The Chosen

Introduction

Task

Answer the questions on the PROCESS page by clicking on the given websites and searching for the answers.  

Answers MUST BE written out on a separate sheet of paper and MUST BE in complete sentences.  You do not need to write the question.

Process

http://judaism.about.com/religion/judaism/library/intro/bl_intro.htm

Click on Judaism 101 to find the answers.

http://www.oed.com/

  1. Is Judaism a race, ethnicity or religion?
  2. What is the Torah?
  3. What is the Talmud?
  4. What is one fundamental difference between Judaism and Christianity?
  5. What is an Hasidic Jew?
  6. What is an Orthodox Jew?

 

Find definitions for the following terms

http://www.oed.com/ 

or

http://dictionary.reference.com/

 

7.      Wailing

7.      Diaspora

8.      Pilpul

9.      Menorah

10.      Masada

11.      Yom Kippur

12.      Kaddish

13.      bar or bat mitzvah

14.      Gemara

 

15.  dreidel       

16.  pogrom

17.  Ark of the Covenant

18.  Moses Maimonides

19.  matzo

20.  Haskalah

21.  Rosh Hashanah

22.  mishnah

http://psychology.about.com/od/sigmundfreud/p/sigmund_freud.htm

23. Who was Sigmund Freud?  What is he famous for?

24. When was he born?  When did he die?

25. What is the ID, the EGO, and the SUPEREGO?

26. What does G. William Domhoff say about dreams?  

27. What do you think about dreams?  Do you think it is our subconscious trying to tell us something?  Why or why not?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

28. What is Zionism?  Why was there a Zionist movement?

29. Was the Zionist movement eventually successful?  If so, on what date?

30. How many of the world's jewish population now live in Israel?

31. What does Eretz Israel mean?

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/texts/Rabbinics/Talmud/talmud_101.shtml

32. When was the Talmud published and by whom?

33. What is "mishnah"?

34. What is "gemara"?

35. What have some scholars found in modern study of the Talmud?

Evaluation

You will be graded on whether or not you write in complete sentences and the detail of your answers.  35 points.  Good luck.