Intercultural communication and Judaism

Chirica OctavianDavid Miro

What is Judaism?

Judaism, religious culture of the Jews (also known as the people of Israel); one of the world’s oldest continuing religious traditions.

Judaism is an Abrahamic religion -- a faith which recognizes Abraham as a Patriarch.

Heritage to Moses. Exile & Persecution. Israel as Homeland. Sacred Text is Torah. Sabbath Begins on Friday

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Festivities

High Holy Days (Jewish New Year) , in Judaism, more properly known as the Yamim Noraim may mean: “Day of Atonement” or by a further extension “Ten Days of Repentance”

KOSHER

(=clean, perfect, fair) Strict rules e.g.

regarding the food regulated in the Torah

Kosher= Halal

Kosher meat

-kosher butchering = strict rules how to kill an animal, which knives to use

Intercultural discrimination?

Kosher- butchering is forbiddenThe meat has to be imported and is very expensive

Koshers symbols

Globalization and Jewish food

Religious Influences on Communication

Christianity Islam Hinduism Judaism Indigenous Buddhism

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Judaism and other religions

Special and close. Both religions claim to arise from the patriarch 

Abraham Monotheists religions Muslims view Jews as “people of the book” Judaism views Muslims as righteous people of

God

Islam and Judaism

Conflicts between Jewish and Muslims people

http://www.science.co.il/arab-israeli-conflict/articles/Ettinger-2003-08-16.asp

Christianity and Judaism

both have a historically and theologically relationship

http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/charts/christianity_judaism.htm

History & Stats

Christianity Judaism

date founded c. 30 AD c. 1300 BC

place founded Palestine Palestine

founders & early leaders

Jesus, Peter, Paul

Abraham, Moses

original languages

Aramaic and Greek

Hebrew

Stereotypes and preconceived ideas about the Hebrew

Anti-Semites Blame Jews for Financial Crisis

If one were to ask the average Egyptian what a Jew looks like,

it would not be surprising if he or she described a dark, bearded, hooknose man clad in black with a demonic appearance

http://www.adl.org/NR/exeres/459FE625-45BD-4BD4-AD08-19CDB2C3A505,8C8C250F-DA79-405F-B716-D4409CAB5396,frameless.htm

From the Syrian people:

Jewish face smiling happily while the character representing the United States of America and the Arabs are crying bitterly.

Stereotype of an Orthodox Jew during the U.S.A. election from 2008

Wall Street and Jewish

The Iranian Jew

This is a form of Iranian Jewish greedy stereotype, as Jerry (Iranian Jew) seeks to run off with the portion of food that he got hold of.

Jew in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. 

Montgomery Burns…a Jewish?¿

Bibliography

http://www.religioustolerance.org/judaism.htm http://www.fff.org/freedom/0400f.asp http://www.jewfaq.org/judaism.htm http://www.adl.org/NR/exeres/459FE625-45BD-

4BD4-AD08-19CDB2C3A505,8C8C250F-DA79-405F-B716-D4409CAB5396,frameless.htm

http://www.habodror.org.uk/documents/CJprint.pdf Encarta 2009

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