Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend George L. Paine, in his letter in today's CRIMSON presenting the orthodox view in favour of the erection of a chapel as a War Memorial, grants by implication that perhaps the most important object of a War Memorial is to aid in removing the possibility of future...
...Jewry classifies itself into Orthodox, Conservative and Reformed branches...
...Orthodox Jewry holds tightly to tradition, regulates its religious life largely by the Talmud. Its adherents are mainly immigrants from the Polish Pale and European ghettos, folks who segregate themselves with the living memory of pogroms and national oustings...
...Reformed might be termed modernist, the Orthodox fundamentalist. Between the two is the Conservative, a compromise which varies with the constitutions and by-laws of the particular congregation. Sometimes the determining on the fine points of such compromise creates bitter controversy (TIME, Mar. 30, RELIGION...
These three types are represented in the U. S. by national congregational and rabbinical organizations?the Reformed by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis; the Conservative by the United Synagogue; the Orthodox by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Union of Orthodox Congregations. All these honestly adhere to a fundamental spiritual unity. But in interpretation and in ritual they often hold bitterly apart with a stiff-neckedness persisting from the time of Exodus, when Moses smashed the first stone copy of the Ten Commandments in a rage...