Word: orthodox
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Although her new self-defined gender role as a woman met suspicion in her native Orthodox Jewish community, Bornstein reconciled with her ailing mother, who had acknowledged her son-turned-daughter as a "lesbian" in a very closely-knit circle of friends...
...taking every precaution not to make this political," said Klapper, a rabbi to the Orthodox prayer community...
...fact that the Orthodox Church has come out in support of Kostunica was also to be expected. They actively supported the 1996 protests against Milosevic's attempts to steal the municipal elections...
...Institute of Politics. He appraised the chances of each contender on the Democratic side and chose Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry as the most likely vice presidential pick. Nyhan said that Lieberman would not be picked because the nation's heartland was not yet ready for an Orthodox Jew on the ticket...
...Even with the backing of the powerful Serbian Orthodox Church, which on Thursday declared Kostunica the winner and urged a peaceful transition, the opposition has a tough task ahead. Right now they're riding a wave of popular anger that will likely be sustained in the coming days as Milosevic blatantly tries to cheat Serb voters. But Milosevic may be calculating that if he manages to hold his regime together for a couple of weeks of street protest and conduct the runoff without Kostunica, the protests might eventually dissipate in disillusion. The challenge for the opposition, then, is to provoke...