JEWS
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alcoholism: w75 560
Atonement Day: su 100-101
attitude of Christendom’s churches toward: w83 5/15 15
attitude toward—
air flights over the city of Jerusalem: g84 6/22 30
Bar Kokhba: g83 3/22 8-9
Gentiles: w74 463-464; w52 337; w51 117-118, 125; w38 22
images: g63 8/22 6-7
Jesus Christ: g81 6/22 17-18; g76 4/8 17-23; w75 8; w74 691-692; g74 12/22 17; pm 367; g71 12/8 3-6, 9; w70 358, 368-369, 681, 683, 715; w66 534-537; w64 12, 73-74, 197, 238-239, 575-576; yb64 13; g64 1/22 30; bf 500; g63 5/8 5-6; g63 9/22 27-28; g63 12/22 31; w62 231-233; ns 280; w60 206-209; w57 679-680; w56 324-328; w49 243; g49 7/22 8; ep 82-83
millennial hope: w81 4/15 4-8
temple: w73 214; w64 581-583
walking upon the soil of the temple mount: g84 6/22 30
authority of execution: ad 385; w68 543-544
Baghdad, Iraq, community: g78 3/8 29
baptism: w72 689-690; w70 303; km 1/68 5
Bar Mitzvah: w78 10/15 31
beliefs: w78 7/15 31; ad 577; w67 639; w66 108; g66 3/22 6-8; g66 11/22 27-28; w65 38, 416; im 257-258; g61 7/8 27; w60 206-208; w58 551; nh 140; g52 11/8 16; g48 4/22 22-23; w46 327; ep 74-84; w31 254
God’s name in writing not to be erased: g85 3/8 30
immortality of the soul: w81 4/15 4, 6-8; g81 6/22 18-19
merit of ancestors benefits descendants: g76 4/8 21-22
Messiah expected in first century C.E.: w82 10/1 6
regarding Kingdom: g79 1/22 28
regarding Messiah: w84 12/1 9-10; g83 3/22 3-5, 8; hp 142; g76 4/8 25-26; g73 9/8 27-28; g71 12/8 7-9; w66 101; w64 454, 456, 575; g63 5/8 5-6; g63 7/8 28; g63 9/22 27; w60 207; w59 357; w57 677-680; w56 327-328; w54 400; w31 254
Bible printing: w61 229
Bible writers: w85 11/1 27; g79 10/8 4; w61 448; g61 4/22 9; w60 165, 587-588; w52 494
burial customs: g80 3/8 18
calendars: Rbi8 1587; ad 277-279; g68 9/22 13-14; g67 12/22 16; g66 1/8 22-24; g66 9/22 29; w58 297-300; g35 3/13 356
cast off: w74 127-128; w67 484; im 396; w64 108, 629-630; pw 22; w58 148; pa 157-160; w57 562; nh 142-143; lg 212-213; w51 562, 597; w47 164; w45 117-119, 260-261; w34 118; jh 176
Christmas: w78 12/15 4
chronology: w75 63-64
churches’ attitude toward persecution of, in Nazi Germany: g83 5/8 30
comments on pope’s failure to aid Jews in Nazi Germany: g83 2/8 30
complaints over Germany’s Passion play: g80 7/8 30
conflict with Arabs over Jerusalem: w64 649, 652
conventions: w67 435-443
conversion en masse not prophesied: w85 1/15 5-6
corruption: w79 9/1 18-19, 21
courts: w78 4/15 21
debate between two, regarding prophecy of 70 weeks: g76 4/8 26
Diaspora: w73 582
discussion: ad 933-934; g70 5/22 27-28
superstition regarding: w83 3/15 5-6; w80 2/1 9-10; w78 3/15 24; w78 5/1 4-5; w71 389-390; w69 549-551
divisions: g74 5/8 30; g72 2/22 30; g70 5/22 27; w66 532-533; w61 762-763
Ethiopian Falasha sect: g75 7/8 30
exile by Romans: ad 540-541
exile in Babylon: kc 136-138, 187-189; ts 158-159; w72 723-724, 745; ad 540; w68 687-688; w67 260; w66 683; w65 90, 281-282, 345-346, 375-376; w64 75, 756; w63 517; bf 135-137, 170-171, 182, 196, 206, 212, 246-247, 272, 287, 297, 504, 557; w59 250-251; w58 147; pa 102-116; yw 107-108; sr55 128-129; nh 130; lg 211-212; w49 328-329; sa37 27
