Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks protesting Jewish youths and rabbis have pressured the National Council of Churches to oust Archbishop Valerian Trifa, head of the Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, from its governing board. The problem: Trifa, 62, stands accused of having incited mobs that murdered hundreds of Jews in Rumania...
...hastily called emergency meeting in Chicago Oct. 30, the Council Executive Committee took an unprecedented step. Declaring that "we cannot allow any doubt about a complete repudiation" of the atrocities of the Nazi era, they called upon the Orthodox Church in America, parent body of Trifa's Rumanian churches, to ask Trifa to suspend his National Council activities until the federal courts, and an investigation by the Orthodox Church, settle the case...
Among Christians, a group of women theologians and scholars appointed by the National Council of Churches, an umbrella organization for Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches, recently produced a booklet called The Liberating Word (Westminster Press; $3.95). It argues that the Bible's divine message is encrusted with nondivine notions of male dominance that the biblical authors drew from their ancient cultures, not from religious inspiration. The 96-page booklet urges today's readers, clergy as well as laity, to reinterpret the Bible accordingly...
Here's where I make good my escape. Only this elderly orthodox Jewish doorkeeper stands between me and the lunch with my deferential secretary I so richly deserve...
...that nice little orthodox Jewish man really chasing me down the hall like I just took away his last bagel...