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Introduction Throughout history parts of religions and cultures change. During the turn of the century, Jews has been deemed as a racial group in certain societies but "regardless of where Jews have lived most recently all Jews have roots in the Middle East" ( www.myjewishlearning.com). In this paper I will elaborate on Judahism and Jewish history, meaning and I will conclude with an analysis of today Jews.
Meaning
The word Jew derived from the word Judah which are a people of Hebrew decent. Judah was one of Jacob's sons in the King James Bible. Judahism is the religion of Yehudim, The term Yehudi referred to members of the tribe of Judah. The Judah tribes began to break a part to different parts of the world during the conquering of their …show more content…

I bring this to attention because Jew is used to refer to all of the physical and spiritual descendants of Jacob/ Israel but this usage is technically incorrect; because any person whose mother was a Jew is a Jew. Example if you are born to Jewish parents even if you don't practice Judaism you are technically still a Jew, because in Jewish culture a child comes from their mother's womb so they are what ever their mother is. "44% of American Jews by birth consider themselves somewhat secular Jews (forward.com). What is a secular Jew? A non religious …show more content…

Just to reflect when they were exiled out of Israel they moved to different parts of the world and adapted to different cultures but Jewish gangs began to form. Al-Qaeda was formed during the 1930s by the Jewish Agency (JA). The JA had many missions but one of their main missions were to expel Palestinians from Palestine and attempt to migrate Middle Eastern Jews to Palestine to increase the Jew Population there. The JA raised two types of Jewish Terrorist groups. One group consisted of Ashkenazi which were Polish/Russian/Western Jews. They terrorized Palestinian villages forcing Palestinians to leave. As time went on Eastern Jews are Arabian Jews and some joined and were very close to Osama and a part of his mission, which was also connected to Al-Qaeda. It is said that Jewish entities/corporations such as the Israeli weapons Industry is controlled by Jews and that is why wars will continue in the Middle East. Presently today, "75% of Israel oil come from combat zones" (active-democracy.com), so this brings me to the question, did all Judah Tribes really get exiled out of Israel. My answer is apparently not or some migrated back to

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