Word: orthodox
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...surface, at least, the census statistics continue to show a dramatic deterioration in orthodox marriages. Between 1970 and this year, the share of married couples among the nation's 86.8 million households fell from 70.5% to 58%, replaced by an explosion of single people living alone. Some 20.6 million Americans now live by themselves, a 90% jump in one-person households over 15 years. Much of this is due to widowhood or divorce, as is the near doubling since 1970 of single people who head households. Single-parent families now account for 14.3% of U.S. households...
...ultra-Orthodox movement in Judaism known as Hasidism is alien and vaguely unsettling to some Gentiles and even to many modernized Jews. Hasidic men, bearded, black-hatted and clad in severe dark suits, take to their streets to dance in spiritual celebration on joyous holy days. The strictly observant women dress to conceal their elbows and knees and cover their shorn hair with wigs. Members of tightly knit, Yiddish-speaking Hasidic communities, under the virtually absolute sway of a grand rabbi, preserve a way of life that began long ago in Eastern Europe...
...particulars of strict Orthodox observance fill the Lubavitchers' lives. At the mikvah (ritual bath), in which a woman immerses herself after her menstrual period, dental floss and cotton swabs are provided for removal of the tiniest particles so purifying water will wash the entire body. One evening, Harris undergoes the first ritual bath of her life, an experience that produces a momentary touch of Hasidic ecstasy as memories well up of her grandmother and the two sons Harris has borne...
...dozen Christian groups, ranging from Greek Orthodox to Evangelical Protestant, have long operated educational centers in Jerusalem without difficulty. So have the Mormons, but their local branch of Brigham Young University has now come under fire from Jews who fear that its real purpose is to serve as a center for convert-seeking missionaries...
...video clip from the Bosnian war is profoundly shocking: a Serb Orthodox priest can be seen blessing Serb troops from a unit known as the Scorpions as they head out on their mission in 1995. The same men are then shown forcing six emaciated Bosnian Muslims from the back of a canvas-covered truck. They bind the prisoners' hands, march them into a clearing and machine-gun them, one by one, while the others watch. The clip, filmed by the unit and obtained by a Serb human-rights investigator, aired last week in the Hague at the trial...