Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal life is Orthodox enough to satisfy a Pharisee. Each morning he rises at 5 :30 so that he can attend synagogue services before breakfast. Then for an hour or two before the day's work at the seminary, he prays and studies the Torah. Most of his faculty are equally observant of Jewish law and tradition. But Orthodox Jews are scandalized that some of the seminary's 23-man board of directors are members of Reform synagogues.* And even some Conservative Jews are shocked at Finkelstein's habit of inviting Christian theologians (e.g., Reinhold Niebuhr...
...everyday routine in an old-school Orthodox home might make a Scotch Presbyterian Sunday seem frivolous. But Louis seemed to have been born with a rabbinical cap on his head. "I can't remember a time," he says, "when anything meant more than the study...
...Great Confession. Louis Finkelstein was born in Cincinnati on June 14, 1895. His father, Simon J. Finkelstein, a strong-minded Orthodox rabbi from Slobodka, Lithuania, moved to a congregation in Brooklyn when Louis was seven. It was there, in Brooklyn's heavily Jewish Brownsville district, that Louis grew...
Like every Orthodox Jewish boy, he first learned the great monotheistic confession of faith which every devout Jew hopes to have the strength to repeat on his deathbed: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One." He learned the complex system of ritual blessings with which the Orthodox Jew sanctifies every important action of the day: the thanks on awakening (for the day, for the power of sight, for the creation of the earth, for the power to walk, for the renewal of his strength, for not being an idolator or a slave or a woman...
...enemy of the Jews whose story is told in the Book of Esther. † There is no agreement about the exact number of Orthodox, Reform and Conservative Jews. Best current estimates: about 175,000 "families" enrolled in U.S. Orthodox congregations, 140,000 in Reform congregations, 150,000 in Conservative congregations. But each group claims a large additional number of unenrolled worshipers. *Among them: U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman. *A Jewish woman, at this point in her morning prayers, humbly thanks God that He has created her according to His will. *Oldest and biggest: Hebrew Union College (Reform) in Cincinnati...