Throughout history, the Jewish faith has continuously faced persecution, the culmination of this appearing in the form of the Holocaust. The genocide against the Jewish people tremendously altered the Jewish identity and the Jewish relationship with God, as for some people, the Holocaust was a call to return to Orthodox religious observance, or for others, it is a call to integrate into the non-Jewish world to avoid such things from happening in the future. In general, the Jewish idea of God was dramatically changed in a less trustworthy way, and many Jewish people felt that without this bond between them and God, there was no meaning and no need for Jewish life. The idea of a divine and omnipotent power disappeared, as the Jews could not accept
