Jews
From Activating Evolution
A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the ancient Middle East. The ethnicity and the religion of Judaism, the traditional faith of the Jewish nation, are strongly interrelated, and converts to Judaism are both included and have been absorbed within the Jewish people throughout the millennia.
The Jews have survived a long history of persecution in many different lands, resulting in a population that has fluctuated both in numbers and distribution over the centuries. Today, most authorities place the number of Jews between 12 and 14 million, representing 0.2% of the current estimated world population.[5] According to the Jewish Agency, for the year 2007 there are 13.2 million Jews worldwide; 5.4 million (40.9%) in Israel, 5.3 million (40.2%) in the United States, and the remainder distributed in communities of varying sizes around the world.[6] These numbers include all those who consider themselves Jews whether or not affiliated, and, with the exception of Israel's Jewish population, do not include those who do not consider themselves Jews or who are not Jewish by halakha. The total world Jewish population, however, is difficult to measure. In addition to halakhic considerations, there are secular, political, and ancestral identification factors in defining who is a Jew that increase the figure considerably
[edit] Other People
Other people in the same God set as Jews are:
[edit] Outside Links
- WikiPedia [1]]
- Judaism 101 [[2]]
