Vocab ListRabbi: A community leader schooled in the intricacies of Jewish law and ritual; a rabbi often leads Jewish worship.Ashkenazim: Jews originally from northern and eastern Europe.Crusades: A series of attacks by European Christians to recapture the Holy Land, which was held by Islam in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries CE.Sephardim: Jews whose families were expelled from Spain in 1492 and mainly joined communities around the Middle East and North Africa.Zionism: The belief in self-determination and that the Jews will return to their homeland. PAGE 1