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| Although "semitic" properly refers to Arab and other peoples as well as Jews, the term "anti-semitism has come to be applied to expressions of prejudice against Jews in general. |
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| In Judaism and Christianity, the dramatic end of the present age. |
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| An ethnic grouping of the Jews that migrated first to Italy, spread throughout central and eastern Europe and thence on to the Americas |
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| an urban area occupied by those rejected by a society, such as quarters for Jews in some European cities |
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| The non-legal part of the Talmud and Midrash |
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| Jewish legal decision and the parts of the Talmud Dealing with laws |
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| Ecstatic Jewish piety, dating from eighteenth-century Poland |
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| The Jewish mystical tradition. |
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| Ritually acceptable, applied to foods in Jewish Orthodoxy. |
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| The "anointed," the expected king and deliverer of the Jews; a term later applied by Christians to Jesus |
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| The "anointed," the expected king and deliverer of the Jews; a term later applied by Christians to Jesus |
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| The "anointed," the expected king and deliverer of the Jews; a term later applied by Christians to Jesus |
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| The literature of delving into the Jewish Torah |
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| The quorum of ten adult males required for Jewish communal worship. |
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| In Judaism, a divine commandment, or sacred deed in fulfillment of a commandment. |
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| The five books of Moses at the beginning of the Hebrew Bible |
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| Teacher; the ordained spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation. |
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| Reform or Liberal Judaism |
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| Movement that began in the nineteenth century as a way of modernizing the religion and making it more accessible and making it more accessible and open-ended. |
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| The day of the week set aside for rest and worship, in Judaism running from sunset Friday night to sunset Saturday night. |
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| An ethnic grouping of Jews that migrated first to Spain and then to North Africa, the Americas and back to West Asia. |
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| God's presence in the world, in Judaism |
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| Meeting place for Jewish study and worship |
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| Jewish law and lore, as finally compiled in the sixth century CE. |
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| The Pentateuch; also, the whole body of Jewish teaching and law. |
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| Movement dedicated to the establishment of a politically viable internationally recognized Jewish state in the biblical land of Israel. |
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