~*~::{Reading Blog #37: Jews}::*~

This week I’ma talk about the Jews and the Jewish culture. First off, the Jewish people can be dated back until about 2000 BCE. They began as monotheists, which means they only believed in one main God that controlled mostly all aspects of life. One thing I learned was that the term “Jewish” doesn’t only refer to the religion, but it’s also a way of life. So you could be an atheist or a Christian and have Christian values and goals and virtues and such, but you could live a Jewish lifestyle…I thought that was particularly interesting. Over five million Jews were killed during the reign of Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust for being considered the reason the banks failed and why their country was going through such a great hyperinflation. Today, the Jews have to live by very strict rules like eating fish only on Fridays and not eating beef and other rules like that. Personally, I think they are silly rules, but who am I to say that my religion is better than another religion.

"Jew -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 01 Mar. 2009 .