(n.) The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses.
(n.) Conformity to the Jewish rites and ceremonies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Palestinians see this as Jewish encroachment on the site, the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, while Jewish activists like Glick say they are being discriminated against by limiting their chances to pray atop the mount.
(2) She’s an African-American woman who recently converted to Judaism.
(3) From a barbaric bronze age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved – Judaism, Christianity, Islam.
(4) Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism and Islam all get both barrels.
(5) Although the UK's main churches oppose the reform, other faiths, including the Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Judaism, support marriage rights for gay couples and have said they would like to conduct the ceremonies.
(6) In 1959, Taylor, who had converted to Judaism when she married Todd, married Fisher at a synagogue in Las Vegas.
(7) Even in Israel itself, where the grip of Judaism on the apparatus of state control is increasingly resented by many secular Jews, there is a growing one-state movement.
(8) Rabbi Danny Rich Chief executive , Lucian J Hudson Chair , Rabbi Charley Baginsky Chair, Rabbinic conference, Liberal Judaism • While Antony Beevor is right to remind us of both the Soviet Union’s role in liberating the Nazi extermination camps and of Russia’s long history of antisemitism ( Why Putin should be at Auschwitz , 21 January), he fails to highlight why, at this particular moment, it is worse than “a great shame” that Putin will not be attending the events at Auschwitz next week to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation by the Red Army.
(9) The attitudes of Catholicism and Judaism to scrupulosity are presented and the similarity between their management programmes and present-day behavioural psychotherapy is noted.
(10) This article critically reviews modern Jewish teaching on Judaism and homosexuality.
(11) Of course there is a dilemma about whether we are giving oxygen to the fascists and increasing their capacity to act by our reaction,” said Laura Janner-Klausner, the senior rabbi of Reform Judaism .
(12) Around the time of her conversion to Catholicism, Spark's son, who became a painter, embraced Judaism, claiming that his maternal grandmother was Jewish thus making him a Jew; Spark always maintained that although her father was Jewish, her mother was not.
(13) Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism to marry businessman Jared Kushner, with whom she has three children.
(14) Indeed, much of that US violence is grounded in if not expressly justified by religion , including the aggressive attack on Iraq and steadfast support for Israeli aggression (to say nothing of the role Judaism plays in the decades-long oppression by the Israelis of Palestinians and all sorts of attacks on neighboring Arab and Muslim countries).
(15) Netanyahu, it appears, has a plan B in his overtures to Israel’s ultra-orthodox parties, including Shas and United Torah Judaism, who some have suggested could form the core of a new coalition with the foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, if current alliances collapse.
(16) David Arnold, a representative of Manchester’s Jewish community, said Christianity, Judaism and Islam had shared values which Henning demonstrated: “We all understand, as Alan understood, that all human life is not just precious but sacred.” Asim Hussain, the imam at Manchester Central mosque, said: “Alan was an individual who embodies more Islamic values than the entire Isis put together.
(17) I once did a series called painting from the nine religions: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and everything else ism.
(18) Brexit explained: risk of war The signatories include Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, the principal rabbi at the Movement for Reform Judaism; Bharti Tailor, executive director of the Hindu Forum of Europe; and Miqdaad Versi, assistant general secretary of the Muslim Council of Great Britain.
(19) The story of Noah is written by two sources – the "J" writer, older and more folkloric, and the "Priestly writer" most interested in getting Judaism into a regular religious shape – both of which have been plaited together as best they could by later editors.
(20) His parents were not religious but he attended a Catholic primary school and at the same time received private tuition in Judaism.
Messianic
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to the Messiah; as, the Messianic office or character.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I was nine or 10 I leapt directly from Doctor Dolittle to Dr No, leaving behind all those stupid talking animals and free-falling into a far naughtier realm of suavely promiscuous government assassins, hot shell-diving beauties and villains with metal hands and messianic plans for humanity.
(2) For Trump, America will be great again when it is responsible to no one, when it can bend neighbors to its will through magic feats of negotiation, when its military abandons all remaining ethical standards, when it defers its problems to a messianic strongman.
(3) "Our role is not inheriting that messianic role," he said.
(4) It is a messianism he combines with the tousled good looks of an ageing matinée idol and an undeniable charisma that at TED in Oxford four years ago had some members of the audience spellbound.
(5) That toxic blend of messianic warmongering abroad and McCarthyite witch-hunting at home – which gave us Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo and the London bombings – is coursing through our public life again.
(6) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Jones, a tall, bounding figure with a hairstyle and beard verging on the messianic, says the idea emerged from his comedy, where he encouraged those coming to his gigs to get to know one another, and they in turn pressed him for ways to stay in touch and even build small groups.
(7) They are opportunists, a hidden hand.” He warned France against “following the United States in ideological messianism” and of “hatred against hatred, war against war”, urging “a political vision, political strategies”.
(8) Pacquiao’s quasi-messianic desire to combat the poverty that spat him out from General Santos City years ago – a compulsion that's led him all the way to a congressional seat in the Philippines – had left his competitive drive subject to intense scrutiny.
(9) When I spoke to Farage he described Tony Blair’s messianic foreign policy as a post-imperial hang-up.
(10) Is he supposed to be floating, messianically, over the waves?
(11) Morsi's assessment of the region's problems came in stark contrast to the address delivered by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , who focused on religious themes, particular his messianic form of Shia Islam, and did not mention the Iranian nuclear programme, which is the focus of rising tension in the region – and in the wider international community.
(12) Some spoke of the disaster in the language of messianism, the idea that God sanctioned Poland’s suffering for a holy purpose.
(13) Markram's belief in the ability of computing technology to solve the big questions of neuroscience is messianic.
(14) The party of separation is a lean, ferociously disciplined and committed force with a leader who is treated with almost messianic reverence.
(15) And he drifted into messianic territory when he predicted it might mark “the beginning of peace in the Middle East and maybe all over the world”.
(16) Buhari, a tough-talking ex-general with a reputation for incorruptibility, was viewed by many Nigerians as an almost messianic figure who would rescue the country from its kleptocratic ruling elite and crush Boko Haram , the homegrown jihadi group responsible for thousands of deaths in recent years.
(17) Yet every now and then (his almost messianic half-time performance at the 2007 Super Bowl; that month of gigs at the O2 in London), Prince would remind us of his unwaning musical power and why it was necessary and right to prostrate yourself once a month in front of a silent, mocking fax machine.
(18) In January Israel's defence minister, Moshe Ya'alon, described Kerry as "obsessive and messianic".
(19) Also significant is Prokhorov's emphasis on universal European values and his criticism of Russia's new messianism, the idea the country has "its own 'special' fate, separate and distinct from everyone else".
(20) Hamas, however, is not a messianic jihadist movement but a local organisation with a pragmatic political leadership and limited aims.