Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul S. Appelbaum, a fourth year medical student, circulated the petition which has 46 signatures. Applebaum said yesterday, that orthodox students walk to services in Brookline and then return for Saturday classes where religious beliefs prevent their taking notes...
...second part of the campaign seeks to democratize the economy by eliminating the private ownership of large corporations. Although this is economic democracy in the more orthodox socialist sense, the method proposed is rather innovative. The same L.O. convention which called for the abolition of Paragraph 32 also commissioned L.O. economist Rudolf Meidner to do a study of "wage-earners' funds" for the control of corporate profits. Originally, the intent was to get at the profits left behind by L.O.'s solidarity wage policy in high wage firms. What has emerged, however, is a plan for the gradual socialization...
Communication breaks down. Recently a kind of group solipsism has emerged, a sense that "our" insights can only be shared and understood by our members, our kind. Unless one is a Pentecostalist, an Orthodox Jew, a woman, an Anglo-Saxon, a black, a yogi, a youth, an "ethnic," one whose consciousness has been shaped in a particular way, he or she remains an idiot, in the original meaning of the word, an ignorant outsider...
...enforcing these and other rules, the government's Orthodox-controlled Ministry of Religious Affairs long ago set up an FBI-like system of files and informers to help figure out who can marry and who cannot. Despite persistent rumors, the ministry has continually denied that it keeps a blacklist. Then someone leaked to reporters the lists of unmarriageables that the ministry had distributed to rabbinical councils and marriage registrars across Israel. The lists include more than 10,000 names. Said Ha'aretz, Israel's leading daily: "It's a scandal which no democratic society can stomach...
Traditionalists have rallied to the defense of the lists. Zevulun Hammer, a Knesset member who belongs to the staunchly Orthodox National Religious Party, argues that they are essential "if the rabbinical registrars are to do their work according to halakhic law." That will not satisfy the growing number of Israelis who want laws permitting civil marriage. Until now change has been impossible because, although only one-fifth of the populace consider themselves to be religious, the N.R.P. provides essential votes for the coalition government. But the blacklist scandal could shift the political realities during the Knesset session that opens next...