Orthodox Judaism

In his discussion of Alien abduction narratives (AANs), Scott Scribner’s chapter section titled “Alien Abduction Narratives and Religious Contexts,” proposes that there are many religious aspects and common similarities between uncanny AANs and epistemological religious narratives (Tanminia, 2007). Scribner introduces the history of AANs and makes a clear-cut distinction between stories claiming abduction or ‘contact’, an important point, the author emphasizes. Moreover, Scribner analyzes the…

WHAT CUSTOMERS LOOK FOR! The Magi was the name given to three kings, also referred to as the "three wise men" who visited the infant Jesus and brought him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. It is folklore that they had a great knowledge of stars and people all over the world admired them as masters of astrology. All these three had great spiritual and symbolic value. It is said that the gold was a symbol of kingship, the frankincense was a symbol of spiritual excellence and the myrrh was…

Triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1-11) Jesus and his disciples are on their way to Jerusalem for the Passover feast. In Jerusalem was crowded with many people who had come for the annual Passover celebration in a springtime Sunday. Jesus had spent for traveling through the towns and villages of Palestine. He preached about the kingdom of God and healed the sick. Now the time had come for Him to claim as the Messiah. Jesus knew His mission was almost finished and He warned his…

While one observes the background of believers in Corinth and the key verse of 1 Corinthians (1:10), it is vivid that there was division among the believers. There was division concerning to leadership (1:12), moral standards (5:1-8), between people who have knowledge and weak, higher class members and lower class members, rich and poor, accusers and accused (6:1-8) and so on. One of the controversial, cultural, ethical and the religious issues which brought division among the believers was the…

The symbolism of Mecca for Helen In the play (The road to Mecca by Athol Furgard faber and faber edition) In the play “The road to Mecca” by Athol Furgard is a character named Helen, also known as Miss Helen. In the play she creates her own Mecca in her yard. Mecca is a city in Saudi Arabia and it is a holy city to followers of Islam. People take this religious journey to deepen their experience with God. In this case Helen takes a spiritual journey and she does not physically go to Saudi…

The book, Night, by Elie Wiesel and the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, demonstrates two completely different perspectives towards the Holocaust. Night, a nonfiction memoir, depicted the life and feelings of a young boy who was forced to endure the harshness and depression of a life in a death camp. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a heartbreaking movie, based on a fictional novel, shares the inimaginable friendship of a Nazi soldier's son, Bruno, with an imprisoned Jewish boy, Shmuel.…

As Anne Frank once said, “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again,” applies to the screenplay “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett because of the moral that is conveyed to us by the author. The “Diary of Anne Frank” is about a Jewish thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank who goes into hiding with her family and family friends whose names are Mr. Frank, Mrs. Frank, Margot, Mr. Van Dann, Mrs. Van Dann, Peter and Mr.…

The book I read was The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. This book takes place in Germany 1942, it is a Holocaust story which is never easy to read. The book starts with our main character Bruno coming home from school and seeing his family maid packing up all his belongings. We later find out that Bruno’s family is going to move to a new home after Hitler promotes Bruno's father. Bruno comes from a family of wealth and is unhappy with his new living arrangement. Bruno has no idea he lives near an…

The Cruel Final Solution There was a conference that was known as Wannsee, that was held in Berlin, 1942. At the Wannsee conference, the SS, subdivisions, handled what was known as the Final Solution that targeted the Jews. The conference was brought up to light in the film Conspiracy, where the Final Solution was agreed upon Hitler’s fifteen men who debated the pros and cons of what was to be done to the Jews. In addition, the Final Solution determined what was going to happen to the Jews,…

The men show all that has been done within the gulag during one normal day with all the activities that have occurred. During the Stalin era, conditions were poor with people getting beat up and thrown in the cell with having to reason behind, having the audience being treated similarly to animals. Although the conditions destroyed the men by making them suffer, Solzhenitsyn shows how strong, the men truly are including what gets them through their days. The comparisons exemplify how brutally…