

Bat Mitzvah
Sabbath
Shavout
Sukkoth
Holocaust
Abraham

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