Yet 30 years later, many questions about Jonestown remain only partly answered. Who was Jones, and what was life like in the jungle community built by his followers? Why did they believe in him so unquestioningly? And were their deaths a random act of madness, or could a similar horror ever happen again?
Another name used for the people is Children of Israel or Israelites, which refers to the fact that the people are descendants of Jacob, who was also called Israel. The word Jew (in Hebrew, Yehudi) is derived from the name Judah, which was the name of one of Jacob's twelve sons.Judah was the ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel, which was named after him. Likewise, the word Judaism literally means Judah-ism, that is, the religion of the Yehudim.rigins of the Words Jew and Judaism. The original name for the people we now call Jews was Hebrews. The word Hebrew (in Hebrew, Ivri) is first used in the Torah to describe Abraham (Gen. 14:13).
, Oxford University Press, besides the Irish origin, the surname may be Jewish from Belarus: Slaven - metronymic (derived from one's mother or maternal ancestors) from the Yiddish female personal name Slave (from the Slavic word slava 'glory', 'fame', 'praise') plus the eastern Slavic possessive suffix-in..lthough our surname is fairly uncommon, it doesn't mean that we all have the same background. In fact, there are several different origins and meanings, depending on where our ancestors lived a few hundred years ago.