restoration from: w85 5/15 31; w83 3/15 18; w80 1/1 28; w79 3/1 29-31; w78 7/1 18; po 130-131; w72 300-301, 305-307, 500, 724; pm 28-30; g72 3/8 27-28; w71 649; ad 410; kj 299-300; w68 688-689; w66 696-697, 752; w65 312, 378, 506-509, 566-569; w64 79-80; w63 517, 555; bf 212, 248-249, 258-259, 271-272, 293, 341, 364-375, 557
experiences:
cantor accepts truth: g71 11/8 12-15
Jews learn truth: g83 3/22 20-24; g81 6/22 16-20; w78 10/1 20-21; g76 5/22 23; w71 574-575; g71 1/8 24; g71 11/8 12-15; yb70 219-220; yb67 79-80; yb66 68-69; w64 340; yb61 119, 199-200
Witness stand on blood explained to: yb66 68-69
failure to accept the Messiah: w83 8/15 15-16, 19
family life in ancient Rome: fl 7; g78 6/22 4
fasting: pm 234-238; w71 536; ad 567-568
festivals: ad 573-579, 1272-1274, 1360-1361; w70 335; w69 274-275; g68 12/8 4; w67 425-443; li 158-160
funerals: w61 581
genealogical records: w78 3/15 28-31; w78 4/1 12-15; w78 10/15 29; ad 634-641; w63 138; w58 494, 728; pa 157
Haman’s plot to destroy: w79 3/15 16, 18-22; ad 706; g69 8/22 27; w67 432; w64 657; w56 651; sr55 254-255; w50 190-191; fa 40-42; pr32 76-77, 83-85; w31 181-183
Hasidim:
conflict between factions of: g77 7/22 29-30
temple vandalized by: g80 4/22 31
Witnesses mobbed by: w77 471
history from Babylonian exile to Jesus: w68 743-744; w67 432-434; w66 529-533; bf 255, 478; w59 154-155, 629-630, 728-729; pa 118-120; yw 76-78, 244-246; w53 293-294, 613-616; nh 139-140; w50 206-207, 238-239; ep 86-90, 173-186, 253-261; g34 3/28 405-406; w31 35-41, 51-58, 67-73
how Jews who were expelled from the synagogue were treated: w81 9/15 21
hypocrisy: w81 6/15 18; w78 9/1 14-15
Inquisition: w60 598; w56 326; g47 10/8 21-22; g42 8/5 7-8; g38 11/16 21-22
invitation to Kingdom: w79 11/15 21; w74 687-688, 690-695, 698-699; po 161-164; g69 9/22 27; w66 124-125; ns 282-283; w58 149-150, 154, 461-463; el 111; w45 116; w44 293-295; w43 38
Jerusalem’s desolation (607-537 B.C.E.): g72 5/8 27-28
Jerusalem’s destruction (607 B.C.E.): w83 3/15 18; w80 3/1 14; ad 912
Jerusalem’s destruction (70 C.E.): w85 10/1 8-9, 12; ce 222-223; g84 8/22 8; w82 11/15 3-4; w74 425-429; w74 680-683, 693-694; ka 294-304; w72 371-372; ad 541, 914-915; kj 135, 210, 233, 316, 351; te 33-34; g71 12/8 5-6; w70 47-49; w67 249; qm 172; w66 649-650, 682-683, 687; w65 234; w64 239, 582-583, 648, 677; g64 2/22 7; w63 639-640; w62 233, 650; ns 235; g60 10/8 28; w59 212, 581, 654; w58 463; pa 156-160; yw 92; qm55 172; sr55 50, 232; w54 438-442; nh 143, 273-274; w51 562; w47 279; w46 247, 362; w44 295; w41 220
Judaism:
decline: g80 2/22 19; g74 8/8 29-30; g65 2/22 30
Karaites: g57 2/22 21-23
language: g65 11/22 16-18
last days of Jewish system: w80 10/1 20-23
leaders’ view of common people: w80 5/1 6-7; cj 163; w78 10/15 27; w77 380-381; ad 65; w60 208-209; w54 111; w51 118; w43 323; tf 16
length of Jewish Age: w80 10/1 23
marriage: g74 5/22 29-30; g71 8/22 30
arrangements: w60 661-663; g58 9/22 25-26; w56 567-568, 590; w53 406; w51 122, 237-238; el 146, 152-153; ho 38
