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Bash was born Dana Ruth Schwartz in Manhattan into a Jewish family, to Frances (née Weinman) Schwartz, an author and educator in Jewish studies, and Stuart Schwartz, an ABC News producer who served as the senior broadcast producer for Good Morning America. [1] Bash's maternal grandmother, Teri Vidor Weinman, and her family were Hungarian Jews ...
In Judaism, the concept of the Jews as chosen people ( Hebrew: הָעָם הַנִבְחַר hāʿām hanīvḥar) is the belief that the Jews as a subset, via partial descent from the ancient Israelites, are also chosen people, i.e. selected to be in a covenant with God. Israelites being properly the chosen people of God is found directly in ...
Early life and military career 1967 photograph of Netanyahu by the Israel Defense Forces. Netanyahu was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv. His mother, Tzila Segal (1912–2000), was born in Petah Tikva in the Ottoman Empire's Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, and his father, Warsaw-born Benzion Netanyahu (né Mileikowsky; 1910–2012), was a historian specializing in the Jewish Golden age of Spain.
Messianic Judaism (Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת מְשִׁיחִית or יהדות משיחית , Yahadút Mešiḥít) is an syncretic Abrahamist new religious movement or sect that considers itself Jewish (despite the claims to the contrary of all major Jewish groups).
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency ( JTA) is an international news agency and wire service that primarily covers Judaism- and Jewish-related topics and news. Described as the " Associated Press of the Jewish media", JTA serves Jewish and non-Jewish newspapers and press around the world as a syndication partner. Founded in 1917, it is world Jewry 's ...
Language. English. Circulation. 12,192 (as of 2023) [2] Website. thejc .com. The Jewish Chronicle ( The JC) is a London -based Jewish weekly newspaper. Founded in 1841, it is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. [3] Its editor (since December 2021) is Jake Wallis Simons.
In the 16th century, the Chief Rabbi of Egypt, David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra (also called Radbaz, ca.1479-1573), proclaimed that in terms of halakha the Ethiopian Beta Israel community are ethnically Jewish. The Beta Israel is later mentioned in the Futuh al-Habasa, the history of the conquests of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi.
Jewish identity is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as a Jew and as relating to being Jewish. [1] Under a broader definition, Jewish identity does not depend on whether a person is regarded as a Jew by others, or by an external set of religious, legal, or sociological norms. Jewish identity does not need to imply ...