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Taking dress, for example, the stereotype is of "characteristic" black hats and coats--but there are other modes of dress as well among religious sects, and even within the "black-hat-and-coat" variety, there is considerable variation. Chabad, which is part of the Lubavitch movement, is one such sect; one of its goals is to reach out to other, less religious Jews and teach them about their heritage and about the Halacha. They are not, as a rule, judgmental about other Jews. It's too bad you did not attempt to investigate Chabad further and try to understand some...
Members of the Chabad House of Cambridge, an orthodox Jewish sect, passed out informational flyers on campus late last week in violation of College policy...
...from Chabad, with long black coats and black hats characteristic of their sect, handed our flourescent flyers with invitations to a Friday night dinner and information about a course on Judaism called "Judaism...
...slapped with a $10 million sexual-harassment suit in California). And his wish to make peace among the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism has so infuriated a few that earlier this year three members of his inner circle were found murdered in their beds, apparently by a breakaway sect...
...raid to be more of a publicity stunt than a necessary action. The film is unflinching in its characterization of the ATF as a rogue agency that used the Waco standoff to create an appearance of legitimacy through semantics. What would normally be considered "inventory" became "stockpiles." A "sect" became a "cult." Since the documentary is itself a form of the media, it shows a great deal of interest in the manipulation and withholding of this information. "God help us, we want the press" even became a dire plea by the Branch Davidians...