Judaism
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Judaismis ane o the first recorditmonotheisticreligious faiths an ane o the auldest releegious tradeetions that's aye follaed the day. The vailyies an history o the Jewish fowk is a muckle pairt o the foonds o itherAbrahamic releegionslikChristianity,Islam,Samaritanisman theBahá'í Faith.Thar ar 14.5 and 17.4 million Jewish fowk atouer theYirdthe nou.[1]
TheJewish fowk,kent as theJews(Hebrew:יְהוּדִיםYehudim[jɛhuːdiːm]) forby, are anaitionanethnoreleegious groupwi its springheid in theIsraelitesorEbreuso theAuncient Near East.The Jewishethnicity,naitionality,anreleegionis strangly interrelatit, as Judaism is the traditional faith o the Jewishnaition.[2][3][4]Converts tae Judaism,whase status as Jews athin the Jewishethnosis equal tae thaim born intae it, haes been absorbed intae the Jewish fowk ootthrou the millennia.
References
[eedit|eedit soorce]- ↑14.3 million(core Jewish population) to17.4 million(including non-Jews who have a Jewish parent), according to:
- DellaPergola, Sergio (2015).World Jewish Population, 2015(Report). Berman Jewish DataBank.Retrieved4 Mey2016.
- "Worldwide Jewry numbers 14 million".Ynet.Retrieved21 October2013.
- "Jewish Population".Judaism101.Retrieved20 September2013.
- Daniel J. Elazar."How Strong is Orthodox Judaism – Really? The Demographics of Jewish Religious Identification".Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.Retrieved20 September2013.
- "The Global Religious Landscape – Jews".Pew Research Center.18 December 2012.Retrieved31 October2013.
- ↑[1]"The Jewish Problem: How To Solve It,"U.S. Supreme Court JusticeLouis D. Brandeis,"Jews are a distinctive nationality of which every Jew, whatever his country, his station or shade of belief, is necessarily a member" (April 25, 1915),University of LouisvilleLouis D. Brandeis School of Law,Retrieved on June 15, 2009
- ↑[2]Palmer, Henry,A History of the Jewish Nation(1875),D. Lothrop & Co.,Retrieved on June 15, 2009
- ↑[3]"The Collected Papers ofAlbert Einstein,Vol. 7: Berlin Years, "U.S. Supreme Court JusticeLouis D. Brandeis,"The Jewish Nation is a living fact" (June 21, 1921),Princeton University Press,Retrieved on June 15, 2009
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