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Jews were forbidden entrance to Jerusalem on pain of death, except for the day of Tisha B'Av. There was a further shift of the center of religious authority from Yavne, as rabbis regrouped in Usha in the western Galilee, where the Mishnah was composed. This ban struck a blow at Jewish national identity within Palestine, while the Romans however ...
According to the Talmud then, there is no distinction between "religious Jews" and "secular Jews." In modern Hebrew , the same word is still used to mean both Jews and Judeans ("of Judea"). In Arabic the terms are yahūdī (sg.), al-yahūd (pl.), and بَنُو اِسرَائِيل banū isrāʼīl .
The majority were immigrants, with German Jews comprising most of the early nineteenth-century wave of Jewish immigration to the United States and therefore to the Western states and territories, while Eastern European Jews migrated in greater numbers and comprised most of the migratory westward wave at the close of the century. [42]
By the 3rd century BCE, some Jews of the diaspora were speaking Greek. [194] Others, such as in the Jewish communities of Asoristan, known to Jews as Babylonia, were speaking Hebrew and Aramaic, the languages of the Babylonian Talmud. Dialects of these same languages were also used by the Jews of Syria Palaestina at that time. [citation needed]
The villages were largely economically self-sufficient and economic interchange was prevalent. According to the Bible, prior to the rise of the Israelite monarchy the early Israelites were led by the Biblical judges, or chieftains who served as military leaders in times of crisis. Scholars are divided over the historicity of this account.
Saudi forces accompanied them to ensure their safe passage until they reached Saada. King Abdulaziz Al Saud later requested their return, but the Yemeni Imam, Ahmed bin Yahya, refused, claiming they were Yemeni Jews. After staying in the Hashid camp, they were eventually airlifted to Israel as part of the "Magic Carpet" operation.
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