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God chooses Abraham to be the father of Isaac, the founder of Jewish people.
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Abraham circumcises himself, symbolizing a covenant between God and all his descendants. God promises to make Abraham a father of a great nation and to give his descendants the land that later became Israel. This is where circumcision came from in Judaism
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For hundreds of years, Jews are enslaved in Egypt. Moses (Jewish Egyptian prince) is appointed Gods prophet. Around 1280 BCE he lead his people out of enslavement on a journey to the Exodus. Moses presents the Israelites with the Ten Commandments and forms a new covenant with God. This lays foundation for the Jewish tradition/
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The First Temple is built on Mount Moriah. The temple houses to Ark of the Covenant, which is a holy relic that contains the Ten Commandments. Hundreds of years later, the temple is destroyed.
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This becomes one of the greatest tragedies of a Jewish tradition. Jews rebel in response to years of cruelty by Roman rulers. In 70 Romans breach the walls of Jerusalem, destroying the second temple and kill one million Jews. In 132, a second revolt results in Jews being banned from Jerusalem
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Jewish academics focus on compiling and codifying the teachings of the Rabbis. A Mishna is a collection of rabbinic teachings, sayings, and interpretations
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After King Solomon died, the land of Hebrews split into two kingdoms: the kingdom of Israel in the north and the kingdom of Judah in the south. Separated for over 200 years, the Hebrews begin to spit into even smaller groups
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Members of the First Crusade massacre Jewish citizens of European cities. This launches centuries of pogroms against Jews in Europe
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Rabbi Tov founds Hasidism, one of the most religious movements in Jewish history.
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Theodore Herzl convenes the First Zionist Congress. It is the first major gathering of Jews to discuss the Zionist movement. The movement in which seeks to establish a Jewish nation after centuries of Jews living away from Israel
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A genocide during WWII in which Nazi Germany murdered six million European Jews.
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This is the first of many anti-Jewish statutes aiming to rescind Jewish rights.
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After the Holocaust, almost 700,000 Jews immigrate to Israel.