Ten Tribes Studies (21 March 2017, 23 Adar, 5777)
Contents:
1. Why is Judaism spelled as Judaism and Judases as Jews?
2. New Article. Judaism and Homosexuality
(a)Â Is it okay to be Jewish and gay?
(b) Why do some Jews support homosexuality?
3. New Article. British Zionism? Why did Britain help Jews establish the Jewish state?
4. Too Many Jewish Survivors?
5. Margo Moore. Article on Buses was Fascinating
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1. Why is Judaism spelled as Judaism and Judases as Jews?
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Brit-Am Reply:
Judaism is the religion of Judah.
Judah was that portion of the Israelite nation who remained faithful to the House of David and was not exiled with the Ten Tribes.
2-Kings 17:
 18 So the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from His sight; none was left except the Tribe of Judah.
Later we learn that the Tribe of Benjamin stayed with Judah (2 Chronicles 11:1); then the Tribe of Levi moved en masse to Judah (2-Chronicles 11:14) along with others from all over Israel (2-Chronicles 11:16).
Still later more Israelites from the other Tribes moved to Judah and became part of the people.
These were the ones who remained when the others were exiled by Assyria.
Since the remaining Israelites were dominated by Judah and congregated around Judah they were all considered part of Judah.
Mordecai from the Tribe of Benjamin (Esther 2:5) is referred to as "Mordecai ha-Yehudi," i.e. Mordecai the Jew (Esther 5:13).
The remaining Israelites were therefore all named after Judah.
The Torah and its laws were studied and practised in Judah and therefore this religion was named Judaism.
A practitioner of Judaism is known in English as a Jew and not as a Judas.
Judas or Judaser or what not may have been phonetically inconvenient for English speakers.
The term Jew was apparently easier on the tongue so this is the word they chose. They had adapted a French word that meant the same.
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See:
The Online Etymological Dictionary
Jew (n.)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=jew
late 12c., Giw, Jeu, "a Jew (ancient or modern), one of the Jewish race or religion," from Anglo-French iuw, Old French giu (Modern French Juif), from Latin Iudaeum (nominative Iudaeus), from Greek Ioudaios, from Aramaic (Semitic) jehudhai (Hebrew y'hudi) "a Jew," from Y'hudah "Judah," literally "celebrated," name of Jacob's fourth son and of the tribe descended from him.
Spelling with J- predominated from 16c. Replaced Old English Iudeas "the Jews," which is from Latin. ....
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And what about Judas?
The name Judas is a Latin or Greek form of the name Judah.
Judas was a disciple of the Christian Messiah but betrayed him for thirty pieces of silver.
Even though all the 12 disciples were said to be Jews it was Judas who was considered typically Jewish.
Judas in Western art was typically depicted as red-haired and red-bearded. Red -hair was considered a Jewish trait and therefore appropriate for Judas.
For pictures of Judas the red-haired Jew see:
Ruth Mellinkof: "Judas, Red Hair and the Jews"
http://www.jhom.com/arts/topics/color/judas.htm
#16. The European Depictions of a "Red-Haired" Judas
http://britam.org/HebrewTypes5.html#The
#17. More Pictures of Red-Haired Judas
http://britam.org/HebrewTypes5.html#More
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2. New Article. Judaism and Homosexuality.
Answers to Queries and Criticism
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/answers.html
Contents:
(a)Â Is it okay to be Jewish and gay?
(b) Why do some Jews support homosexuality?
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3. New Article. British Zionism? Why did Britain help Jews establish the Jewish state?
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/16/brshzion.html
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4. Too Many Jewish Survivors?
Question from Bob Massey:
Is it food for thought that there are so many Holocaust survivors?
we never hear from victims. Strange
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Reply by Yair Davidiy:
Before the Holocaust there were 8,861,800 Jews in countries that came under the control of Germany.
5,933, 900 died.
Source:
Lucy Dawidowicz, "The War Against the Jews," 1975, Hebrew translation 1982.
[It has since been claimed that these figure are to small and that the actual number of killed was greater.]
That leaves 2, 927, 900 survivors.
That makes for quite a large number.
I spent most of my adult life in Israel and met numerous survivors who had lost all their families.
Where I grew up there were also quite a few Jews in the same situation.
In addition,
There were also Jews in other countries that the Germans wished to conquer but never quite managed to do so.
My mother was Jewish. Several close relations of my mother in France and Germany were killed for being Jewish by the Germans.
My mother was in England but she too in a sense is a survivor because if the Germans had have conquered England she would probably have died.
I would not have come into the world.
That makes me also a survivor.
I would not have had children as I did.
Nor would I have had grandchildren as I now have, thank God.
So they too are survivors.
There are quite a lot of survivors like us.
Why does that surprise you?
Are you sorry the Germans were not as successful as they strived to be?
Does it pain you to see so many survivors?
I agree that the term Holocaust is somewhat misleading.
It sounds like a fairy tale i.e. once upon a time there were all these Jews in the world.
Along came this thing called Holocaust and took away many Jews.
Then the Holocaust passed by and a few Jews were still left.
Holocaust or not the Germans killed them because they were Jewish.
The Holocaust was killing of Jews by Germans and their helpers.
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Addenda.
The so-called survivors also continued to suffer.
In Europe most of them could not return to where they came from nor reclaim the property they once had.
Many stayed in Displaced Persons camps.
Displaced Persons
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005462
From 1945 to 1952, more than 250,000 Jewish displaced persons (DPs) lived in camps and urban centers in Germany, Austria, and Italy. These facilities were administered by Allied authorities and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Later the DPs went to the USA or Israel etc.
Most more or less eventually rehabilitated themselves. Some never ever recovered.
The unprecedented horror of what took place, modern media reports, survivors needing help and moving to other places, etc, the large number of guilty perpetrators and their unrepentant boasts, all helped bring the events to public attention.
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5. Margo Moore. Article on Buses was Fascinating
Re
Brit-Am Now no. 2726. Ten Tribes Studies
http://hebrewnations.com/features/now14/2726.html
#2. If Israel is supposed to be civilized, how come they have separate sidewalks for men and women?
The articles on separate public transportation for women were fascinating. I completely agree that women should be able to choose a segregated area for the sake of modesty in breast-feeding and freedom from sexual harassment. Sad to say, in the US this could never happen, at least under the present system; the liberals would be wringing their hands about the fate of transgenders and would do everything in their power to prevent modest women from enjoying their privacy.
I would have liked to learn more about this facet of Israeli life, but none of the links worked.
Shalom,
Margo Moore
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L13. Letters. Comments on You Tube Clips
http://hebrewnations.com/features/now14/l13letters.html
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Facebook:
Hebrew Nations
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Yair Davidiy
https://www.facebook.com/yair.davidiy
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Yair Davidiy YouTube Station: Clips Concerning the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel
https://www.youtube.com/user/yairdavidiy
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