Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend Shai A. Held '94 walks in. Heller suddenly takes off his necktie and wraps it around his head claiming that "he has a love/hate relationship with formal wear." The two playfully trade insults and then Held leaves, jokingly comparing Heller to the Lubavitcher rebbe, the head of an Orthodox Jewish sect, as he backs out the door...
Smokes pot daily. First got high with hisfreshman year roommate who is now an Orthodox Jew.Describes himself as a "lazy piece of shit." LikesSesame Street and bullhorns...
...Lemon test is at best confusing, at worst unfair, and in any event destined to change. The current challenge has come in the case of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet. Kiryas Joel is a municipality in upstate New York where virtually all citizens are in the Satmar sect of Hasidic Orthodox Jewry. Kiryas Joel adheres rigidly to Old World dress and ways and maintains a close-knit, Yiddish-speaking community that tries to shield itself from outside influences. TV, movies and even higher education are shunned...
...crowded office contains a number of icons. Some are modern. Several, in black and white, are of a martyred President. Another is of a living one. And then there are the literal icons: sad-eyed saints presented to Stephanopoulos, son and grandson of priests, by others in the Greek Orthodox community. The saints stood close to a higher being. None of them had speakerphones, but most of them suffered for expressing what they believed were wishes from above...
...repentance. "It's a crime, a terrible crime, and I condemn it totally," said Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, which has said that if it returns to power it will not abide by the agreement for Palestinian self-rule. The National Religious Party, composed of the strictly Orthodox who, like Goldstein, are totally opposed to trading any part of the West Bank for peace, said the massacre had "cast a shadow on the entire people...