(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.
Proselyte
Definition:
(n.) A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte.
(v. t.) To convert to some religion, opinion, or system; to bring over.
Example Sentences:
(1) The search of cases of insanity among the rebels, the idea that their acts could only express some kind of phrenopathic disorder opens the debate on the very existence of some morbid types such as Falret's and Pottier's "reasoning, inexhaustible and proselyte lunatics", the "many characters with fanciful projects, including reformists of the human race, and various utopists" that Morel includes in his classification of hereditary insanity, Serieux's and Capgras "idealists concerned with justice" found amongst delusions related to altruistic claims, Dide's and Guiraud's "idealistic passions, social reformers, anarchists" appear to us as very outdated classifications, on the border of the psychiatric field.
(2) Bernanke – as close to a philosopher-king as we have in this country – doesn't want that title, and doesn't try to proselytize.
(3) He holds informal seminars with local ranchers, proselytizing for the militia’s cause about the federal government “tyranny” – and the illegitimacy of federal land management and custody.
(4) The current prevalent attitude of disapprobation towards the medical model, held by nurse practitioners and educationalists alike, stems from a desire to denounce diagnostic reductionism and proselytize holistic care.
(5) When the Italian replied that his friends had said any conversion would probably be the other way round, Francis replied: "Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it doesn't make sense."
(6) The era of proselytizing the virtues of consultation-liaison psychiatry is over, and as with every other area of psychiatric therapy, governmental policy makers and third party payors are appropriately demanding to see "proof" that our treatments are both clinically- and cost-effective.
(7) I'm a proselytizer for the show, a believer that it is probably the greatest currently running TV show and the one that stands the best chance of being watched in 100 years (assuming that the first eight years of The Simpsons don't count, and they shouldn't).