foreign wives in Ezra’s day: w79 2/1 30-31; w79 4/15 30
meaning of term: ad 933; g70 5/22 28; w65 336; g63 4/8 3-4; w60 587; lg 209; w51 31; w37 251; ar 11; fa 4; w31 271
modern-day return to Palestine: w73 747; kj 59, 67; w67 483-484; w66 117-119; w65 335; im 200-201; w63 178; g63 4/8 3-4; w62 478; g59 5/8 21; w58 133-136, 146-148; lg 208, 214-217; w49 244-252; w39 239; v-2 258, 267; w31 253-254
music: g77 7/8 27; g73 1/8 29; ad 1191-1193; w70 220-221
nationalism: w65 6; yb65 7-8
Parthian rule: bf 394-395
persecution: g85 6/8 10; w78 10/15 18-19; w75 294; w67 434; g66 5/22 10; g64 3/22 3-4; g64 5/8 9-18; g64 7/8 3; bf 395; w60 598; w56 325-326; g56 11/8 16-20; g56 12/22 17-20; lg 207; g49 7/8 27-28; g49 7/22 3-7; g48 4/8 27-28; w47 53, 73; g47 10/8 21-22; g46 9/22 3-7; w45 115; g45 2/28 10-11; g45 8/15 26-28; g44 1/19 19; g44 5/24 6-7; g44 11/8 30-31; g43 3/17 19-21; g43 6/23 15; g43 12/22 20-21; g42 8/5 5-8; g42 8/19 3-7; g40 2/7 20-21; g40 6/12 24-27; g39 1/25 21-22; g39 7/26 3-6; g39 11/15 16-18; g38 5/4 7-8; g38 8/10 10; g38 12/14 7-9; g37 3/10 360-361; w36 202; g36 4/8 428-429; g36 8/26 762; g35 10/9 6; g34 5/9 485
population statistics: w79 11/15 21; g73 2/8 31; fm 172; w66 111, 377; w65 678; w64 107; g63 7/8 29; w60 579; g57 5/22 20; g57 6/22 28; g38 9/21 24
United States: g84 7/22 29-30
prayer: w78 8/1 14
resided in Babylon during Christian era: w72 669; w66 152, 154; bf 396, 444-445, 478
revolts against Rome: po 133; ad 854; kj 351; w66 253-255; li 311-313; g66 9/22 6; w64 677; w62 649-650, 660
Sabbath observance: g78 6/8 27-28
Orthodox and secular Israelis clash over: g77 10/8 31
salvation: w58 150-151; lg 213, 218; g46 1/2 14-15; w45 116
sects among: w83 9/15 16
slavery in Egypt: po 106-109; ad 497; w70 585-586; w60 315; pa 55-61; yw 352; sr55 122-125; w53 159; w47 73; w45 301; ki 93-98; w43 351-352; g35 3/27 391-395; w34 85-88
Soviet Union: g61 6/8 30
spiritual: w74 126-128; w73 747-749; g70 5/22 28; fm 86-87; w65 336; w64 655; g63 4/8 4; w60 245, 587; pa 152-153; sr55 173; w53 184, 336; lg 215; w51 562-564; el 111; w45 116; w43 213; w38 302-303
not all Christians are: w81 1/15 27-31
Star of David: g68 11/8 12
symbolic (book of Esther): w79 3/15 17, 20-21; sr55 257-258; w50 191; pr32 17-18, 33, 78, 153-165; w31 149, 153, 182, 229-232
synagogues: g73 1/8 29; w66 530; im 286-287; g64 4/22 6; g64 11/8 22; w61 412-415, 538, 689-690, 761-764; g61 6/8 30; w60 595-598; w59 653-655; g57 11/8 26; w52 72; w43 184
attendance: g79 1/8 30; w74 15
gambling: g78 3/8 30
money raising: w82 11/15 26
‘ten men take hold of skirt of Jew’ (Zec 8:23): su 145-151; pm 255-258; w59 531; w58 157; w56 699; sr55 299; s 154-155; w37 251
traditions: w78 4/1 30-31; w78 6/1 14; w78 7/1 5, 19; w72 560-561; ad 1610; w66 682; g65 2/22 6; g64 4/22 8
unfaithfulness: w79 3/1 9-11
view of a rabbi as to why God allows evil and suffering: w83 4/15 28
Witnesses during Nazi era: yb86 160-162
witnessing to: ka 265-266; qm 194-195; w56 328-329; qm55 194-195; w54 617-619; ta 197-198
Witness kindness to German Jews: g75 2/22 22
Zealots: g84 8/22 7-8