Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greek sources, attracted the attention of FBI agents in Nairobi investigating last year's U.S. embassy bombing. On Feb. 12 four Greek intelligence agents told Ocalan to "move out as soon as possible because his whereabouts had been spotted." They offered to hide him at a local Greek Orthodox church or fly him to another state. "Ocalan turned down all the options," recounts Kranidiotis, who was with him in Nairobi, "but the officers tried to physically evict and drug him. That's when an Ocalan aide flashed a revolver under her throat and threatened to commit suicide if they dared...
...soap-operas, what makes the setting unusual is a remarkably generalized beauty, a kind of atmospheric attractiveness that immediately romanticizes the proceedings, however trivial. Here, there's a quite different kind of exoticization of the banal: these post-pubescents are forced to grow up in Israel--and they're Orthodox Jews...
...Orthodox world was foreign to most of the theatergoers (although a remarkable percentage wore Yarmulkehs, and laughed and applauded for thesame reason that it is enjoyable to look at familyphotoalbums: the amazement of seeing yourselfportrayed so perfectly): the manners of dress andmodes of speaking, the particular theology andphilosophy, the approach to modernity and theconflict between the secular and the sacred...
...very funny, as well: he does awonderful job of capturing, and director JesseKellerman '01 does an admirable job of harnessing,the quirks and mannerisms typical of the subjectcommunity. In a play whose strongest point was itssensitive and accurate portrayal of OrthodoxYeshiva life, the actors were perfect incarnationsof Orthodox teens: Jeremy Bronson '02 especially,playing the serious student Weisbard, bore an eeryresemblance to a hundred people I knew in my(Orthodox) high school. If The JerusalemDisease can focus on moments of stunningtriviality and can move clumsily, it is alsoalmost always energetic and verbally quick-witted...
...rewards of Nattel's research, that anchor the novel's loftier meanings. At muddy street level, Blaszka is stuck in poverty and provincial darkness. Typhus, cholera and rampaging Cossacks periodically cut down the defenseless population. Czarist laws keep Blaszka's youth from a modern formal education. But so do Orthodox parents who pray that their sons will devote themselves to Talmudic study and their daughters will aim no higher than the kitchen stove and the marriage...