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Cain
calendar (Hebrew: luah)
calf, golden
Canaan
Canaanites
candelabrum
candles
canon of Scripture
cantillation
cantor (Hebrew: hazzan)
capital punishment
Cardozo, Abraham (1626-1706)
Caro, Joseph (1488-1575)
celibacy
ceremonial objects
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985)
chair of Elijah
Chanukah
Chariot mysticism
charity (Hebrew: zedakah)
chastity
cherub
chief rabbi
Chmielnicki massacres
cholent
chosen people
Chronicles, Books of
circumcision
cities of refuge
codes of Jewish law
cohen
Cohen, Hermann (1842-1918)
commandments
compassion
confession
confession of faith
confirmation
Conservative Judaism
consistory
contraception
conversion from Judaism
conversion to Judaism
Copper Scroll
Córdoba
Cordovero, Moses (1522-70)
corporal punishment
cosmogeny
Costa, Isaac de (1798-1860)
courses, priestly
court Jews
courts
covenant
creation
creed
cremation
Crescas, Hasdai (c.1340-c.1412)
cruelty
crypto-Jews
cup of Elijah
curse
custom (Hebrew: minhag)
Cyrus the Great(fl. 6th century bce)
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Reprinted with permission from
A Concise Encyclopedia of Judaism
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by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Oneworld Publications.