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Schmidt served in Hitler's Wehrmacht, while managing to hide his Jewish roots from the Nazi regime. [107] Árpád Göncz, a former president of Hungary from 1990 to 2000, had a Jewish maternal grandfather. [108] Although most head of states with Jewish ancestry come from Europe and Latin America, some are from other regions of the World.
New leaders such as Israel Jacobson, father of the German Reform Judaism movement, launched an egalitarian, modernist stance that challenged the Orthodoxy. The resulting fractures in Jewish society has translated into a situation whereby there is no single religious governing body for the entire Jewish community at the present time.
The following is a list of people who were in the position of the leaders of the Jewish nation, heads of state and/or government in the Land of Israel. Because of the position of the Land of Israel in Judaism, the leaders of the inhabitants of the land had a priority status also over Diaspora Jewry, although there were periods when this status weakened due to the weakening of the Jewish ...
This is a list of politicians of Jewish origin divided between their respective countries and those serving as heads of state and government. Jewish politicians by country [ edit ]
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California's first and only Jewish governor Idaho: Moses Alexander [1] Democratic: January 4, 1915: January 6, 1919: Idaho's first and only Jewish governor Utah: Simon Bamberger [1] Democratic: January 1, 1917: January 1, 1921: Utah's first and only Jewish governor New Mexico: Arthur Seligman [1] Democratic: January 1, 1931: September 25, 1933
The Messiah in Judaism means anointed one; it included Jewish priests, prophets and kings such as David and Cyrus the Great. [1] Later, especially after the failure of the Hasmonean Kingdom (37 BCE) and the Jewish–Roman wars (66–135 CE), the figure of the Jewish Messiah was one who would deliver the Jews from oppression and usher in an Olam HaBa ("world to come"), the Messianic Age.
Stanley M. Wagner (1932–2013), American rabbi, academic and community leader, Vice President of the Religious Zionists of America, led the Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol-Beth Joseph congregation, the only rabbi chaplain of the Colorado Senate, Professor of Jewish history at the University of Denver
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