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  2. Jubilee (biblical) - Wikipedia

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    The Talmud (Arakhin 12b) accounts for 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, and 7 years taken to conquer the land of Canaan and 7 years to divide the land among the tribes, putting the first Jubilee cycle precisely 54 years after the exodus (i.e. in 1258 BC), and saying that the people of Israel counted 17 Jubilees from the time they entered ...

  3. Category:Massacres of Jews - Wikipedia

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    This article is NOT for massacres in which the people killed just happened to be Jews coincidentally, all the articles in this page should be about massacres in which Jews were intentionally targeted and killed. Compare to Category:Anti-Jewish pogroms.

  4. Timeline of Jewish history - Wikipedia

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    The History of the Jewish People The Jewish Agency; The Avalon Project at Yale Law School The Middle East 1916–2001: A Documentary Record; Historical Maps and Atlases at Dinur Center; Crash Course in Jewish History (Aish) The Year by Year History of the Jewish People – by Eli Birnbaum; Ministry of Foreign Affairs. History page; Jewish ...

  5. List of attacks on Jewish institutions - Wikipedia

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    A 2-year-old toddler was killed and 37 civilians were injured. One of the assailants was identified as Osama Abdel al-Zomar, an alleged member of the Abu Nidal Organization. [11] [12] [13] 1983 Beth Shalom synagogue Bloomington, Indiana, United States The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA)

  6. Jubilee - Wikipedia

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    A Jubilee is often used to refer to the celebration of a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. The term comes from the Hebrew Bible (see, " Old Testament "), initially concerning a recurring religious observance involving a set number of years, that notably involved freeing of ...

  7. Martyrdom in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    Some of the best known Jewish martyrs of this period is the story of the woman with seven sons and Eleazar (2 Maccabees). The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah commemorates and celebrates the miracle of the triumph of the Jews against the ancient Greeks and of Judaism and Torah over classical Greek culture. A number of Maccabees died as martyrs. [14]

  8. List of victims of Sobibor - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of people who were murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states that at least 170,000 people were murdered there. The Dutch Sobibor Foundation lists a calculated total of 170,165 people and cites the Höfle Telegram among its sources, while noting that other estimates range up to ...

  9. Traditional Jewish chronology - Wikipedia

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    [87] [88] A Sabbatical year could not be fixed without the year of the Jubilee, since the Jubilee serves to break-off the 7 x 7-year cycle, before resuming its count once again in the 51st year. While the 49th year is also a Sabbatical year, the fiftieth year is not the 1st year in a new seven-year cycle, but rather is the Jubilee.