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...said recently he started shopping at Keezers 25 years ago adding that he now brings his two sons, who are two and a half and seven years old, to the store "I am trying to start them off in the right tradition." Epps said, adding that Keezers" suits my traditionalist tastes...
These events in the Holy City are only samples of a troubling increase in sectarian violence involving ultra-Orthodox Jews, many of them members of Israel's numerous Hasidic groups.* Ever since the founding of Israel in 1948, traditionalist Jews who cluster in the Mea Shearim or Geula neighborhoods of northern Jerusalem have often stoned passing automobiles on the Sabbath and otherwise vented their wrath on those who violate God's law. But the recent outbursts reflect a new militancy on the part of extremists and a fundamental change in the relations of the city's religious...
...good Hieromonk's letter to the Editors, his dismay at the disrespect shown him and his abbot by certain students, presumably Harvard students, and how he indicted the entire University for intolerance and disregard for the ancient traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church. Now I am likewise a "traditionalist" Greek Orthodox monk, dressed in the manner of Hieromonk Auxentios. For over 12 years I have been visiting Harvard's sundry libraries, and therefore its campus, and never once have I encountered any of the hostilities decried by Fr. Auxentios. On the contrary, from the students, professors, and employees...
...Afterwards, from four to six in the afternoon, while most boys were playing stickball, Hadzi attended a special Greek school. This triggered his imagination, he says. As a result, while his work is clearly grounded in American Abstract Expressionism. Hadzi's concerns have been classical. A romantic and a traditionalist, he has devoted most of in career to mastering the ancient technique of bronze cast...
...West, they are forced to become what Abbot Chrysostomos calls "Western captives" or, as Father Florovsky said, "clandestine Orthodox thinkers, covered by the more acceptable cloak of the Russophile or Hellenophile." We either accommodate ourselves to the Western theological way of thinking or else. The best a traditionalist Orthodox scholar can hope for is a visiting appointment...