- "Judaism is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people."
The oldest of the Abrahamic religions, it is based on a belief in one God and the Hebrew Bible.
- "Modern Judaism evolved from Yahwism, the religion of ancient Israel and Judah, by the late 6th century BCE, and is thus considered one of the oldest monotheistic religions."
- "The Torah is part of the larger text known as the Tanakh... The Hebrew word torah can mean 'teaching,' 'law,' or 'instruction'."
- "The Torah's supplemental oral tradition is represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud."
- "Judaism's texts, traditions, and values strongly influenced later Abrahamic religions, including Christianity and Islam."
- "The largest Jewish religious movements are Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, and Reform Judaism."
- "Orthodox Judaism maintains that the Torah and halakha are divine in origin, eternal and unalterable, and that they should be strictly followed."
- "Conservative Judaism generally promotes a more traditionalist interpretation of Judaism's requirements than Reform Judaism."
- "A typical Reform position is that halakha should be viewed as a set of general guidelines rather than as a set of restrictions and obligations whose observance is required of all Jews."
- "In 2021, about 45.6% of all Jews resided in Israel and another 42.1% resided in the United States and Canada..."
- "Major sources of difference between these groups are their approaches to halakha (Jewish law), the authority of the rabbinic tradition, and the significance of the State of Israel."
- "Authority on theological and legal matters is not vested in any one person or organization, but in the sacred texts and the rabbis and scholars who interpret them."
- "Jews are an ethnoreligious group including those born Jewish (or 'ethnic Jews'), in addition to converts to Judaism."
- "In 2019, the world Jewish population was estimated at 14.7 million, or roughly 0.2% of the total world population."
- "In 2021, about 45.6% of all Jews resided in Israel and another 42.1% resided in the United States and Canada..."
- "It has its roots as an organized religion in the Middle East during the Bronze Age."
- "The Tanakh is also known to secular scholars of religion as the Hebrew Bible, and to Christians as the 'Old Testament'."
- "Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenant that God established with the Israelites, their ancestors."
- "Modern Judaism evolved from Yahwism, the religion of ancient Israel and Judah, by the late 6th century BCE, and is thus considered one of the oldest monotheistic religions."
- "Hebraism, like Hellenism, played a seminal role in the formation of Western civilization through its impact as a core background element of Early Christianity."