Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labor-saving devices for the home, thousands of American women are voluntarily carrying out additional household chores. Despite rabbinical worries about secularization and the loss of religious identity, a surprising number of modern Jewish women-Orthodox, Conservative and even Reform-have decided to undertake the difficult but homely craft of maintaining a kosher home. "The Orthodox always stood for it," says Jewish Sociologist Marshall Sklare. "Today they stand for it more so. The Conservatives, in the past, stood for it rather passively. Now they stand for it actively. And Reform Judaism has a new sensitivity to the importance...
...delegates were still primarily concerned with the ecclesiastical and theological problems of church union. The marching orders issued by the Fourth Assembly in Uppsala, which ended last week, were primarily secular rather than sacred. In a series of concrete, specific resolutions, the 700 delegates from 235 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches at the Uppsala meeting called upon their fellow Christians to redirect their attention to the social, political and economic problems facing mankind...
Another Arab invasion? Hardly. The emergency was an attempt by Reform Jews to hold a worship service with men and women praying together at the sacred Wailing Wall, the only remaining ruin of Judaism's Second Temple. Such a mixed service would defy an Orthodox rule that men and women must worship separately. Dissuaded from approaching the Wall by Orthodox protests, the Reform Jews suspended their service. The crisis over the Wall was the high point of the first conference in Jerusalem of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, an organization of Reform and Liberal congregations with a combined...
...government to grant Reform Judaism wider legal status in Israel, demanding that 1) Reform rabbis be permitted to officiate at weddings and funerals, 2) conversions to Judaism carried out by Reform rabbis be legally recognized, and 3) the government provide financial aid to Reform groups, as it does to Orthodox congregations...
...endeavoring to expand the country's Reform movement. He could point out that in the U.S., more and more Reform families actively celebrate religious holidays such as Sukkot (Feast of the Tabernacles) and recite the traditional Kiddush (sanctification of the wine) on Friday night. Says Hirsch: "Even the Orthodox in America don't call us goyim [Hebrew for gentiles] any more." It may take a while for their Israeli counterparts to change their minds...