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Word: nonorthodox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orthodoxy, the largest of Judaism's three branches. About a quarter of the 5,600,000 Jews in the U.S. are Orthodox. Elsewhere, a Jew who is at all religiously observant will, more often than not, be Orthodox; of Israel's 6,000 synagogues, only nine are nonOrthodox. Far more than Reform or Conservative Judaism, Orthodoxy lives by the letter of God's law. It accepts every word of the Hebrew Bible as divinely inspired and insists that the God-fearing Jew must keep every one of the 613 rules of Halaka-the Scripture-based religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judaism: Orthodoxy's New Look | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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