Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world. The Jewish people suffered persecution due to the Holocaust and were left with nothing. No leader or land to call their own as everything has been taken from them. The history of the Jewish faith begins with the Hebrew Bible or Tanankh, which Christians call the Old Testament (Fisher, 2005). The story begins with Moses leading the people according to God's commandments. This includes new teachings and a book called the Talmund. The Jewish people believe that if they obey God's commands in turn, God will keep the promises he has made to them. The Torah is a set of rules given to the Jewish people by Moses. It contains rules for living a moral life, they were put in a book called the Torah. The sacred texts of Judaism are the Torah which are the rules for a moral life given to the Jewish people by Moses. The Talmund which are the texts studied by the rabbis, and the Tanankh which contains the writings that Christians consider the Old Testament. The Ten Commandments are the foundation of the Jewish faith. The Ten Commandments were given to the Jewish people by Moses as a guide to living a good life. They include: do not steal, do not commit adultery, and love your neighbor as yourself. The Ten Commandments were written on stone tablets, they also included “a set of social norms, prescribed religious holidays, and detailed instructions for building a portable tabernacle with a holy ark, the Ark of the Covenant, in which to store the stone tablets on which God has engraved the commandments” (Fisher, 2005). The first Jewish temple was built in Jerusalem by King Solomon, son of King David. David was a Sheppa… middle of paper… they suffered many hardships and worked hard to stay true to their roots. There are Orthodox Jews who are traditional and support the Hebrew Bible. There are Hasidic groups that practice withdrawal from the rest of the Jewish community. There are Lubavich Hasidim who are loyal in bringing their message to as many Jews as possible using today's technology (Fisher, 2005). The largest Jewish movement is Conservative Judaism. They are devoted to traditional Judaism, yet they are reaffirming it in modern terms so that it is not seen as a “dead religion” (Fisher, 2008). Women have now begun to dynamically develop their participation rights and would like to sit with men instead of behind a curtain in a synagogue. They also want to be ordained as rabbis. Judaism is being rediscovered and gaining more recognition than ever.