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121List of German Jews — The Jewish presence in Germany is older than Christianity; the first Jewish population came with the Romans to the city Cologne. A Golden Age in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion… …
122History of male circumcision — It has been variously proposed that male circumcision began as a religious sacrifice, as a rite of passage marking a boy s entrance into adulthood, as a form of sympathetic magic to ensure virility, as a means of suppressing (or enhancing) sexual …
123Who is a Jew? — Part of a series of articles on Jews and Judaism …
124Obadiah (disambiguation) — Obadiah is a Biblical theophorical name, meaning servant of Yahweh or worshipper of Yahweh . Obadiah may also refer to: Book of Obadiah, a book of the Hebrew Bible Obadiah (Khazar), a Khazar ruler Obadiah (Abarat), a fictional place in Abarat by… …
125Shimon ben Lakish — Simeon ben Lakish (in Hebrew, Shimon ben Lakish ; in Aramaic, Shimon bar Lakish or bar Lakisha ), better known by his nickname Resh Lakish, was an amora who lived in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina in the third century CE. He was reputedly …
126Norman Golb — (born in Chicago, Illinois in 1928) is the Ludwig Rosenberger Professor in Jewish History and Civilization at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He earned his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1954. He joined the faculty of… …
127Susan Ertz — (1894 ndash; April 11, 1985) was a British fiction writer and novelist, known for her sentimental tales of genteel life in the country. Contemporary Authors , Thomson Gale, August 2003. ISBN 0 7876 6635 1 ] She was born in Walton on Thames,… …
128Mission (LDS Church) — This article is about a geographical administrative area within the LDS Church. For a discussion of the proselytizing or service assignment fulfilled by Latter day Saints, see Missionary (LDS Church). A mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of… …
