Avodah Zarah

Avodah Zarah (Hebrew: "foreign worship," meaning "idolatry" or "strange worship") is the name of a tractate in the Talmud, located in Nezikin, the fourth Order of the Talmud dealing with damages. The main topic of the tractate is laws pertaining to Jews living amongst Gentiles, including regulations about the interaction between Jews and "idolaters" (who represented most of the Gentile population during the time of the Talmud), both for distancing Jews from the act of idolatry in every shape as well as distancing Jews from the threat of cultural assimilation.

Because of its subject matter, Avodah Zarah has probably been the most controversial tractate in the Talmud, and historically it has been the subject of criticism from the Christian Church. Christians view the polemic of the tractate as being directed at them, and as painting them as idolaters and immoral people. The traditional Orthodox Jewish attitude has been that the tractate was authored in times of the Roman persecution and that this is what is generally meant by "idolatry" in the tractate.

Zarah

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Zarah (television personality)

Zarah (born in Manila, Philippines) is an American television personality, television producer, recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Her earlier work as a musician included opening for the Goo Goo Dolls and was later popularized for inspiring youth from the television show, B InTune TV in 2005. Zarah, who came to Los Angeles at a young age, is a mix of Filipino, Spaniard and Chinese. She presently hosts the popular music-based teen show B InTune TV, achieving a global success of 200 million homes in the United States with broadcast affiliates of 54 countries worldwide including Canada, Europe and Asia. In 2012, the show renewed its eighth season syndicating nationally, reaching over 90 million television households on broadcast television in America as well as other countries around the globe.

Television career

B InTune TV (TV series)

Zarah is best known for her role as the host of a nationally syndicated daytime television show B InTune TV, which premiered on September 10, 2005 on Viacom and CBS Television Group and UPN Network stations in the United States.