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The Jewish victory at the Battle of Adasa led to an annual festival as well, albeit one less prominent and remembered than Hanukkah. The defeat of Seleucid general Nicanor is celebrated on 13 Adar as Yom Nicanor. [113] [114] The traumatic time period helped define the genre of the apocalypse and heightened Jewish apocalypticism. [115]
Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Hellenistic culture and religion. Until the early Muslim conquests of the eastern Mediterranean, the main centers of Hellenistic Judaism were Alexandria in Egypt and Antioch in Syria (modern-day Turkey), the two main Greek urban settlements of the Middle East and North ...
This usage of either "Hellenismos" or "Hellenism" as a religion and religious identity is considered objectionable and harmful towards Greek identity. [64] In an interview in Tablet magazine, American independent scholar Angelo Nasios explained that: "Hellenism refers simply to Greekness.
The Jewish population in New York went from about 80,000 in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920 [18] This new mix of cultures changed what was a middle-class, acculturated, politically conservative community to a working-class, Yiddish-speaking group with a varied mix of ideologies including socialism, Zionism, and religious orthodoxy.
At the same time, most Jewish leaders in America and in Palestine did little to pressure these governments to change their policy. [8] Some American newspapers, including the New York Times , are said to have underreported or buried reports off their front pages because of anti-Semitism .
Three Jewish UCLA students filed a federal lawsuit against the UC regents and several university officials on Wednesday, alleging that anti-Israel protesters blocked them from crucial parts of the ...
A National Right to Work Foundation news release said that “the final brief has been submitted urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear six City University of New York (CUNY) professors’ Firs
The fury of Jewish voters and activists already proved pivotal in Democratic primary elections in recent months — “Squad” Rep. Jamaal Bowman was ousted from New York’s 16th Congressional ...