*There are approximately 13 Million people that follow Judaism today.
*Judaism is the oldest major religion and the first religion to teach the belief in one god.
*Unlike many other religions there is only one kind of people who follow it--Jews.
*Christianity and Islam developed from Jusaism
*The Jewish holy book is the Torah.
*It is also what the Christians call the old testement.
*The persecution of the Jews in the 1930's was horrible and will be remembered forever. After being crushed in the economic disaster in the Great Depression and being totally defeated in WWI, the time was perfect for Hitler to take anti-Semitism, or hatred for Jews-to a whole different level. *Jews all over became victims of Hitler's awful laws such as those in Poland, Europe, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. It was an awful time for the Jewish people and in camps all over Germany and Poland Jews were being murdered by starvation, disease, beating, mutilation, infection, gassing, and burning.
*Six million Jews, or about one-third of the entire Jewish population of the world was completely wiped out. Only fifty thousand Jews remained after the war.
*The faith of the Jewish people was tested greatly during the Holocaust.
*Judaism was a parent of Christianity, and we probably know more about it than any other religion, excluding our own, right off the top of our heads.
*The ancestors of the Jews, called the Israelites, established a kingdom in Canaan-the land of Milk and Honey.
*The Israelites first began to see themselves in a special relationship with their God at about 1000 B.C.E. God had selected them to be a Chosen People. God had offered the Chosen People a covenant, or special agreement.
*In this covenant, the Israelites promised to worship only God, and in return God promised them preservation throughout history and the land of Canaan.
*Canaan was later called Judah, Israel, and Palestin...