History+and+origins

... and origins  At the beginning of Judiasm they being held by the Egyptions. They followed Moses and escaped but wandered the desert for  forty years. They then found the Promise Land, which included Jerusalum. They stayed here for several centuries until 722 B.C.  when the northern part of the Promise Land fell to Assyrian leaders. In 586 B.C. the Babylonians had conquered Jerusalem. After this many armies including the Persians, Macedonians, Greeks, Syrians, and Romans invaded the Promise Land and in 70 A.D.  the Romans destroyed Jerusalem. In 167 A.D. a religous rebellion of the Jews brought along Hanukkah which celebrates the  independence of Judiasm. The Jews fled to Europe and parts of Asia. This migration is known as Diaspora. Here, they lived in the  ghettoes and were getting massacred. The biggest of these massacres was the Holocuast which was the slughter of 6 million Jews  from 1939 to 1945 by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Many Jews then moved to the U.S. and that is where the majority of the  Jewish population reside. *all info at []