Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While a large number of Jews cheered the coming of the end of days, it was always the orthodox, the strictest followers of the Jewish faith, who saw through these flakes and would have no part in the celebration. We zealots know how to ruin a good time...
...token Jew (coweringly played by Josh Lieb) among the characters is no more than a bundle of anti-semitic stereotypes. He dresses in European orthodox Jewish dress (no such Jew existed in Algeria at that time), and is the keeper of the money bags...
...diplomat. "Now that he is gone, they are falling out among themselves." Not all its members are equally committed to parliamentary democracy and presidential rule. Georgi Chanturia, the radical leader of the National Democratic Party, calls for a constitutional monarchy. Others advocate various forms of theocracy, uniting the Georgian Orthodox Church and the state...
...Irene may be the patron saint of peace, but last week her image provoked an unseemly squabble. Two days before Christmas, thieves stole a small jewel- encrusted painting of the saint from St. Irene Greek Orthodox Cathedral, which is located in Astoria, a predominantly Greek neighborhood in New York City. The icon, which congregationers say began to shed tears at the prospect of the Persian Gulf war, is valued by the church at $800,000. Church leaders went on television to plead for the icon's return. New York Mayor David Dinkins -- and the Mafia -- joined the appeal...
Then a representative of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America suggested not only that the icon had never wept, but also that the purported theft had been an inside job. St. Irene's bishop, Vikentios of Avlon, who belongs to a breakaway branch of the church, retorted that he would file a $50 million defamation suit against the archdiocese. The police say they have no evidence of fraud. If St. Irene was not crying before...