SRS 3314 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Rabbinic Judaism, Jewish Diaspora, Jewish Holidays

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 3314
• Professor: Rebecca Margolis

Document Summary

Judaism is an ethnicity rather than a culture or religion. Objectives: diversity of jewish practices, speak about issues in jewish culture, popular and scholarly knowledge. Jews in canada: roughly 388,000 jews in canada, but less than 20% eat a kosher diet, less than 20% attend a synagogue regularly, and marry a non-jews and raise non-jewish offspring. Hasidism: old school jewish group out of montr al, they believe when the messiah comes everyone that is dead will be resurrected, all living and dead individuals will be sent to the temple in jerusalem. It was destroyed it will be fixed: the better you act, the faster the messiah will come and make everything better. Torah: body of teaching and shared history. If you want to become jewish you must undergo a long process involving learning a new language, eating kosher, observing holidays, and studying.