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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anti-Semite | An anti-Semite is a person who holds prejudice, discrimination, or hostility toward Jewish people. Antisemitism is the prejudice, discrimination, or hostile behavior directed toward Jews as a group or as individuals. |
| Hebrew | A language that is thousands of years old and used in Jewish prayers, holidays, and the Torah (Jewish holy book of the laws of how to live a righteous life). |
| Ignorant | a lack of knowledge, awareness, or understanding. It can apply to a specific topic, a particular situation, or knowledge in general. The term can also be used informally to describe someone who is rude or uncivilized. |
| Proactive | describes a person, policy, or action that controls a situation by causing something to happen rather than just reacting to it after it occurs. It means acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes |
| Ram | A male sheep. Its horn is used to make the shofar, which is blown during Jewish holidays (including Rosh Hashanah). |
| Reactive: | 1) showing a response to a stimulus (pupils are reactive to light), 2) acting in response to a situation rather than creating or controlling it OR 3) having a tendency to react chemically. |
| Semite: | a member of any of the people who speak/spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs. |
| Theology | the study of God, the nature of God and religious belief. |
| Sympathy vs. Empathy | Sympathy and empathy both mean a caring response to the emotional state of another person, but a distinction between them: while sympathy is a feeling of sincere concern for someone who is experiencing something difficult or painful, empathy involves havi |