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List of Jewish communities by country, including synagogues, organizations, yeshivas and congregations. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( December 2014 )
Mosaic depicting the twelve tribes and their Hebrew names, with symbolic images. *Asher: a tree *Dan: Scales of justice *Judah: Kinnor, cithara and crown, symbolising King David *Reuben: Mandrake (Genesis 30:14) *Joseph: Palm tree and sheaves of wheat, symbolizing his time in Egypt *Naphtali: gazelle (Genesis 49:21)
Israeli Jews encompass a diverse range of Jewish communities from around the world, such as Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Beta Israel, Cochin, Bene Israel, and Karaite Jews, among others, representing roughly half of all Jewish people living today. This rich tapestry of Jewish diaspora communities contributes to the genetic composition of ...
Pages in category "Jewish ethnic groups" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Empty map: File:World map (Miller cylindrical projection, blank).svg; Some sources available on page Jews on the English Wikipedia; Number of Jews per country considering enlarged estimates: World Jewish Population in the World. Berman Jewish DataBank (2018). Retrieved on 22 June 2019. Author: Allice Hunter
Morocco, the North African nation with the largest Jewish population both at the start of the 20th Century and today, [26] had a Jewish population of ~275,000 at its peak around the time of the establishment of Israel. [27] A significant number of Moroccan Jews are descendants of the Berber-speaking Jews who once lived in the Atlas Mountains. [28]
The Jewish fast day of Tisha B'Av commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem and the subsequent exile of the Jews from the Land of Israel. The Jewish tradition maintains that the Roman exile would be the last, and that after the people of Israel returned to their land, they would never be exiled again.
As of 2010, there were nearly 14 million Jews around the world, roughly 0.2% of the world's population at the time. [258] According to the 2007 estimates of The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, the world's Jewish population is 13.2 million. [259]