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The basis of Jewish law and tradition ("halakha") is the Torah (... known as the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses). According to rabbinic tradition there are 613 commandments in the Torah. Some of these laws are directed only to men or to women, some only to the ancient priestly groups, the Kohanim and Leviyim (members of the tribe of Levi), some only to farmers within the land of Israel. Many laws were only applicable when the Temple in Jerusalem existed, and fewer than 300 of these commandments are still applicable today.
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The recent attack on Jewish worshippers is not the first instance of anti-Semitic violence at Chabad's Bolshoya Bronnaya Synagogue, which is just miles from the Kremlin. The Synagogue was firebombed in 1992 while Chabad leaders were residing there, and a bomb was discovered and defused in 2000.
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This January, Jewish young married couples will have an amazing opportunity to enhance, enrich, and invigorate their relationships at the first ever JPrisms Marriage Enrichment Weekend Retreat at the newly rebuilt Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center in Tarrytown, NY. This unique Jewish themed retreat will offer participants intensive skills-oriented workshops and lectures focused on communication, love, and other marriage related issues, alongside discussions about Jewish traditions and customs, and their meaning and value in a growing home.
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The World Jewish Congress (WJC): is an international Jewish organization encompassing more than 100 Jewish communities on six continents. The WJC serves as the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people in order to advance the needs and interests of Jewish communities worldwide. The organization was founded in Geneva in 1936 and immediately became the leader in the preservation of the rights of Jews and the struggle against anti-Semitism.
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"History clearly attests to the fact that the Jewish existence in all Muslim countries was mostly harmonious and only since the inception of Zionism has this relationship been destroyed. Remove the intimidation and hyperbole of AIPAC and its ilk, and any logical person will conclude that the difference of religion is not the cause of the deep seated rift between Jews and Arabs. The new ideology, the political movement of Zionism, which culminated in the form of the State of 'Israel,' is the real culprit. In fact, Zionism is the direct cause for the exacerbation of anti Semitism universally."
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Western Europe's largest Jewish community can be found in France, home to 600,000 Jews, the majority of whom are immigrants or refugees from North African Arab countries such as Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia (or their descendants). There are over 265,000 Jews in the United Kingdom. In Eastern Europe, there are anywhere from 500,000 to over two million Jews living in the former Soviet Union, but exact figures are difficult to establish. The fastest-growing Jewish community in the world, outside Israel, is the one in Germany, especially in Berlin, its capital. Tens of thousands of Jews from the former Eastern Bloc have settled in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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