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...warp to the woof at Westminster: Where else can you find society matrons whooping it up with 4-H Clubbers, or vendors bellowing "Champagne here"? A vendor named Jerry hawks the catalog by calling out "Get your Bow-Wow Bible, your Doggy Diary, your Beagle Bugle, your Tibetan Terrier Torah, your...
...literal sense, the terms "fundamentalist" and "Orthodox" refer to very similar ideas. The word fundamentalist means someone who is very devout and believes that every word of their holy text is true. The term Orthodox refers to a religious sect of Judaism that closely follows the laws of the Torah, Both words have a very similar literal meaning. However, they have very different connotations. "Orthodox" connotes a legitimate religious sect; "fundamentalist" connotes fanaticism and terrorism. Thus, the devout Jew is seen as deeply religious, whereas the devout Moslem is seen as a fanatic and terrorist. Such semantic differences become more...
...suppose that there's an opening for someone to call Orthodox Jews like me "fundamentalists" because we take the Torah--Biblical and Rabbinic law--so seriously and without emendation. Perhaps Rita Lin needs to be reminded that these laws--which we obey seriously and without emendation--include loving ones neighbor, returning a lost object and giving charity to the poor. I remember what the rabbis used to tell me in the Orthodox yeshiva (school for higher Jewish education) in Israel that I attended for a year. One rabbi there explained to me once how it was wrong to borrow someone...
...deny that there are some so-called religious Jews out there who don't live up to these morals. But there is no denying that these ethical principles are exactly what our Torah is all about. Just look at our prophets. Just look at our legal codes. Any Jew who is mean-spirited and cruel is in flagrant violation of the spirit and the letter of the law, and that Jew is not an Orthodox Jew by any means of classification. After all, how could one be a truly Orthodox Jew, one who loves the Torah and its Divine Author...
Were these lovers of peace, these religiously observant men and women who could not sleep because, whether or not they agreed with the Prime Minister's politics, they were ashamed that a "religious" Jew had brought disgrace to the Torah by spilling blood--were these Orthodox Jews fanatics...