Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orthodox Jew, Ben-Uri argues that his version of the ark is evidence that, for all of today's demythologizing, the Bible has a basis in fact. "I be lieve," says he, "that the Bible is a true account of what actually happened. It is up to us to unravel its secrets...
...adducing the comparatively small number of non-Orthodox synagogues as evidence for the ascendancy of Orthodox Judaism in Israel [Jan. 19], you failed to mention the all-important consideration that these facilities were financed entirely by private contributions, whereas Orthodox synagogues, schools and even office buildings are funded by the state. The Orthodox establishment guards jealously against any attempts to separate church and state and to broaden the religious base in Israel...
...type of parochial attitude on the part of Israel's religious authorities, fortified by the reluctance of Reform and Conservative officials to assert their rights, that is largely responsible for the poor showing of Progressive Judaism in Israel and the consequent polarization of the Jewish population between the Orthodox and secular camps...
This division was reflected at the Jerusalem conference, which was bitterly opposed by a minority of right-wing Orthodox Jews who foresaw it as an at tempt to water down Halaka. Israel's chief rabbis, who endorsed the conference, even received threatening messages-forcing the sessions to be held under police guard. While firmly denying any intention of diluting the law, conference leaders insisted on the need for further enhancing Orthodoxy's appeal to all Jewry. At the session's end, the delegates created a permanent committee to coordinate further Orthodox efforts to make tradition compatible with...
...would convert to Judaism," he often quips, "if the operation didn't hurt so much"-but he claims that he follows his own faith devoutly. When Barenboim married Jacqueline Du Pre in Israel last summer, Mehta flew over, donned a skullcap and prayer shawl, and joined the Orthodox Jewish ceremony as "Moishe Cohen." The officiating rabbi became suspicious because Mehta did not speak Hebrew. "I'm a Persian Jew," Mehta explained to him, "and we don't speak Hebrew." After the other guests had chanted Hasidic songs for the couple, Mehta sang themes from Dvorak...