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41JEWISH LEGION — JEWISH LEGION, military formation of Jewish volunteers in World War I who fought in the British army for the liberation of Ereẓ Israel from Turkish rule. When Turkey entered the war on the side of the Central Powers (Oct. 30, 1914), two different …
42Jewish services — (Hebrew: תפלה, tefillah ; plural תפלות, tefillos or tefillot ; Yinglish: davening) are the prayer recitations which form part of the observance of Judaism. These prayers, often with instructions and commentary, are found in the siddur , the… …
43Jewish leadership — has evolved over time. Since the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE, there has been no single body that has a leadership position over the entire Jewish diaspora. Various branches of Judaism, as well as Jewish religious or… …
44Jewish population — refers to the number of Jews in the world. Precise figures are difficult to calculate because the definition of Who is a Jew remains a source of controversy.Total populationAccording to the estimates for 2007 of the Jewish People Policy Planning… …
45Jewish identity — is the subjective state of perceiving oneself as a Jew and as relating to being Jewish. [http://books.google.com/books?id=87sx1v9UmlQC printsec=frontcover dq=jewish+identity sig=uWlgMwXei1dyZFhqvXV3RxvWK3I] Jewish identity, by this definition,… …
46Jewish history in Pennsylvania — dates back to Colonial America.First mentionOne of the original thirteen states of the American Union; named after William Penn, who received a grant of the territory from King Charles II in 1681. When Peter Stuyvesant, in 1655, conquered the… …
47Jewish Bolshevism — Jewish Bolshevism, Judeo Bolshevism, Judeo Communism, or in Polish, Żydokomuna, is a pejorative antisemitic expression based on the notion that Jews are responsible for Bolshevism and Communism.The expression was the title of a pamphlet, The… …
48Jewish Agency — (Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish Agency for Israel) A quasi governmental institution established in the 1920s under the terms of the Palestine mandate to advise and cooperate with the British authorities in the task of establishing the… …
49JEWISH EDUCATION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA (JESNA) — JEWISH EDUCATION SERVICE OF NORTH AMERICA (JESNA). The Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) formally came into being on July 1, 1981 as the successor agency to the american association for jewish education (AAJE) founded in 1939. In… …
50Jewish partisans — were fighters in irregular military groups participating in the Jewish resistance movement against Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. A number of Jewish partisan groups operated across Nazi occupied Europe, some comprised of… …
